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 ...

Pogues members reunited as his backing band and Johnny Depp played rhythm guitar. A man of endless contradictions, MacGowan started life not in Ireland but its spiritual opposite: Royal Tunbridge ...

The Irish-American officers of the New York Police Department Pipes and Drums band had never heard of The Pogues on the night ... was another problem. Group members only knew a handful of Irish ...

Born in Kent, MacGowan was the son of Irish immigrants and fronted The Pogues from 1982 until their break-up in 2014. He had formed the Irish punk band Pogue Mahone, later shortened to The Pogues ...