Banjo player, folk music aficionado and actor/comedian Billy Connolly once described The Dubliners as “folk music’s Rolling Stones”. If that’s the case, then The Pogues were its Sex Pistols: ...
The Pogues frontman, who died Thursday at 65, joined punk to traditional Irish music, establishing himself and the group as its loud and soused heirs. By Gavin Edwards Shane MacGowan, the principal ...
In the summer of 2000, Shane MacGowan played The Harp, the Irish pub on Causeway Street. By then, fans were well aware of his mounting health problems. Infamous for his binge drinking, the growling ...
It is often a sticky enterprise for musicians to make some sort of boast that involves God. “We’re more popular than Jesus now,” John Lennon infamously said in a 1966 interview, causing Americans in ...
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The Pogues: The trailblazing band that fused punk attitude and Irish folk
The Pogues, formed in London in 1982, stand as a legendary testament to the creative possibilities of music. This Anglo-Irish ...
NENAGH, Ireland (Reuters) -Shane MacGowan's friends and family sang and danced in the aisles to a rousing rendition of The Pogues' Christmas anthem "Fairytale of New York" at a joyous funeral marking ...
The Clash‘s Joe Strummer called the late Shane MacGowan one of the best lyricists of the 20th century. MacGowan’s gutter-drenched vocals and lyrics penetrated the early ’80s London punk scene and the ...
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