Fairytale of New York Censored!

The mother of late singer Kirsty MacColl has branded BBC Radio 1 "pathetic" for banning the word "faggot" from her hit Fairytale Of New York.

The words appear in a verse where she and co-star Shane MacGowan insult each other.

"You're a bum, you're a punk, you're an old slut on junk, lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed," he says.

"You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot, Happy Christmas your arse, I pray God it's our last," she replies.

MacColl's duet with the Pogues star is heading up the charts again this Christmas.

But Radio 1 has decided to bleep out the word "faggot" because it might offend listeners.

She told BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast the move was "pathetic" because the language reflected the characters it describes.

"Today we have a lot of gratuitous vulgarity and 'f****** and whatever' from people all over, which I think is quite unnecessary. But these are characters and they speak like that," she said.

"It's like a play and it's very amusing and sad, and it's a great song."

Racheeeee - what is the Beeb playing at?

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They are clearly playing characters in that song.

Leave it to the BBC

Then again, everytime they ban something it sells more copies Or, I guess I'm dating myself... gets more downloads

I had no idea she died until this post. I did a search... what a tragic way to die!!! for her sons.

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Posted by Tah-wee-ZAH

I had no idea she died until this post. I did a search... what a tragic way to die!!! for her sons.

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That is ridiculous. I hate people that find everything offensive and want a politically correct world. i guess that word was okay for the first 20 years but is now sooo offensive. I shouldn't be surprised this is the radio station that bleeped out the word mother but not fu**er. When you put those two words together mother is more offensive