RIP Shane MacGowan

RIP mate....
Love that song....it sums up the dark hidden reality behind a lot of false facade based Xmas activities
It always make me feel.ok to be edgy and different at Xmas rather than sickly sweet....
 
It seems The Pogues didn’t like Laurence Fox’s suggestion in his now deleted X post.

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Really sad news, one who I think was probably under-rated in his own lifetime, I think the passage of time will reveal his towering genius to future generations.

Holds his own with the great writers of the century in my opinion, songwriters or otherwise.
 
Very sad that he's gone, but not terribly surprised.

I like Fairytale of New York, but I feel it overshadows a great back catalogue: so many fine songs before that.

I'm going to throw Thousands are sailing on top of the good calls already mentioned, but I also enjoyed his rakes on classic folk songs too.
 
mercury_redstone7 said:
As far as I know It was about Manchester.

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Salford, actually. Good track.

He did quite well to get to the age he did. I always get the heebeejeebies a little when I think of the story he tells about his parents giving him Guinness as a 4 year old to get him to sleep. So sad.

RIP
 
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Saw them a few times at their peak in the mid to late 80s and Rum Sodomy and the Lash is brilliant. Rainy Night in Soho is one of my favourite songs of all time. For me, his best work. I remember seeing him performing at a memorial gig for Philip Hall (the Manics' Manager) in the early 90s.. He had to be helped onto the stage and propped up he was so out of it. At that point I couldn't seee him living 5 more years, let alone thirty. Not many people truly earn the label "genius", but he did.
 
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Sorry to hear this. Loved his stuff with the Pogues to many great songs to list.

We sang this song just about every music lesson at school with a lovely teacher called Billy McClean RIP, who it was said, "was well loved but very limited teacher " Music and RE.
Billy left me with a love of these fantastic songs - Billy McClean on the piano.
He gave us a good grounding in traditional songs, Like - Jesse James, Kalinka, Football Crazy, Casey Jones, Irish Rover, Shanandoah, Down In the Valley.

My Favourite Pogues song was Dirty Old Town By James Miller Aka Ewan McCall. As far as I know It was about Manchester.

Fantastic song sung by a fantastic singer and frontman RIP Shane.

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Remember Billy McClean well a thoroughly decent guy amongst some rotten teachers at OLSB.
 
"And in Brendan Behan's footsteps
I danced up and down the street."
Shane MacGowan

That you did, boy,
that you did,
filling them with poetry
rough hewn with the grain
of each tear of the struggle;

every broken word,
each scuppered hope
of every loser backed
until they overflowed choking

on a dream's broken bones,
crying their joys
and drinking to wild times
and hopeless lost promises.

All those lost little boys
and their sunken eyed girls
will be sinking a Powers
to your songs tonight.
 
One of my greatest nights out was a Christmas party at Shane's bar, Filthy McNasty's. I arrived a little later than the people I was meeting, so when I got there I took their order and went to the bar, only to be served by Shane. He took care to get the order right, make sure I was there with who I said I was, asked me if I liked music and seemed touched when I told him the places I'd seen The Pogues, from Glasgow, through Salford to London, over the years. "Yeah we toured all over." He said, "But not as much as this fellah." A hand extended in greeting. "Meet Lemmy." Top, top night.
 
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