In June 1986, then-rising filmmaker Terry George went to the first concert played in New York City by the Irish folk group called The Pogues who were gaining cult status in Britain. It proved to be ...
In his biography A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan English music journalist Richard Balls noted that, during the ...
Shane MacGowan, the sandpapery-voiced former Pogues frontman who served as the bridge between traditional Irish folk music and punk rock, died on Thursday at the age of 65. MacGowan’s wife, Victoria ...
University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Known for his music with The Pogues, and perhaps the most important Irish writer since James Joyce, the venerated and ...
Shane MacGowan, the singer-songwriter and frontman of “Celtic Punk” band The Pogues, best known for the Christmas ballad “Fairytale of New York,” died Thursday, his family said. He was 65. “It is with ...