The pogues shane macgowan biography
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Shane MacGowan
Irish singer-songwriter (1957–2023)
Shane Apostle Lysaght MacGowan (25 Dec 1957 – 30 Nov 2023) was a British-born Irish[a] singer-songwriter and conductor, best be revealed as interpretation lead choir member and main lyricist set in motion Celtic thug band picture Pogues. Sand won commendation for his lyrics, which often unerringly on picture Irish expatriate experience; earth also standard widespread media attention receive his lifestyle, which tendency decades racket heavy liquor and pharmaceutical abuse. A New Dynasty Times death notice noted his "twin reputations as a titanically toxic personality challenging a chieftain songsmith whose lyrics rouged vivid portraits of interpretation underbelly wink Irish foreigner life."[1]
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A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan
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The definitive biography of Shane MacGowan, fully updated to include Shane's final months and the response to his passing.
Punk protagonist, legendary drinker, Irish musical icon. The complete and extraordinary journey of the Pogues' notorious frontman from outcast to national treasure has never been told - until now.
A Furious Devotion vividly recounts the experiences that shaped the greatest songwriter of his generation: the formative trips to his mother's homestead in Tipperary, the explosion of punk which changed his life, and the drink and drugs that nearly ended it.
As well as exclusive interviews with Shane himself, author Richard Balls has secured contributions from his wife and family, and people who have never spoken publicly about Shane before: close associates, former girlfriends and the English teacher who first spotted his literary gift. Nick Cave, Aidan Gillen, Cillian Murphy, Christy Moore, Sinead O'Connor and Dermot O'Leary are on the rollcall of those paying tribute to the gifted songwriter and poet.
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Data wydania: 04.04.2024
Liczba stron: 368
Wymiary: 12.7x17.8
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
Wydawca: Omnibus Press
Tytuł:A Furious Devotion: The Life of Sha
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Here’s a journey around my brother. It may be a trip that’s a little more curvy than straight – which is fine because so is Shane.
He was born on Christmas Day 1957 in Pembury, Kent. The nurses in the hospital were busy celebrating and my mum didn’t get a lot of attention as Christmas Eve turned into one long night, so she wasn’t enamoured with the hospital. But he did get to have his picture on the nursery wall as the Christmas baby. My father’s sister lived in Kent and Shane was taken to her house and put in a drawer as our also newly born cousin, Nicholas, was visiting with his parents from Dublin and taking up the cot.
I came along five years later. There were just the two of us, born to our mother, Therese, a beauty and award-winning Feis Ceoil singer and father, Maurice, a sharp Dublin wit. When we were young, at our mother’s house in Tipperary, Shane used to shove my face in cowpats. On the other hand he once saved me from a horrible death by raising the alarm when I was being chased by a cock-turkey. Uncle John took out his gun and shot it and we had it for dinner. When the rosary was called at 6 every evening we used to hide together behind the crumbling stone wall and he and Uncle Jim used to swing me into bed at night. When we travelled back to Tipp from England