Going Out In Style

The members of Dropkick Murphys aren’t short on famous friends. Besides collaborating with Shane MacGowan and having their now-ubiquitous Woody Guthrie adaptation, “I’m Shipping Up To Boston,” appear on the soundtrack to Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, the stalwart Boston punk band can legitimately claim The Boss as a…

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While pop/rock's pantheon of concept characters is topped by incredible and outlandish characters like Ziggy Stardust and Tommy, the truth is that Cornelius Larkin -- war veteran, working-class hero, and the fictional centerpiece of Dropkick Murphys' seventh studio album, Going Out in Style -- would likely outfight and outdrink them.