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The singer brought a sound and instrumentation that borrowed heavily from Irish traditional music, but played with a thoroughly modern punk-rock fury. It was a genre that really didn’t exist until MacGowan landed there, writes Jim Sullivan.
I love the way Shane talks about Irish Catholicism because I think that is something that is absolutely essential to who he is says Ann Scanlon, author of The Pogues - The Lost Decade.