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Among the members of the city's Irish-American community who saw the show and visited the band backstage after the concert were film-maker Peter Dougherty and actor Matt Dillon: both later became friends with the Pogues and played important roles in the video for "Fairytale of New York".
- The song took over two years to write. Shane MacGowan performs dressed in a NYPD police uniform, at Brixton Academy on St Patrick's Day, March 17, 1987 | Getty Images.
- Shane MacGowan claims the song was the result of a bet with Elvis Costello. (Left) Shane MacGowan and bass player Cait O'Riordan in 1986 / (Right) Singer-songwriter Elvis Costello plays the guitar as O'Riordan looks on, 1986.
- Actor Matt Dillon is the police officer who leads Shane MacGowan into the "drunk tank" in the video. BAFTA- and Oscar-nominated actor Matt Dillon is a friend of Shane MacGowan, and was a huge Pogues fan from the very beginning.
- There is no such thing as the 'NYPD choir' Members of the New York Police Department's Pipes and Drums of the Emerald Society playing in Brooklyn, 2007 | Getty Images.
Dec 8, 2023 · Out front in the audience at their New York gig, were two people who would be a major asset to the song: actor Matt Dillon who made a cameo appearance as a cop in the song’s video and filmmaker and fan Peter Dougherty, who would direct the video.
- Neil Crossley
Nov 30, 2023 · Matt Dillon plays a police officer who arrests MacGowan and takes him to the cells. MacGowan and the band were drinking throughout the shoot, and the police were concerned about their increasingly rowdy behaviour.
- Tom Eames
Dec 7, 2020 · After their debut at a club called the World, their backstage visitors included Peter Dougherty, who came to direct the video for Fairytale of New York, and the actor Matt Dillon, who appeared...
Nov 30, 2023 · Actor Matt Dillon and Pogues singer Shane MacGowan on filming the somewhat chaotic Fairytale Of New York video. The video was shot in a real New York police station and featured a...
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Dec 24, 2017 · Fairytale of New York tells the story of a down-on-their-luck Irish couple who have immigrated to the Big Apple. When he — the narrator in the drunk tank — “first held (her) hand on that cold Christmas Eve”, he had “promised Broadway was waiting” for her.
