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In a BBC radio documentary about “Dirty Old Town”, Professor Ben Harker (author of Class Act: The Cultural and Political Life of Ewan MacColl, 2007, Pluto Press) explains that although MacColl later claimed the song was written as an interlude "to cover an awkward scene change", studying the script of the play Landscape with Chimneys ...
The remastered disc added six bonus tracks, including the entirety of the Poguetry in Motion EP and the B-sides to "Dirty Old Town" – "A Pistol for Paddy Garcia" on seven-inch and "The Parting Glass" on twelve-inch singles. The reissue included liner notes by David Quantick and a poem about the Pogues by Tom Waits. [21]
Ewan MacColl wrote "Dirty Old Town" as a tribute to his hometown of Salford, Lancashire, back in 1949. The Dubliners popularized the tune 20 years later, but after the Pogues cut the song, "Dirty ...
The Best of the Pogues is a greatest hits album by the Pogues, released in September 1991. ... Uileann pipes on "Dirty Old Town" and "The Body of an American"
“The Pogues are a crudely affecting bunch of romantics,” John Leland wrote in a 1985 SPIN singles column reviewing “Dirty Old Town,” the hit Ewan MacColl cover from Rum Sodomy & the Lash. 1.
The Pogues, “Dirty Old Town” (1985) As modern-day interpreters of socially-minded British folk and folklore, the Pogues had no rival. What’s most fascinating about their country-esque cover ...
The Pogues are an English or Anglo-Irish [a] Celtic punk band founded in King's Cross, London, in 1982, [1] by Shane MacGowan, Spider Stacy and Jem Finer. [2] Originally named Pogue Mahone—an anglicisation by James Joyce of the Irish phrase póg mo thóin, meaning "kiss my arse"—the band soon added more members, including James Fearnley and Cait O'Riordain, and built a reputation playing ...
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