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Cooley Hurd

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Tue Oct 8, 2013, 06:38 PM Oct 2013

Phil Chevron of The Pogues dead at 56

http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/pogues-guitarist-phil-chevron-dies-at-56-1.1488742



DUBLIN, Ireland -- Phil Chevron, the guitarist for boisterous Anglo-Irish band The Pogues, has died at 56.
Pogues manager Mark Addis says Chevron, whose real name was Philip Ryan, died Tuesday in Dublin after being treated for head and neck cancer.
The Dublin-born musician was a member of seminal Irish punk rockers The Radiators From Space before joining the London-based Pogues in the early 1980s.
The rumbustious band, fronted by singer Shane MacGowan, fused Irish traditional music, rock and punk into an exhilarating hybrid on albums such as "Rum, Sodomy and the Lash" and "If I Should Fall From Grace With God."
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Cross gently, Phil.
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Phil Chevron of The Pogues dead at 56 (Original Post) Cooley Hurd Oct 2013 OP
Shane McGowan will outlive them all! LTR Oct 2013 #1
Love that band! zappaman Oct 2013 #2
Rest in peace, Phil. nt Mnemosyne Oct 2013 #3
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