Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elvis Costello loved the Pogues in the 1980s. The band’s opinions of Costello, however, were mixed. Bassist Cait O’Riordan began a ...

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 ...

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If you want to have some FUN, find yourself an Irish bar—Boston and New York City are best, but they’re everywhere. Get a tall glass of Guinness (with that creamy head) and a few shots of Bushmills, ...

Between 1984 and 1986, the Pogues released some of their best material: their 1984 debut Red Roses for Me and Rum Sodomy & the Lash, produced by Elvis Costello, which combined punk, traditional Irish ...