Celtic folk-punk singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan, the beloved chain-smoking, hard-drinking longtime frontman of The Pogues, has died at the age of 65, his wife Victoria Mary Clarke said in an ...

By Matt Phillips Shane MacGowan, the brilliant but chaotic songwriter who as frontman for the Pogues reinvigorated interest in Irish music in the 1980s by harnessing it to the propulsive power of ...

Born in Kent, MacGowan was the son of Irish immigrants and fronted The Pogues from 1982 until their break-up in 2014 The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has died aged 65, following a recent ...

Shane MacGowan, the Pogues frontman and singer behind the classic Christmas hit "Fairytale of New York," has died. He was 65. The influential Irish musician's death was announced on the band’s ...

Victoria admitted she had been preparing for Shane's death since the 80s after many doctors gave the rock star only months to ...

According to Shane MacGowan, the seeds of Fairytale Of New York were sown when Elvis Costello bet him he couldn't write a yuletide hit without selling out. Appropriately for a song that centres ...

City Gardens. 1986. One of the best shows I ever worked. Thank you Shane. RIP.” Shane MacGowan spoke of his musical influences in his last TV appearance before his death aged 65. The Pogues star ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Dublin: Shane MacGowan, the London-Irish punk who transformed Irish traditional music with the Pogues and penned some of the 1980s ...

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.

The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has died aged 65, following a recent hospital stay after being diagnosed with encephalitis. The singer-songwriter, whose hits include 1987's Fairytale of New ...

Shane MacGowan, the frontman and songwriter of the Irish punk band the Pogues, died this morning (November 30), BBC News reports, citing an Instagram post by his wife, Victoria Mary Clarke.

Shane MacGowan, a songwriter and singer who channeled an Irish brand of defiance and vulnerability as frontman of the Celtic punk band the Pogues in the 1980s but whose own addictions drove him ...