Surviving members of The Pogues paid tribute to their late singer and songwriter Shane MacGowan during his funeral on Friday (December 8) with a stirring performance of the band’s 1985 rendition of ...

The inside story of an evergreen Christmas classic, The Pogues' "Fairytale Of New York", told by the band themselves ...

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 ...

Elvis Costello loved the Pogues in the 1980s. The band’s opinions of Costello, however, were mixed. Bassist Cait O’Riordan began a 16-year relationship with Costello after he produced the beloved ...

Shane MacGowan, the frontman of Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band The Pogues, died Thursday. He was 65. “It is with the deepest sorrow and heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of Shane MacGowan, ...

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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: ...

According to Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan — the Irish icon who died at 65 early Thursday — the story behind his band’s Christmas-in-the-drunk-tank classic “Fairytale of New York” began with Elvis ...

LONDON — 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.

LONDON — Shane MacGowan, the boozy, rabble-rousing singer and chief songwriter of The Pogues, who infused traditional Irish music with the energy and spirit of punk, died Thursday, his family said. He ...

Chicago Review Press, 416 pp., $18.95. It’s interesting to note that, despite their status as one of the contemporary groups most identified with traditional Irish music, none of the members of the ...

When the topic of the Pogues comes up in casual conversation, the first thought isn’t necessarily the sound of their guitars. More likely it has something to do with singer Shane MacGowan’s sneering ...