The Pogues’ unique arrangements of age-old Irish and English tunes helped break the band worldwide — “The Irish Rover,” “Whiskey in the Jar,” and “Dirty Old Town.” The fresh take on a catalog of ...

Dubliners burst into spontaneous renditions of Dirty Old Town and Fairytale of New York by The Pogues awaiting the funeral procession of the band’s beloved frontman Shane MacGowan. The cortege will ...

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 post Mourners Honor Shane MacGowan by Singing Pogues Songs on the Streets of Dublin: Watch appeared first on Consequence. As captured in videos posted on social media, fans who had been waiting on ...

Regarded for his wrenching, joyful lyricism as a bard of all things Irish, Shane MacGowan – the singer-songwriter known mostly for his work as frontman of the Celtic punk phenomenon the Pogues – was ...

Shane MacGowan was a famously hard-drinking but brilliant musician who shot to fame in the 1980s with the folk punk band The Pogues. Shane MacGowan, irascible frontman of The Pogues, has died at age ...

The hard-drinking singer-songwriter penned the dark holiday classic 'Fairytale of New York' and was the subject of Julien Temple's Johnny Depp-produced 2020 documentary 'Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds ...

Shane McGowan, frontman for The Pogues, passed away on November 30, 2023, after a long illness. Today we celebrate his long and illustrious career and most importantly his spectacular songs. MacGowan, ...

Shane MacGowan, the hard-drinking frontman for Irish punk band The Pogues, has died. He was 65 years old. His wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, announced his death Thursday morning. No official cause of ...