Surviving members of The Pogues paid tribute to their late singer and songwriter Shane MacGowan during his funeral on Friday (December 8) with a stirring performance of the band’s 1985 rendition of ...

NPR's Scott Simon explains why The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" is a holiday song for those who have troubles and ...

In 2016, George Michael died on Christmas Day, just as Wham!’s wistful “Last Christmas” was chiming on seemingly every radio station and at every holiday party. Now the voice of another beloved — if ...

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 New York ...

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. He was 65.

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. He was 65.Video above: ...

According to Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan — the Irish icon who died at 65 early Thursday — the story behind his band’s Christmas-in-the-drunk-tank classic “Fairytale of New York” began with Elvis ...

Shane MacGowan, the frontman of Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band The Pogues, died Thursday. He was 65. “It is with the deepest sorrow and heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of Shane MacGowan, ...

LONDON — Thousands of people lined the streets of Dublin on Friday to say goodbye to The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan as his coffin wound through the Irish capital before a small-town funeral ...

Shane MacGowan, singer of Celtic punk band the Pogues, has died. He was 65. His wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, shared the news on Instagram, writing, “There’s no way to describe the loss that I am ...