Ask AP: The Wire

Celebrity Q&A
on March 11, 2010

What’s the name of the song playing during the scene in the episode of The Wire where all the detectives attend an Irish wake at a bar?
Bob O’Brien, Fishkill, N.Y.

The song you heard closing out that scene of the TV series The Wire, which ran from 2002 to 2008, is “The Body of An American” by the Pogues, an Irish folk band.

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