For a man who disliked American-inflected pop, Ewan MacColl wrote some matchless international hits. “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”, covered by the Chicago soulstress Roberta Flack, is as ...
Pete Doherty made a rare TV appearance on Channel 4 comedy talk show The Last Leg on Friday night (24 February). The Libertines frontman, 43, performed The Pogues’ 1985 classic “Dirty Old Town”, ...
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 ...