I think you're confusing The Pogues and Shane McGowan.
Several of the band were born in Ireland.
Other members had Irish parents who had emigrated to England including Shane's parents who were from Dublin and Tipperary.
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Several of the band were born in Ireland.
Other members had Irish parents who had emigrated to England including Shane's parents who were from Dublin and Tipperary.
toffee balls
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Spider was AmericanI think you're confusing The Pogues and Shane McGowan.
Several of the band were born in Ireland.
Other members had Irish parents who had emigrated to England including Shane's parents who were from Dublin and Tipperary.
James was from Worsley and another band member was from Manchester too.
The point I made that he was fairly well to do and from London.
I picked this up from Louis Theroux’s autobiography who went to the same school as him
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I remember having tickets for them in Edinburgh when Shane went awol
Was replaced by Strummer so wasn't too shabby a gig
Still sad news
Was replaced by Strummer so wasn't too shabby a gig
Still sad news
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Yep, Westminster school. I know Theroux was at school with Adam Buxton, who's also from a pretty posh background.Spider was American
James was from Worsley and another band member was from Manchester too.
The point I made that he was fairly well to do and from London.
I picked this up from Louis Theroux’s autobiography who went to the same school as him
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As was Joe Strummer.Yep, Westminster school. I know Theroux was at school with Adam Buxton, who's also from a pretty posh background.
Punk - seen as a working class movement, The Pistols apart, was fairly middle class kids playing rebellion.
Billy Idol and Tony James in Generation X too (Billy's dad moved the family to Long Island, New York when he was around 4 - went with a southern accent and came back aged 9 with a Yank accent!)
Lots of them being art school students.....
I remember having a disagreement with a lad at work who insisted MacGowan was Irish born and I insisted he was a cockney. The lad wouldn't have it, " listen to him singing in an Irish accent" he claimed....
toffee balls
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Ps never forgive the Irish for nicking the moral rights to Dirty Old TownGreat poet .
Not a lot of people are aware he went to private school in Westminster and was born well a truly into upper middle class.
In fact , a bit like Rod Stewart being Scottish, The Pogues links to Ireland are tentative at best.
Its funny how you associate songs with places or countries .Ps never forgive the Irish for nicking the moral rights to Dirty Old Town
Fields of Athenry is one.
I always though those songs by Eric Bogle were either Irish or Scottish until I started listening to the words.
1885 he's pickled himselfHasn't he been seriously ill since about 1985?
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Great poet .
Not a lot of people are aware he went to private school in Westminster and was born well a truly into upper middle class.
In fact , a bit like Rod Stewart being Scottish, The Pogues links to Ireland are tentative at best.
To be sure to be sure