Shane MacGowan, musician and songwriter with the Pogues and the Popes has died aged 65. Here are snapshots from his brilliant and at times broken life, both on and off stage Thu 30 Nov 2023 07.10EST
Shane MacGowan, musician and songwriter with the Pogues and the Popes has died aged 65. Here are snapshots from his brilliant and at times broken life, both on and off stage
Main image: Shane MacGowan performs at the Greenwich Summer Sessions in London in 2011 Photograph: Matt Kent/Redferns
Thu 30 Nov 2023 07.10 EST
As a toddler, from the 2019 documentary Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan
Photograph: The Gift Film/MacGowan Family Archives
MacGowan and Mick Jones of the Clash during the recording of a charity single, I Put a Spell on You, for Haiti, at Sphere Studios in London in 2010. The Pogues singer organised the recording
Photograph: Danny Clifford/Haiti Single/Getty Images
MacGowan at Hoping’s Greatest Hits, the 10th anniversary of the Hoping Foundation’s fundraising event for Palestinian refugee children at Ronnie Scott’s in London in 2016
With a new book of his drawings and lyrics, The Eternal Buzz and the Crock of Gold, edited by Victoria Clarke, in August 2022 Share on FacebookShare on Twitter