2023-11-30 12:32:00
Shane MacGowan, lead singer of Celtic punk band The Pogues, has died at the age of 65 after a long illness, his wife announced Thursday.
“Shane (…) left to be with Jesus and Mary,” his wife Victoria Mary Clarke wrote on Instagram. The group, which found success in the 1980s, was particularly known for its songs recounting the lives of the Irish and the Irish diaspora.
Heavenly Tramp
Old punk, notorious alcoholic, true song writer and performer like no other, Shane McGowan was a celestial tramp, a poet who spoke of the putrid underbelly of Albion and the deep roots of his Ireland. Nick Cave idolized him, like so many others.
Born on December 25, 1957, he was notably the author with the Pogues, in duet with singer Kirsty McColl, of a Christmas song cherished in the Anglo-Saxon world: Fairytale of New York., undoubtedly the most improbable Christmas hit in the history of music with its verse which will serve, for the moment, as an obituary: “You are a tramp / You are a punk / You are trash, a larva / Merry Christmas your ass/I pray to God that this is our last.”
Shane McGowan, poet of the disinherited and forgotten by society, false tough guy and true romantic with a well-crafted sense of humor, will not live his last Christmas. No matter, he will accompany us in songs. Hello there, old punk!
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