Thirty-six years ago today, one of the most influential folk musicians in the United Kingdom died at the age of 74.

“Ewan MacColl didn’t want to be from Salford, from what he thought of as a filthy, industrial place,” says Peggy Seeger, the late singer-songwriter’s widow. “He used to insist later he came from ...

Shane MacGowan seemed like the stuff of legend even at the height of his powers in the 1980s, the decade in which he fronted Irish folk-rock outfit the Pogues. MacGowan, who died Thursday at age 65, ...

Dubliners burst into spontaneous renditions of Dirty Old Town and Fairytale of New York by The Pogues awaiting the funeral procession of the band’s beloved frontman Shane MacGowan. The cortege will ...

With the Pogues, singer, songwriter, and rock & roll icon Shane MacGowan connected the sound and spirit of punk with his Irish roots to create one of the most distinctive bands of the past 40 years.