"The passion and deep intensity of his music and lyrics is unmatched by all but the very best in the ... they'll be singing Shane's songs 100 years from now." In May, MacGowan's wife, Victoria ...

Thousands of mourners converged on St. Mary of the Rosary Church in Nenagh, Ireland, on Friday to pay their respects to the late Pogues frontman, Shane ... have his more famous songs played ...

Though she had few big commercial successes - the nearest thing was her duet with Shane MacGowan on the Christmas classic Fairytale Of New York - she was hugely and rightly respected, and she ...

The songs of The Pogues are what happens when rural folk songs are hit over the head by the amphetamine punk spirit of 70s London. But they are more than that. These "gutter hymns" of the Irish ...

Springsteen surprised his old pal MacGowan at his Dublin home before his show at the RDS with The E Street Band in May last ...

Rock legend Bruce Springsteen has written some of the most iconic songs of all time, but he reveals that his own songwriting ...

He was best known for hits including 1987's Fairytale of New York and A Pair of Brown Eyes. U2 frontman Bono shared a sketch of the star on X/Twitter, writing: "Shane MacGowan's songs were perfect ...