Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues . With beauty, lyricism, and great candor, Fearnley tells the story of how the band watched helplessly as their singer descended into a dark and isolated world of drugs and alcohol, and sets forth the increasingly desperate measures they were forced to take. Here Comes Everybody is a memoir w
| Title | : | Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.86 (587 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1556529503 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-01 |
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The Pogues injected the fury of punk into Irish folk music and gave the world the troubled, iconic, darkly romantic songwriter Shane MacGowan. Here Comes Everybody is a memoir written by founding member and accordion player James Fearnley, drawn from his personal experiences and the series of journals and correspondence he kept throughout the band’s career. Fearnley describes the coalescence of a disparate collection of vagabonds living in the squats of London’s Kings Cross, with, at its center, the charismatic MacGowan and his idea of turning Irish traditional music on its head. With beauty, lyricism, and great candor, Fearnley tells the story of how the band watched helplessly as their singer descended into a dark and isolated world of drugs and alcohol, and sets forth the increasingly desperate measures they were forced to take.
Editorial : From Booklist The Celtic punk band, the Pogues, is famous for many reasons, but two in particular stand out: distinctive melding of punk ferocity and traditional Irish music and jug-eared Shane MacGowan, its heavy-drinking, originally dentally-challenged front man. Founding member and accordionist Fearnley begins his entertaining and rollicking memoir as MacGowan is booted from the group as a result of his fickle and increasingly odd behavior (he rejoined later). The level-headed Fearnley also recalls the band members’ poverty-stricken early years, their first “chaotic” gig at the Pindar of Wakefield in London in 1982, their British and Irish tours, their first time in America, and their contribution to the iconic punk movie, Sid and Nancy. The Pogues’ famously raucous live performances were balanced by their celebrated poetic storytelling. Some of their best songs reflected their Irish roots, including MacGowan’s “The Sick Bed of Cúchulainn&r
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