Click for a guide to Pogues albums. They even got into The Face - and almost made folk fashionable for a while. Predictably though, The Pogues' chainsaw energy divided the folk fraternity ...

Irish folk band The Pogues joined forces with pop singer Kirsty Maccoll in 1987 for Fairytale of New York, one of the most well-known and beloved modern Christmas standards in the UK. Denied ...