{"id":471903,"date":"2026-05-28T20:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/471903\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:56:17","slug":"u2-to-feature-on-tribute-album-to-pogues-shane-macgowan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/471903\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 to feature on tribute album to Pogues\u2019 Shane MacGowan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tribute album to The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan is set to feature a song from U2.<\/p>\n<p>The record, entitled 20th Century Paddy, celebrates the legacy of the Irish singer-songwriter, who died in 2023 aged 65.<\/p>\n<p>Due to be released on November 13th, the star-studded album will see some 40 artists cover some of MacGowan\u2019s biggest tracks.<\/p>\n<p>A post announcing that rock band U2, known for With Or Without You and Beautiful Day, would be joining the line-up was uploaded onto MacGowan\u2019s official Instagram site on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It said that alongside the group, Kingfishr, Bob Geldof, David Keenan, Jimmy Artache, and Tom Creagh are also \u201cjoining the celebration\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/u2-to-feature-on-tribute-album-to-pogues-shane-macgowan.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Depp attending the photocall for Jeanne du Barry at the Cannes film festival\" data-title=\"76th Cannes Film Festival\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Archive\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Archive\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Doug Peters\" data-usage-terms=\"\"\/>A version of Haunted by Johnny Depp is to feature on the album (Doug Peters\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>Other celebrities set to feature in the record include Hozier and Jessie Buckley, who will cover festive hit Fairytale of New York, and The Libertines, who will cover Sayonara.<\/p>\n<p>A rendition of Haunted by Johnny Depp and Imelda May and A Rainy Night in Soho by Bruce Springsteen have already been released.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood star Depp was a close friend of the singer-songwriter and even acted as best man at MacGowan\u2019s wedding to Victoria Mary Clark in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Primal Scream, Kate Moss, and David Gray are among other celebrities to feature on the album.<\/p>\n<p>U2 will be covering of The Pogues\u2019 1988 single Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah while Geldof will record a rendition of the 1997 track St John of Gods.<\/p>\n<p>MacGowan was born to Irish parents on Christmas day in 1957 in Pembury, Kent, and soon moved to rural Tipperary.<\/p>\n<p>From the 1980s, the singer led The Pogues, who became a household name after the release of Fairytale Of New York in 1987.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tribute album to The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan is set to feature a song from U2. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-471903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}