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Shane MacGowan obituary - lead singer and masterful songwriter for the Pogues who brought punk style and attitude to Irish folk music
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- Title
- Shane MacGowan obituary
- Authors
- Derek Schofield
- Published
- Nov 30 2023
- Word count
- 2013 words
One more here recommending Rum, Sodomy & the Lash. I’d also like to recommend Streets of Sorrow from the album If I Should Fall From Grace With God (and also the track If I Should Fall From Grace With God too). He was incredible, both as an artist and as someone willing to speak up for the downtrodden.
Fairy Tale of New York (slurs in the song)
Dirty Old Town
Haunted (with Sinead O'Connor)
Thousands are Sailing
Lorelei
The Parting Glass
RIP. Extremely down-to-earth lad. My boss came across him and Mike Scott from Waterboys in a pub in Glasgow and they got him a pint and chatted away. They were drunk as skunks, mind you, but still very amiable.
This obituary has been criticized in Ireland. Here is a better one. (https://theconversation.com/with-the-pogues-shane-macgowan-perhaps-proved-himself-the-most-important-irish-writer-since-james-joyce-218038)
In case there are german and french speaking people here, there's a movie with and about Shane McGowan on ARTE called 'A Crock of Gold'. As far as I know it's only available there with german and french voiceover though. There's an english trailer on YT.
It's a journey through his life, starting as an irish boy on a farm and a teen punk in London, his time with the Pogues, to just recent days (I think he was 61 when the movie was made). I liked it a lot.