Shane MacGowan, Songwriter Who Fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, Dies at 65
Shane MacGowan, the brilliant but chaotic former songwriter and frontman for the Pogues, who reinvigorated interest in Irish music in the 1980s by harnessing it to the propulsive power of punk rock has died. He was 65. Mr. MacGowan emerged from London’s punk scene of the late 1970s and spent nine…
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