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Dec 8, 2023 · The London-raised child of Irish parents, Shane MacGowan, who has died aged 65, took the folk music of the old country and imbued it with the snarling energy of punk.
- The Week UK
Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan (25 December 1957 – 30 November 2023) was a British-born Irish singer-songwriter and musician known as the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of Celtic punk band the Pogues.
Nov 30, 2023 · The former Pogues frontman created, for a brief period, songs of incisive beauty before addiction led to his ejection from the band, although his genius shone once more with the Popes. Pogues ...
Dec 7, 2023 · Brendan Fitzpatrick, MacGowan’s personal driver of 20 years who ferried him to gigs in London and then back home to Tipperary where his ancestral cottage was, will be in the hearse alongside...
- Barney Davis
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Dec 2, 2023 · If Shane MacGowan had a hero, it was the Irish writer and playwright Brendan Behan. When the New Musical Express (NME) sought out Brendan’s mugshot for a 1984 feature on the working-class Dublin writer, the image credit went to “Shane MacGowan.”
Nov 30, 2023 · Shane MacGowan, the singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of Celtic punk band the Pogues who found success with the 1987 song “Fairytale of New York,” died on Thursday. He was 65.
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Nov 30, 2023 · Shane MacGowan, 1957-2023: an uncompromising, chaotic one of a kind. The Pogues frontman has died aged 65. NME remembers an Irish rock great whose love of literature, boozing and songcraft made...
