Shane MacGowan, fast-living, hard-drinking singer of Irish folk-punk band The Pogues – obituary
MacGowan at age 19, when he was editor of the punk rock magazine Bondage in 1977 – Sydney O’Meara/Getty Images Shane MacGowan, who has died aged 65, was the ruthless, hard-living singer of the Pogues; he was revered as much for his excessive alcohol consumption as for his dark, ruthless but lyrical vision of Irish … Read more