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The Very Best of the Pogues is a greatest hits album by The Pogues, released in April 2001. Track listing. Dirty Old Town" (Ewan MacColl)
The Best of the Pogues is a greatest hits album by the Pogues, released in September 1991.. The album was dedicated to the memory of Deborah Korner – the partner of Pogues drummer Andrew Ranken – who died a few months before the album's release.
The Pogues are an English or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and others, founded in King's Cross, London in 1982, [1] as Pogue Mahone – the anglicisation of the Irish Gaelic póg mo thóin, meaning 'kiss my arse'.
Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan was born on Christmas day in 1957 in Kent, England, and on his 30th birthday, he narrowly missed landing the Christmas No. 1 on the UK charts with “Fairytale of ...
The Pogues, “Dirty Old Town” (1985) As modern-day interpreters of socially-minded British folk and folklore, the Pogues had no rival. What’s most fascinating about their country-esque cover ...
The Pogues are an English or Anglo-Irish [a] Celtic punk band founded in King's Cross, London, in 1982, [1] by Shane MacGowan, Spider Stacy and Jem Finer. [2] Originally named Pogue Mahone—an anglicisation by James Joyce of the Irish phrase póg mo thóin, meaning "kiss my arse"—the band fused Irish traditional music with punk rock influences.
The Pogues, "Fairytale of New York" According to The Pogues' lead singer, Shane MacGowan, this anti-Christmas anthem started out as a bet. We love a good anti-Christmas anthem.
The Pogues performing in Munich in 2011. From left to right: Philip Chevron, James Fearnley, Andrew Ranken, Shane MacGowan, Darryl Hunt, Spider Stacy and Jem Finer. The Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band the Pogues have recorded songs for seven studio albums as well as one extended play (EP), twenty singles, and various other projects.