He was a punk, a poet, an icon of Irish ballads and an extraordinary songwriter. Shane MacGowan, who has died at the age of 65, was the man who brought us all to tears with his lyrics. With his band T...
11.30.2023 Dailymail.co.uk and 6 sitesBookies have slashed their odds on The Pogues' Fairytale of New York becoming Christmas number one after the passing of Shane McGowan earlier today. McGowan died at the age of 65 after an eight-year b...
11.30.2023 Dailymail.co.uk and 11 sitesThe singer had been receiving care in St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin for an infection but was discharged last week ahead of his upcoming birthday on Christmas Day. From the 1980s, he lead the Irish p...
11.30.2023 yahoo.com , thesun.co.uk and 193 sitesThe Pogues' hit song Fairytale of New York is in a battle for top spot in the UK charts against Wham ! and Mariah Carey following the death of frontman Shane MacGowan, the Official Charts Company has ...
12.02.2023 dailymail.co.uk , bbc.com and 1 sites‘There would be all sorts of rumours flying around. ‘He’s in Eamonn Doran’s with Huey from the Fun Lovin’ Criminals. They’ve been on the lash for three days, and they’re still going …’” Daragh Lynch of Irish folk group Lankum is reminiscing about his teenage years speculating on the movements of Shane MacGowan in Dublin. As a Rimbaudian rogue and colossus of Celtic song, MacGowan packed millennia of rare magic into his 65 years. Now, as one of the most luminous calendar years for Irish music in ...
12.02.2023 Theguardian.com and 7 sitesMusician and singer Shane MacGowan, best known as the frontman of The Pogues, has died at the age of 65. His wife Victoria Mary Clarke said, 'Shane will always be the light that I hold before me and t...
11.30.2023 sky.com , walesonline.co.uk and 44 sitesThe heartbroken wife of Pogues' frontman Shane MacGowan has paid emotional tribute to the Irish hellraiser following his death, saying he will 'live forever in my heart'. The legendary rocker, who was...
11.30.2023 Dailymail.co.uk and 1 sitesShane MacGowan Shane MacGowan, songwriter and lead singer of Celtic folk-punk band The Pogues, died early Thursday at the age of 65 after a long illness, his widow announced. "Shane who will always be...
11.30.2023 bangkokpost.com , rfi.fr , breitbart.com and 24 sitesPogues front man Shane MacGowan was known as a great musician - but he will also be remembered for his witty one-liners about love, life and drinking. Praised for being the 'greatest songwriter of his...
11.30.2023 Dailymail.co.uk and 4 sitesThe wife of the late punk rocker Shane MacGowan has revealed he was secretly a huge fan of the royals. Victoria Mary Clarke says the staunch Irish republican, who died aged 65 last Thursday, was a very different man behind closed doors to his very cy...
12.01.2023 Dailymail.co.uk and 8 sites