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 ...

In 2016, George Michael died on Christmas Day, just as Wham!’s wistful “Last Christmas” was chiming on seemingly every radio station and at every holiday party. Now the voice of another beloved — if ...

LONDON, UK — 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 ...

Shane MacGowan’s last wish couldn’t have been more fitting – he wanted his mourners to have a marathon drunken night on him. The Pogues’ punk poet, who died aged 65 from pneumonia after months of ill ...

Shane MacGowan, the brilliant but chaotic songwriter who as frontman for the Pogues reinvigorated interest in Irish music in the 1980s by harnessing it to the propulsive power of punk rock, died ...

Shane MacGowan, the frontman of the Irish punk-folk band The Pogues, died of pneumonia, his wife has revealed. The “Fairytale of New York” songwriter died at 3 a.m. Thursday with his wife and family ...

"They Gave The Walls A Talking" at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum explores the evolution of The Pogues and pays tribute to the late Shane MacGowan. EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin has ...

Shane MacGowan, the hard-driving poet and frontman of the Anglo-Celtic band The Pogues, “redefined what both punk and Irish traditional music could mean,” according to a UMass Lowell expert available ...

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 was 65.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — Shane MacGowan, the boozy, ...