Shane MacGowan – a life in pictures 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 MacGowanPhotograph: The Gift Film/MacGowan Family Archives
Share on Facebook MacGowan in 1977Photograph: Ian Dickson/Rex Features
Share on Facebook MacGowan in 1984 with a mirrored plaque commemorating the Pogues’ debut studio album Red Roses for MePhotograph: Steve Rapport/Getty Images
Share on Facebook The Pogues live in the 1980sPhotograph: Brian Rasic/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Before the release of Fairytale of New York in 1987Photograph: Stephen Parker/Alamy
Share on Facebook Kirsty MacColl (1959-2000), who duetted with MacGowan on Fairytale of New York in a promotional image for the song, circa 1987Photograph: Tim Roney/Getty Images
Share on Facebook With the Pogues in December 1990 at Vredenburg in Utrecht, the NetherlandsPhotograph: Frans Schellekens/Redferns
Share on Facebook With Johnny Depp in 1994Photograph: Allstar
Share on Facebook A portrait of MacGowan from 1997Photograph: Martyn Goodacre/Getty Images
Share on Facebook In 1997 with his mother, Therese, at the family home in Nenagh, Tipperary, where his parents lived after relocating from England, where he was bornPhotograph: Martyn Goodacre/Getty Images
Share on Facebook At the Mean Fiddler in Harlesden, London, March 2000Photograph: Andy Hall/The Observer
Share on Facebook With the Popes live at the Olympia theatre, 2003, in Dublin, setting the scene for St Patrick’s Day celebrationsPhotograph: Haydn West/PA
Share on Facebook 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 recordingPhotograph: Danny Clifford/Haiti Single/Getty Images
Share on Facebook On stage at British Summer Time festival, Hyde Park, July 2014Photograph: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images
Share on Facebook 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 2016Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images
Share on Facebook MacGowan with his wife, Victoria Clarke, on 21 March 2022Photograph: Ellius Grace/The Guardian
Share on Facebook 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 Facebook Topics ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaKWlqLake8aao6Wdoq58c3yRbGanp6ZkgHF70qGYp51doq6ks86wmKdloKS0trHSZphmpJmbsm61zWanopukqr%2Bmvw%3D%3D
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