Dubliners burst into spontaneous renditions of Dirty Old Town and Fairytale of New York by The Pogues awaiting the funeral procession of the band’s beloved frontman Shane MacGowan. The cortege will ...

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Regarded for his wrenching, joyful lyricism as a bard of all things Irish, Shane MacGowan – the singer-songwriter known mostly for his work as frontman of the Celtic punk phenomenon the Pogues – was ...

Pete Doherty made a rare TV appearance on Channel 4 comedy talk show The Last Leg on Friday night (24 February). The Libertines frontman, 43, performed The Pogues’ 1985 classic “Dirty Old Town”, ...

Shane MacGowan onstage with the Pogues in 1986. Paul Natkin/Getty Images Shane MacGowan, The Pogues founder and singer-songwriter who in the 1980s melded Irish musical traditions with the ferocious ...