Hazell Dean Blancmange Dead or Alive Bananarama Tina Turner Rick Astley Princess The Pogues The Pogues were an English or Anglo-IrishCeltic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and others, founded in King's Cross, London, in 1982,as Pogue Mahone—an anglicisation of the Irish Gaelic phrase póg mo thóin, meaning "kiss my arse"Their politically tinged music was informed by the punk backgrounds of MacGowan and bandmate Peter "Spider" Stacy,[19] yet used traditional Irish instruments such as the tin whistle, banjo, cittern, mandolin and accordion. The band reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s, most notably with the Christmas hit single "Fairytale of New York" (1987) and their most commercially successful studio album If I Should Fall from Grace with God (1988)
