Shane MacGowanfounding leader of The Pogues and Irish punk-rock legend, died at 65, his wife said Victoria Mary Clarke.
“I don’t know how to say this so I’m just going to say it. Shane, you will always be the light before me and the measure of my dreams and the love of my life and the most beautiful soul and beautiful angel and the sun and the moon and the beginning and the end of everything that is dear to me has gone to be with Jesus and Mary and their beautiful mother Therese,” the woman wrote in a statement on her Instagram account.
And he added: “There is no way to describe the loss I feel and the longing for one more of his smiles that lit up my world. You will live in my heart forever.”
Although the reasons for the artist’s death were not reported, the truth is that his health had been weakening for many years as a result of his abuse of drugs and alcohol.
Who was Shane MacGowan?
It’s just that MacGowan was a kind of Charles Bukowski of the punk movementa poet who lived on the edge to be able to write with knowledge of the facts about the most revulsive aspects of human beings and society.
But in addition, he did this with music that, with a punk pulse and attitude, recovered sounds from Celtic folklore, even appealing to the use of banjos, accordions and flutes.
Another of the distinctive features of this artist is that he was a proud Irishman by family roots, a nationalist, who supported the IRA, beyond having been raised and living in London.
This was demonstrated with The Poguesthe trio he founded in 1982, still under the influence left by the Sex Pistolswith which he was going to leave a handful of songs that would become icons of Irish punk.
Among them stand out “Streams of Whiskey”, “Boys from the Country Hell”, “The Body of an American”, “Dirty Old Town”, “Sally MacLennane”, “A Pair of Brown Eyes” and The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn”to name just a few.
In his creations for this band, MacGowan combined rebellion and nostalgia, although from a festive conception.
In the early ’90s, he left the group due to health problems and resumed his career a few years later with another band he called The Popes. Although he recorded three albums that were well received by his already mythical figure, they did not have the impact of his work with his original group.
In 2004 he met with The Pogues to continue the legend although the deterioration of his health did not allow continuity.
Source: Ambito
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