Reply With QuoteThe fairytale ends. RIP Shane.
Heck of a life.
The fairytale ends. RIP Shane.
Oh no. Gutted.
RIP Shane ... Lived life to the full
Rip. Did well to get to 65.
Xmas No1. Incoming
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Only 65 but I guess the booze etc hastened his departure. He's been in poor health for a number of years.
RIP Shane.
Cheers,
Neil.
He was in poor health for as long as I can remember, and I'm amazed he made it to 65. Sad news.
I hope you all like Fairytale Of New York, because you'll be hearing a lot of it over the next few weeks! Fortunately, I do.
Sad news.
One of the best things about Christmas.Originally Posted by monogroover
Sad News,
I thought when they let him out of hospital to go home maybe they were letting him go to pass on at home with family and friends, sadly this proved to be the case.
RIP Shane
Top Bloke, we'll all miss you
One of the last great poets of our time.
It would be tragic but you get the feeling he lived and enjoyed every second, and wouldn't have had it any other way.
RIP and happy Christmas your arse
Hopefully Fairy Tale of New York will finally get to number one this year and we don’t have more sausage roll gash.
I could never get used to the look of him with teeth🤷🏻*♂️
Re-United with Kirsty,
“…an old man said to me, “won’t see another one” “
https://youtu.be/Pc9aWjAQ7SI?si=I87P-JVEyENR3r44
One of my favourite bits from The Wire was the traditional send off and The Pogues “Body of an American “
Brilliant, thanks for sharing that.
RIP.
Perhaps how we like to think the way it might have been.One of the last great poets of our time.
It would be tragic but you get the feeling he lived and enjoyed every second, and wouldn't have had it any other way.
RIP and happy Christmas your arse
But a life of heavy drinking and drugs isnt something I see as a nice way to live,for him,& less so for his family.....
The Rock Star life some choose to live by.I think the reality is somewhat darker sadly.
But RIP as they say.....His Great Christmas Song will live forever.
Definitely a Christmas favourite of mine. RIP
P.S. I wonder if he and his missus met at the dentist ...
This.
Add to that, anything but Bublé again
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'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
RIP Shane MacGowan.
Poignant as one of my first professional jobs was to photograph him (1991)
Later on in the gig he seemed to be polishing off a bottle of vodka, sometimes just slumped at the side of the stage - i thought even back then he couldn't carry on every night like that.
A producer friend said that during his time recording with him he had to be coaxed out from underneath the table to record a vocal as he had taken so many pills and drank so much that he was comatosed.
Sad in so many ways as he was a brilliant writer and performer.
Lived like that for 40(?) years. Did well to get so far. He has looked wrecked for 39 of those years
He looked dead when he was alive.
I enjoyed a boozy Sunday lunch time with him back in 1988, its a miracle he got to 65! RIP Shane
It’s been a sad year. Terry Hall last December, Sinead in July and now Shane 4 months later.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
RIP Shane.
Very sad news.
RIP Shane.
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I had no idea until today that he was a public schoolboy, he went to Westminster, no less, alma mater to a few PMs.
Wouldn't have guessed that, at all.
His body was wearing more mileage than his 60 odd years should have shown.
RIP Shane.
Fairytale is one of the few Christmas songs that bears multiple listens.
I was fortunate enough to see him live with The Nips, The Pogues and The Popes.
Farewell to one of the greatest songwriters I have had the pleasure to hear. I think I saw The Pogues live more times than any other band, in four different countries and over four decades.
The St Patrick’s night gigs in the late eighties were great evenings, but I think the band were better during the numerous reunion tours in the 2000’s. Last time I saw them was at The Olympia in Paris, summer of 2012, it was filmed and released as a live album/DVD.
I met Shane on one occasion. I wish that I had an insightful story to share but it was at about 4am in a dodgy indie club in Islington in the early nineties and neither of us were at our best.
RIP you Rebellious Irish Poet.
The canals and the bridges, the embankments and cuts,
They blasted and dug with their sweat and their guts
They never drank water but whiskey by pints
And the shanty towns rang with their songs and their fights.
RIP Shane
Its finally got to me tonight.
Sad news,but not unexpected.RIP
He used to drink in the pub at the top of the road. Shame, really, as the pub at the bottom had far better beer. When he was in there, he was, more often than not, alone, surrounded by a sea of empty glasses. Everyone, it seems, wanted to buy him a drink. But nobody wanted to sit with him.
I'd like to think that in Valhalla they're lining up the shot glasses for the first Lemmy vs. Shane drinking contest. No mead horns required.
He played at a Wake I was it years ago. An absolute blast to hang out with and a truly nice guy. I can't really remember much of the end of the evening so it must have been good!. A true musical legend and when you look that bad in front of a mirror you really do have to rely on talent! His words (or something similar) at the wake.
I know most of the guys on here are of a certain age but I'm sure we're all seeing proper talent less and less these day.
RIP Shane my friend.
Ray
Truly sad, he’d finally got his life sorted out and even had his teeth fixed. In his last interview he actually said that he regretted that after his death everyone will see all the pics of the old him, not he ones of him smiling with his wife .
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