The Pogues frontman, who died Thursday at 65, joined punk to traditional Irish music, establishing himself and the group as its loud and soused heirs. By Gavin Edwards Shane MacGowan, the principal ...
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, ...
For most people, the Pogues’ Christmas classic “Fairytale of New York” brings holiday cheer. But for the sister of late ...
Whatever the reality, the song was conceived in 1985 by The Pogues banjo player Jem Finer and MacGowan. Finer came up with ...
One what would have been the 68th birtnday of The Pogues singer Shane MacGowan, we remember the outstanding legacy of this ...
The co-penned Shane MacGowan song Fairytale Of New York is one of the best known Christmas songs blaring out from speakers all across the UK and Ireland every festive season. But for his sister ...
For most people, Chiristmas was a time for joyful songs. Shane MacGowan went a different route. MacGowan, the lead singer of the Pogues, had plenty of hits, but the one that gets the most airplay, at ...
It’s that time of year again – no, we’re not talking about filling our homes with gaudy Christmas decorations and watching ...
So here we are, not particularly shocked that Shane MacGowan is gone — the man gargled whiskey for decades, and recent hospital photos were not encouraging — and now we have to put up with another ...
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, ...
The world is mourning the death of Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan, the artist behind songs such as “Fairytale of New York” and “The Old Main Drag”. Clarke said that MacGowan, 65, died from pneumonia, ...
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, ...