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Sinéad O’Connor and Shane MacGowan, two Irish musicians, both died in 2023; Sinéad on July 26 and Shane on Nov. 30. Losing one of these legends would have been tragic, but seeing them depart ...

However, MacGowan struggled with addiction and was an infamously heavy drinker, leading him to be fired from the band in 1991. He formed a new group, Shane MacGowan and the Popes, before ...

During a 1991 tour, he was dismissed from The Pogues due to his chemical dependencies' effect on the band’s live shows. After his dismissal, MacGowan formed a new band, Shane MacGowan and The Popes.

Shane MacGowan was among the most talented song-writers of his generation, a performer with remarkable stage presence and a Rabelaisian character who based his hard-drinking lifestyle on bohemian ...

Shane MacGowan, singer-songwriter for The Pogues, ... MacGowan formed the Popes and steered it in an early Pogues direction, eschewing the world-music expansion of latter-day Pogues.

The world is mourning the death of Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan, the artist behind songs such as “Fairytale of New York” and “The Old Main Drag”. Clarke said that MacGowan, 65, died from ...

Shane MacGowan's cause of death revealed after The Pogues star passed away aged 65 following eight-year battle with brain condition. ... He retaliated by forming The Popes, ...

Shane MacGowan has died aged 65. ... Following a decade with a new band, the Popes, MacGowan and the Pogues reunited and toured regularly until 2014. McGowan battled drug and alcohol addictions.

Shane MacGowan and the Popes, “That Woman’s Got Me Drinking” (1994) × MacGowan’s muse left him not long after he exited the Pogues, but he did manage one great song with his final band ...

LONDON — Shane Macgowan, the singer-songwriter and frontman of “Celtic Punk” band The Pogues, best known for the Christmas ballad “Fairytale of New York,” died Thursday, his family said ...

LONDON — Shane Macgowan, the singer-songwriter and frontman of “Celtic Punk” band The Pogues, best known for the Christmas ballad “Fairytale of New York,” died Thursday, his family said. He was 65.