Enda McEvoy: Like the granny rule, Pogues' 'Rum' redefined what it meant to be Irish
FIESTA: The Pogues in the mid 80s.
Memories of the summer of 40 years ago…
The rain (ceaseless). Live Aid at Wembley (I wasn’t there). U2 at Croke Park (I was). Getting a loan of Pat Carroll’s copy of Murmur, REM’s debut album (they’d been on the bill at Croke Park), and finding it intriguing if utterly unintelligible lyrically. What in the name of God was the lead singer – Michael Somethingorother; Stripe? – muttering about?
