"Derry's finest debuted in 1978 with Teenage Kicks, 2 minutes 23 seconds of immaculate guitar noise that has been covered (but never bettered) by everyone from Supergrass to K T Tunstall, Green Day to Busted. John Peel's 'favourite record of all time' was followed by a dozen perfect pop singles including Jimmy Jimmy, Here Comes The Summer, My Perfect Cousin and Wednesday Week. Four cracking albums showed a band prepared to take risks as punk morphed...

The Pogues injected the fury of punk into Irish folk music and gave the world the troubled, iconic, darkly romantic songwriter Shane MacGowan. Here Comes Everybody is a memoir written by founding member and accordion player James Fearnley, drawn from his personal experiences and the series of journals and correspondence he kept throughout the band's career. Fearnley describes the coalescence of a disparate collection of vagabonds living

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