Dirty Old Town
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"Dirty Old Town" is a song written by Ewan MacColl in 1949 that was made popular by the Dubliners, the Spinners, the Pogues and Rod Stewart.
Salford Docks, a place mentioned in the song
The Pogues
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The Pogues are an English Celtic punk band founded in King's Cross, London, in 1982, by Shane MacGowan, Spider Stacy and Jem Finer. Originally named Pogue Mahone—an anglicisation of the Irish phrase p
Dirty Old Town
…Dirty Old Town" is a song written by Ewan MacColl in 1949 that was made popular by the Dubliners, the Spinners, the Pogues and Rod Stewart. The song was written about Salford, then in Lancashire (now in Greater Manchester), England, the area where MacColl was born and brought…
The Pogues performing in Munich in 2011. From left to right: Philip Chevron, James Fearnley, Andrew Ranken, Shane MacGowan, Darryl Hunt, Spider Stacy and Jem Finer.
The Pogues in Brixton, 2004
The Pogues with Shane MacGowan, 11 October 2006 in San Diego
The Pogues on 1 August 2010 in Amsterdam