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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 5-11

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Oct. 5-11 include Radiohead singer Thom Yorke, rapper Cardi B and actor-screenwriter Matt Damon

The Independent UK

“It was wonderful, ecstatic, thrilling, boring, horrible, oppressive, heartbreaking." The Pogues' Jem Finer on life in a band with the "maddening" Shane MacGowan

The Pogues' Jem Finer recalls life in the original line-up

Louder

“There certainly was a fair amount of hard drinking. But there was a degree of professionalism, if hard to recognise at times”: How The Pogues made a folk-punk classic in Rum, Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues’ second album Rum, Sodomy & The Lash remains the late Shane MacGowan’s finest moment

Louder

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The Pogues say Shane MacGowan’s ‘spirit lives on’ in album anniversary gigs

The band will perform second album Rum, Sodomy & The Lash in full in May 2025 after celebrating the 40th anniversary of Red Roses For Me this year.

Evening Standard

The Pogues announce first headline tour in 10 years

Celtic rock band will be joined by ‘special guests’ for their shows celebrating the 40th anniversary of their second album, ‘Rum Sodomy and The Lash’

The Independent UK

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 6-12

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Oct. 6-12 include rapper Cardi B, actor-screenwriter Matt Damon and singer David Lee Roth of Van Halen

The Independent UK

How The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl made Fairytale of New York

A drunken hymn for those with broken dreams and abandoned hope

The Independent UK

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Fairytale of New York: How The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl made the Christmas classic

A drunken hymn for those with broken dreams and abandoned hope

The Independent UK

Shane MacGowan: the poet-musician of dereliction who became a mythic figure

The former Pogues frontman created, for a brief period, songs of incisive beauty before addiction led to his ejection from the band, although his genius shone once more with the Popes

The Guardian - UK

‘I wanted to do something useful’: the teenager who drew edible maps for Australia’s wartime pilots

Rulers and rice paper became tools of war for a young cartographer whose work is mapped out in a new collection donated to Queensland State Library

The Guardian - AU

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 8-14

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Oct_ 8-14 include singer Usher, actor Hugh Jackman and TV personality Stacy Keibler from “Dancing with the Stars.”

The Independent UK

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 9-15

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Oct. 9-15 include actor Hugh Jackman, TV host Chris Wallace and singer Kimberly Schlapman of Little Big Town

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