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Shane MacGowan

Shane MacGowan is an English-born Irish singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the Pogues.

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Johnny Depp promises to play guitar on ‘genius punk poet’ Shane’s MacGowan’s new album

Johnny Depp has promised The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan that he will play guitar on his new album.

Siobhan MacGowan in Dromineer, Co Tipperary. Photo: Paul McCarthy

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Siobhan MacGowan: ‘Shane has liked to walk on the wild side – but I get a high out of just life’

You never stop being the little sister. That’s what I think as I speak with Siobhan MacGowan, who is in her late 50s now, and four years younger than her brother, Shane. His presence has loomed large in her life – but now she’s setting out on her own.

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Patrick McCabe’s novel Poguemahone is a triumphant bum-rush of ribald verse

Poguemahone Patrick McCabe Unbound, €35

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Rock memoirs: The autobiographies that hit all the right notes in 2021

Like the finest films, theatre and art, the best music books of the year invited us to explore fears that lay within. They made us feel something. In the middle of a plague, Botoxed rock stars and their culturally tone-deaf tales of excess posing as literature would have lacked all relatability.

Ever lasting – Shane MacGowan’s relationship with Victoria Mary Clarke, pictured here in 1993, is central to this book. Picture: Independent Newspapers/NLI Collection

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Shane MacGowan’s authorised biography ain’t no fairytale… but it’s a riveting read

The publication of a weighty book like this would usually coincide with, say, a significant anniversary of a death. But Shane MacGowan is very much alive. Despite reports to the contrary over the last 30 years.

Glen Hansard, Bono and Imelda May take part in the annual Christmas Eve busk on Grafton Street, Dublin (Lorraine O’Sullivan/PA)

Late Late Show ‘busking special’- Bono, Imelda May and Shane MacGowan join line-up

Tradition is key during the festive season for most, and one that many Dubliners love is watching well-known musicians busk on Grafton Street every Christmas Eve in aid of the Simon Community.

Shane MacGowan live at the Olympia Theatre, Friday, 14 March, 2003, in Dublin. PA photo: Haydn West

Shane MacGowan says he felt guilty for not having the ‘guts’ to join the IRA

Shane MacGowan said he previously felt guilty for not having the “guts” to join the IRA in his new documentary.

When Bono, Boyzone and Shane McGowan helped Children in Need

Lou Reed's original slow and sombre 'Perfect Day' was never released as a Reed single in its own right. Instead, record label RCA bundled it as a double-A sided single with 'Walk On The Wild Side' in 1972, the latter picking up the lion's share of radio play and exposure at the time.

Shane MacGowan of the Pogues. Photo by Andrew Catlin

Subtitles added to Shane MacGowan documentary after ‘strange mixture of Irish and English’ complaints by viewers

Film distributors have decided to add subtitles to the UK release of Shane MacGowan’s documentary as media who watched the first release said he was hard to understand.

FRIENDSHIP: Shane MacGowan and Victoria Mary Clarke with Johnny Depp at The Pogues frontman’s 60th birthday party in 2018. The couple have known the Hollywood star for 30 years. Photo: Steve Humphreys

'We believe in Johnny Depp' - Shane MacGowan and Victoria Mary-Clarke say after actor loses libel case

Journalist Victoria Mary-Clarke has launched a support campaign for Hollywood movie star Johnny Depp after he lost his libel battle against a British newspaper.

Johnny Depp's 'warts and all' film on old pal Shane MacGowan gets world premiere

The world premiere of the Johnny Depp-produced documentary, Crock of Gold - A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan, takes place at the San Sebastian Film Festival tonight.

Shane MacGowan pictured on The Late Late Show Shane MacGowan and Fairytale of New York special. Picture Andres Poveda

Stars turn out to pay tribute to Shane MacGowan in Late Late Show special

POGUES legend Shane MacGowan performed a rousing rendition of his Christmas classic 'Fairytale of New York' on tonight's Late Late Show.

Victoria Mary Clarke wearing one of the silk angel scarves from her new collection. Photo: Frank McGrath

'I didn't want to just be seen as Mrs Shane MacGowan' - Victoria Mary Clarke

Your wedding is supposed to be the happiest day of your life. I wouldn't be the type of person to believe that. I don't expect things to turn out well, in general. When people ask me if I am excited about going on holiday, I say no, I hate flying and it might rain. So when me and Shane got married a year ago, I was really just hoping to get it over with and go home and watch Netflix.

Singer Shane MacGowan has stood over the use of the word faggot in his Christmas Fairytale of New York hit. (Niall Carson/PA)

'Film about our love is no fairytale' - Shane MacGowan's wife

Victoria Mary Clarke has said her husband Shane MacGowan gave her free rein when she co-wrote a film about the couple’s love for each other.

Season’s greetings: Kirsty MacColl and Shane MacGowan promoting ‘Fairytale of New York’ in 1987. Photo: Tim Roney/Getty

'Not all characters in songs and stories are angels' - Shane MacGowan responds to Fairytale controversy

Shane MacGowan has responded to recent criticism of the use of a word which is offensive to the gay community in his Christmas classic, Fairytale of New York.

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