the Pogues released six albums: Red Roses for Me, Rum Sodomy & the Lash, If I Should Fall from Grace with God, Peace and Love, Hell's Ditch, Waiting for Herb and Pogue Mahone. The Pogues earned ...

The Pogues never made another album, but they left dozens of classic songs in their 12-year recording career. These are the essentials. 10. "Summer in Siam" (From Hell's Ditch, 1990) By 1990 the ...

Pogues songs like “Dirty Old Town ... 1988’s “If I Should Fall From Grace With God,” and “Hell’s Ditch,” released in 1990, before the band fired MacGowan for his out-of ...

The Pogues are a popular Irish folk rock band ... Following their next album, Hell's Ditch, MacGowan and the band parted company in 1991. With his departure, the band was thrown into a state ...

Shortening its name to the Pogues after threats of radio boycotts ... s “Peace and Love” (No. 5 U.K.) and 1990’s “Hell’s Ditch” (No. 12 U.K.), the band finally expelled MacGowan ...

Born in Kent to Irish immigrant parents, MacGowan formed The Pogues, initially known for two years as Pogue ... Peace And Love followed in 1989, before the release of 1990’s Hell’s Ditch, which was ...

The singer had previously missed the first dates of The Pogues’s 1988 American tour, impacting their ability to promote their album Hell’s Ditch. The last straw for MacGowan in the band came a ...

Members of the Pogues in 1984. (L to R) Shane MacGowan, Cait O'Riordan, Andrew Rankin, Jem Finer, Spider Stacy, James Fearnley. (Credit: Steve Rapport/Getty Images) Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan ...

MacGowan took lyrical inspiration from transgressive and rebellious writers like Jean Genet and Federico García Lorca, both of whom are name-checked on The Pogues’ 1990 album, Hell’s Ditch.

MacGowan’s gutter-drenched vocals and lyrics penetrated the early ’80s London punk scene and the traditional Irish folk and rock spouted by The Pogues. Celtic folk stompers. Irish punks.