It's a sad day for fans of The Pogues. Shane McGowan, the longtime frontman of the punk band, died at the age of 65, per a statement from his family on The Pogues' Instagram page. "It is with the ...

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 ...

Shane MacGowan at the family home in Nenagh, Tipperary, Ireland, in 1997. (Martyn Goodacre / Getty Images) Shane MacGowan seemed like the stuff of legend even at the height of his powers in the 1980s, ...

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, ...

Dirty Old Town; The Sunnyside Of The Street; If I Should Fall From Grace With God; The Irish Rover; Rain Street; A Pair Of Brown Eyes; Boys From The County Hell; Fairytale Of New York; Body Of An ...

Have you ever heard a better opening to a song than that one, from “Fairytale of New York” by MacGowan’s Irish folk-punk band, the Pogues? In just four lines, he’s drawn an indelible scene with ...

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.Video above: ...

Irish-British folk-punk band The Pogues blew out of London in the early 1980s. Spider Stacy, a New Orleans resident since 2010, was a Pogue from the start, playing a distinctly Irish instrument, the ...

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 ...

Shane MacGowan seemed like the stuff of legend even at the height of his powers in the 1980s, the decade in which he fronted Irish folk-rock outfit the Pogues. MacGowan, who died Thursday at age 65, ...