Singer and songwriter Shane MacGowan, who was immortalized in the 2020 documentary Crock Of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan, has died at the age of 65. He was recently hospitalized after being ...

LONDON — 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.

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Pogues band member and “Fairytale Of New York” co-writer Jem Finer discussed the song’s origin in a 1988 interview with NME. “I had written two songs complete with tunes,” he said. “One had a good ...

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 ...

Nobody in the history of music ever sounded quite as decadently downtrodden (or whiskey-drowned, -sodden) as Shane MacGowan on “Fairytale of New York,” the soppy Christmas carol the Pogues‘ first ...

The Pogues are reissuing their drunk tank Christmas classic, “Fairytale of New York,” on seven-inch vinyl with proceeds benefiting a charity long supported by late frontman Shane MacGowan. The new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MacGowan at 19, when editor of punk rock magazine Bondage, in 1977 - Sydney O'Meara/Getty Images Shane MacGowan, who has died aged ...

Shane MacGowan, famed frontman of Anglo-Irish punk band The Pogues, died on Thursday, according to a social media statement from the band and confirmed by his wife Victoria Mary Clarke. MacGowan had ...

Irish musician Shane MacGowan, who formed the influential punk band The Pogues, best known for '80s hit "Fairytale of New York," has died. He was 65. MacGowan died in the early hours of Thursday with ...