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POGUE MAHONE: KISS MY ARSE: THE STORY OF THE POGUES
Carol Clerk
The history of the Pogues from the beginnings up to the reunions.
Omnibus Press
ISBN 1846090083
2006
More info is here.
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RUM, SODOMY & THE LASH
Jeffrey T. Roesgen
Thoughts and info on Rum, Sodomy and the Lash combined with a sea-faring fictional narrative.
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
ISBN 0826429165
2008
More info is here.
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CONTEMPORARY MUSICIANS:
Profiles of the People in Music
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POGUES, THE: THE LOST DECADE
Anne Scanlon
A brief history of the Pogues up to 1988.
ISBN 0711914710
1988
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POGUETRY: THE LYRICS OF SHANE MACGOWAN
John Hewitt & Steve Pike (Shane MacGowan)
Faber and Faber Ltd.
ISBN 0571141986
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POGUETRY: THE ILLUSTRATED POGUES SONGBOOK
John Hewitt & Steve Pike (Shane MacGowan)
Faber and Faber Ltd.
ISBN 0571141986
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GUINNESS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC, THE
Guinness
Six Volumes
1992 & 1995
Offers not only an ungodly amount of data
about the Pogues, but also has ungodly amounts
of data about anyone remotely associated with
them (Kirsty MacColl, Steve Lillywhite,
Steeleye Span, etc)
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BEST OF THE POGUES, THE
The Pogues
Wise Publication
ISBN 0711929025
ISBN 0711929505
1992
Music Sales Corporation
ISBN 0711929025
1997
Warner Brothers Publications
ISBN 1859095399
1998
"Full piano/vocal arrangements of each
track from the hit album complete with lyrics
and guitar chord boxes."
See the Best Of entry in the LPs
section of the Discography for the
songs.
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SHANE MACGOWAN: THE LAST OF THE CELTIC SOUL REBELS
Ian O'Doherty
Blackwater Press
ISBN 0861215435
This is an unauthorized biography of
Shane. Shane (and the Friends
O' Shane fan club) discourage your
reading it.
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CULT ROCKERS
The Pogues get two or three pages of mention
in this book about bands with "cult
followings".
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BAD SEED:
THE BIOGRAPHY OF NICK SEED
Ian Johnston
Little Brown & Co.
ISBN 0316908339
1997
A biography of Nick Cave. Shane (and the
Pogues) get a page or two dedicated to
describing how they worked together (very
interesting reading - more detail about the NME
interview).
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A DRINK WITH SHANE MACGOWAN
Shane MacGowan
Victoria M. Clarke
Grove Press
ISBN 0802137903
2001
A conversation style biography between Shane
MacGowan and his (then) girlfriend Victoria
Clarke.
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Great wads of thanks to Michael Benchoff
for his unwitting assistance with this
section.
Your intrepid maintainer is
DzM.
