In his biography A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan English music journalist Richard Balls noted that, during the dark days of the late '80s, The Pogues' iconic frontman would gobble ...
Shane MacGowan - for it was he - weaved The Pogues from low dives into legend. In the greedy, red-braced '80s - a time before world music and new acoustic music, when folk music was at its most ...
The Pogues are a band of mixed Irish and English background, playing traditional Irish music with influences from punk rock, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan. They reached ...