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    Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan (25 December 1957 – 30 November 2023) was a British-born Irish singer-songwriter, musician and poet best known as the lead...
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    formed by Shane MacGowan (of the Pogues) and Paul "Mad Dog" McGuinness, who play a blend of rock, Irish folk and Americana. Shane MacGowan and the Popes...
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    The Pogues are an English or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and others, founded in King's Cross, London, in 1982, as Pogue Mahone...
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  • late Shane MacGowan, lead singer of the Irish group The Pogues. When The Pogues started out as "Pogue Mahone" in the early 1980s, Siobhan MacGowan designed...
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    number 2 with the Pogues on "Fairytale of New York", singing a duet with Shane MacGowan. This led to her accompanying the Pogues on their British and European...
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  • Fairytale of New York (category Songs written by Shane MacGowan)
    by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan and recorded by their London-based band the Pogues, featuring English singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl on vocals. The...
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  • The Snake is the first album by Shane MacGowan and the Popes, released in 1994 by ZTT Records. It peaked at No. 37 on the UK Albums Chart. The band supported...
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  • Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan is a 2020 documentary film about the life of Shane MacGowan, the lead singer and songwriter of The Pogues...
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  • British-born Irish singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan of the Pogues, whom she met at age 16; Clarke and MacGowan were married from 2018 until the latter's...
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  • Shane MacGowan as they endeavour to grow their own food in their own garden. The show documents Clarke's struggles to grow vegetables and MacGowan's attempts...
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  • contributed the first original songs to a Pogues album not written by singer Shane MacGowan or banjo player Jem Finer, and the album also saw the band begin to...
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  • to make the UK Top 100, reaching number 54. The song was composed by Shane MacGowan and featured on the band's second album, Rum Sodomy & the Lash. The...
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    projects. Having played together occasionally since the late 1970s, Shane MacGowan (vocals), Peter "Spider" Stacy (tin whistle), and Jem Finer (banjo)...
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  • Pogues, released on 1 October 1990, and the last to feature frontman Shane MacGowan as a member. Hell's Ditch continued the group's slow departure from...
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  • "You're the One" is a duet by Máire Brennan and Shane MacGowan taken from the soundtrack to the motion picture Circle of Friends. A promotional video was...
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  • The Crock of Gold (album) (category Shane MacGowan and The Popes albums)
    full-length album by Shane MacGowan and the Popes and was released in November 1997 on ZTT Records. The Crock of Gold followed The Snake, MacGowan's first solo...
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  • A Rainy Night in Soho (category Songs written by Shane MacGowan)
    in the studio. Songwriter Shane MacGowan and producer Elvis Costello clashed over the final mix of the song, with MacGowan preferring a mix featuring...
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    salesman for nearly two years. Stacy co-founded the Pogues, along with Shane MacGowan, Jem Finer, and James Fearnley, and appeared on all of their recordings...
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  • coat, while bass player Cait O'Riordan is seen holding a can of beer. Shane MacGowan is pictured with his foot in a cast. The UK music press hailed the Pogues'...
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  • by the Pogues, released in 1993, and their first without lead singer Shane MacGowan. The album saw the band continue to expand their musical reach past...
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  • Haunted (The Pogues song) (category Songs written by Shane MacGowan)
    Charts Company. "Shane MacGowan". The Pogues. Retrieved 29 May 2010. "Haunted". everyHit.com. Retrieved 29 May 2010. "Shane MacGowan with Sinead O'Connor...
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  • band, The Nipple Erectors (The Nips), in 1976 playing bass guitar with Shane MacGowan on vocals, and co-founded The Men They Couldn't Hang in 1984. Bradley...
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    'Fairytale of New York' played at Shane MacGowan's funeral. RTÉ.ie. RTÉ. 8 December 2023. Retrieved 11 December 2023. Shane MacGowan funeral: Johnny Depp and Bob...
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  • clear that MacGowan was hardly the only talented songwriter in the band". Robert Christgau, on the other hand, believed that "Shane MacGowan will remain...
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    questions from fans. He has collaborated with the likes of Johnny Cash, Shane MacGowan of the Pogues and ex-partner PJ Harvey, and his songs have been covered...
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    The Pogues are an English or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and others, founded in King's Cross, London in 1982, as Pogue Mahone...
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  • producer Elvis Costello and singer/songwriter Shane MacGowan had a huge fight over this, with MacGowan insisting on the flugelhorn version. The oboe version...
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  • They were Shane MacGowan's first musical group. Initially consisting of vocalist/songwriter Shane MacGowan (known at the time as 'Shane O'Hooligan')...
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  • Authorised Story of Shane MacGowan, by Richard Balls (2021) ISBN 9781787601086 A Drink with Shane MacGowan (Italian Edition), by Shane MacGowan and Victoria...
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    barge in France.[citation needed] He settled in London, where he met Shane MacGowan, Spider Stacy, and James Fearnley, with whom he founded the Pogues....
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