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The Pogues: It's Really Pogue, Man

Richard Grabel, Creem, September 1986

TALKING TO Shane MacGowan, singer and lyricist with a spirited bunch of North London Irish lunatics called the Pogues – trying to decipher the words buried in the stream of mumbling and riotous laughter that pours from his mouth – is a bit of an experience.

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