Tag: Pogues, The (Music Group)

The Real Story Behind Shane MacGowan’s ‘Boys of the N.Y.P.D. Choir’

Shane MacGowan’s timeless love letter to New York announces itself from a cockeyed vantage — “It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank” — before name-checking the city’s many riches: Frank Sinatra, Broadway, cars big as bars and rivers of gold. “Fairytale of New York” also immortalizes a specific group of people doing a […]

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Shane MacGowan, Pogues Songwriter Who Fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, Dies at 65

Shane MacGowan, the brilliant but chaotic former songwriter and frontman for the Pogues who reinvigorated interest in Irish music in the 1980s by harnessing it to the propulsive power of punk rock, has died. He was 65. Mr. MacGowan’s wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, announced his death on Instagram. She did not provide additional details. A […]

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