{"id":665252,"date":"2026-08-31T13:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/665252\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T13:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:56:16","slug":"u2-share-cover-of-the-pogues-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/665252\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 Share Cover Of The Pogues’ ‘Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah’"},"content":{"rendered":"

U2<\/strong><\/a> has shared their contribution to the star-studded line up of the upcoming tribute album 20th Century Paddy \u2013 The Songs of Shane MacGowan. The band has covered the Pogues\u2019 1988 classic \u201cYeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah\u201d for the collection, out November 13 via Rubyworks.<\/p>\n

The LP will also feature MacGowan covers by Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Primal Scream, Steve Earle, Kate Moss, and Dropkick Murphys. At least 50% of artist royalties from the album will be donated to the Dublin Simon Community in honor of MacGowan longterm connection to the organisation and his commitment to supporting those experiencing homelessness. The Irish musician died in 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cShane MacGowan was full of contradictions\u2014and that\u2019s where the truth of him lived,\u201d writes the Edge in a statement introducing the cover. He adds that MacGowan could be \u201cprecise about what mattered and gloriously careless about everything else. If that sounds like a kind of performance, maybe it was. But as Oscar Wilde put it, \u2018a mask tells us more than a face.\u2019 The crooked grin, the wildness, the old-Ireland inflections\u2014they weren\u2019t disguises so much as signals. A way of placing himself in a lineage that ran from the pub storyteller to the punk stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Announcing the full track listing, MacGowan\u2019s widow, Victoria Mary Clarke said: \u201cIt is not possible to say how much it means to me and to Shane\u2019s family to have this extraordinary collection of his songs being sung in tribute to him, to his work and to Irish music. When I first met Shane in the early 80\u2019s he was inflamed with a powerful, passionate mission to bring Irish music, history and culture to the attention of the world through his songwriting. It made him feel like the happiest man alive to know that he had achieved his mission, and that there were many more musicians who came after him and who seized that torch and lit fires with it in places that he had not even dreamed of.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

In July, U2 released a new track called \u201cStreet of Dreams.\u201d The song is the first preview of the band\u2019s yet-to-be-announced new studio album, their first in nine years, which is due later this year. The release follows the band\u2019s most recent full-length studio album, Songs of Experience, which arrived in 2017.\n<\/p>\n

Listen to U2\u2019s cover of \u201cYeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah\u201d here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U2 has shared their contribution to the star-studded line up of the upcoming tribute album 20th Century Paddy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[41597,18,117,47519,19,17,337,6318,129262,3380,281071],"class_list":["post-665252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-cover","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-homepage-featured","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-rock","tag-the-pogues","tag-u2","tag-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117190471309847322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}