En d\u00e9montrant que l\u2019esprit punk pouvait vivre dans la musique folk traditionnelle irlandaise, les Pogues furent l\u2019un des groupes les plus radicaux du milieu des ann\u00e9es 1980. Men\u00e9s par Shane MacGowan, dont la voix p\u00e2teuse et souvent incompr\u00e9hensible dissimulait pourtant la po\u00e9sie pure de ses textes, les Pogues \u00e9taient ind\u00e9niablement politiques \u2014 non seulement plusieurs de leurs chansons prenaient explicitement parti pour le lib\u00e9ralisme de la classe ouvri\u00e8re, mais leur son d\u00e9cha\u00een\u00e9, m\u00e9lange explosif de punk et de folk, \u00e9tait en soi une provocation. Ils avaient aussi un sens de l\u2019humour d\u00e9licieusement tordu, comme en t\u00e9moigne leur plus grand succ\u00e8s, le chant de No\u00ebl d\u00e9traqu\u00e9 Fairytale of New York. Leurs trois premiers albums \u2014 Red Roses for Me, Rum Sodomy & the Lash, If I Should Fall from Grace with God \u2014 furent largement salu\u00e9s en Grande-Bretagne comme aux \u00c9tats-Unis, et en 1988, ils comptaient un public culte important dans les deux pays. Pourtant, le mode de vie sombrement romantique et autodestructeur de MacGowan \u2014 essentiel \u00e0 l\u2019esprit et au succ\u00e8s du groupe \u2014 finit par causer leur perte. \u00c0 la fin de la d\u00e9cennie, il \u00e9tait tomb\u00e9 dans un profond alcoolisme et une toxicomanie s\u00e9v\u00e8re, obligeant le groupe \u00e0 le renvoyer pour pouvoir continuer. Les Pogues poursuivirent sans lui au d\u00e9but des ann\u00e9es 1990, jouant devant un public de plus en plus restreint, avant de se dissoudre en 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By demonstrating that the spirit of punk could live in traditional Irish folk music, the Pogues were one of the most radical bands of the mid-’80s. Led by Shane MacGowan, whose slurred, incomprehensible voice often disguised the sheer poetry of his songs, the Pogues were undeniably political — not only were many of their songs explicitly in favor of working-class liberalism, but the wild, careening sound of their punk-injected folk was implicitly outrageous. They also had a wickedly warped sense of humor, which was abundantly clear on their biggest hit, the fractured Christmas carol “Fairy Tale of New York.” The group’s first three albums — Red Roses for Me, Rum Sodomy & the Lash, If I Should Fall from Grace with God — were widely praised in both Britain and America, and by 1988 they had earned substantial cult followings in both countries. Yet MacGowan’s darkly romantic, wasted lifestyle, which was so key to their spirit and success, ultimately proved to be their downfall. By the end of the decade, he had fallen deep into alcoholism and drug addiction, forcing the band to fire him if they wanted to survive. The Pogues carried on without him in the early ’90s, playing to a slowly shrinking audience before finally disbanding in 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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