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Importing the Pogues' brand of rowdy Irish rock

Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 22 September 1987

U2 MAY BE the most popular band in the world, but the group that knocked them off the top of Ireland's pop charts recently was a scruffy London-based outfit called the Pogues.

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