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LONDON (AP) — 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 ...

On the front side of the album, the band pose surrounding an apparition-like portrait of President John F. Kennedy, while the back sees original bassist Cait O’Riordan clasping a brown paper ...

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 ...

The Pogues singer, who died Thursday, took traditional Irish music in a new direction. Most people in Ireland loved him for it. By Ed O’Loughlin Reporting from Dublin Christmas came early this year in ...

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 ...

MacGowan was an Irish kid who grew up in England, and the songs he wrote and sang were a furious fusion of folk and punk. His band, The Pogues, was once described as a barroom brawl with instruments.

The Observer just published an interview with David Simon, the creator of The Wire and other HBO series including Treme, The Deuce, Show Me a Hero, We Own This City, and more. The main focus is on how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andrew Ranken, drummer and founding member of the Pogues, has died at 72. (Shirlaine Forrest / WireImage / Getty Images) Andrew ...

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