Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan was born on Christmas day in 1957 in Kent, England, and on his 30th birthday, he narrowly missed landing the Christmas No. 1 on the UK charts with “Fairytale of New York ...
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 ...
The Pogues were a punk band that just happened to employ traditional Irish instruments like accordion, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, tin whistle and uilleann pipes in their songs. They were also an expert ...
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Elvis Costello loved the Pogues in the 1980s. The band’s opinions of ...
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