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The albums produced by Steve Lillywhite you need to know, and one to avoid
By Alex Burrows published
Producer Steve Lillywhite has his fingerprints all over a number of top rock, post-punk, new wave and art-rock albums

The Pogues announce expanded 40th anniversary edition of their classic 1985 album Rum Sodomy & The Lash
By Paul Brannigan published
Rum Sodomy & The Lash is getting another lash

“It was wonderful, boring, horrible, heartbreaking": Life with Shane MacGowan
By Paul Brannigan published
The Pogues' Jem Finer recalls life in the original line-up

“There certainly was a fair amount of hard drinking. But there was a degree of professionalism, if hard to recognise at times”: How The Pogues made a folk-punk classic in Rum, Sodomy & The Lash
By Alex Burrows published
The Pogues’ second album Rum, Sodomy & The Lash remains the late Shane MacGowan’s finest moment

Nadine Shah, Lankum's Darragh Lynch, Lisa O'Neill among guest vocalists joining The Pogues for their first UK headline tour in 13 years
By Paul Brannigan published
The Pogues reveal guest vocalists joining them for their 40th anniversary Rum Sodomy & The Lash tour in May

How Jimi Hendrix became an unlikely influence upon Irish folk-punk legends The Pogues
By Paul Brannigan published
Shane MacGowan and Spider Stacy loved Jimi Hendrix, but The Pogues were never going to sound like Seattle's legendary guitar hero

The Pogues announce first UK headline tour in 13 years
By Paul Brannigan published
London-Irish folk-punk group to tour for the first time since the death of former frontman Shane MacGowan

When Nick Cave first met Shane MacGowan
By Paul Brannigan published
Nick Cave and the late Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan were great friends: here's how their friendship began

Shane MacGowan: Music critic extraordinaire
By Paul Brannigan published
Shane MacGowan didn't hold back when asked to review the music of his peers

“He would do crazy things like take 100 tabs of acid in a day then jump out of the window of a moving taxi, or paint himself blue": Shane MacGowan's wife Victoria Clarke on the unorthodox, unbreakable love she shared with The Pogues' late frontman
By Paul Brannigan published
Victoria Clarke's four decades-long relationship with The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan wasn't always easy, but amid the chaos their love was pure
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