In 1989, NME writers James Brown and Sean O'Hagan took Nick Cave, The Fall's Mark E Smith, and The Pogues' Shane MacGowan to the Montague Arms in New Cross, south London, for a 'pop summit': the ...

Victoria Mary Clarke, the widow of Shane MacGowan, has honored her late husband on the first anniversary of his passing. The iconic Pogues frontman died a year ago today at the age of 65. For Victoria ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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, ...

When Shane MacGowan died in November 2023, he left a great, big, romantic poet-shaped hole in music. Now, a year later, the late Irish songwriter’s band, the Pogues, have announced their first tour ...

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. “It is with ...

NEW YORK — It’s a minor miracle that Shane MacGowan, the Irish singer and world-class inebriate, survived to age 65. It’s a tragedy that his ferocious contemporary, Sinead O’Connor, never got to see ...

Sinéad O’Connor and Shane MacGowan, two Irish musicians, both died in 2023; Sinéad on July 26 and Shane on Nov. 30. Losing one of these legends would have been tragic, but seeing them depart within ...