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• Glen Hansard was a singer, songwriter and, to many in the Irish music community, a kind friend.
• At the funeral of Shane MacGowan, his cover of Fairytale of New York had the mourners in attendance dancing in the aisles.
• In June 1979, a single called "Ready 'n' Steady" by an artist listed only as "D.A." spent three weeks on Billboard's Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart, peaking at number… READ THE REST I wish there was a better name for weirdly paternalistic "white guy goes to Africa" pop than, well, all that.