R.I.P. Shane MacGowan

A eulogy for the scumbag and maggot that fused Irish music with punk and gave poetry the kick in the arse it needed

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Shane MacGowan has died. He of The Pogues. He was 65. But that’s measuring it in human years. Each human year is roughly 2.5 MacGowan years. (Often very rough!) Shane MacGowan was, therefore, nearly 163. I miss him already. He was in a wheelchair the last half-dozen years of his life, he had to be subtitled - so impenetrable was his drunken slur. Sha…