Shane McGowan is DEAD to me!

He checked out just in time to avoid hearing his own insufferable song a million times this month.

Hey I liked that song! It mentioned faggots.

He really was beautiful.

Christmas Number One in UK guaranteed

His sister, Rose, must be devastated.

She was raped.

Him and Sinead in the same year is depressing. RIP, even if it’s shocking he lasted this long.

Pffff. Christmas Classic? I've never heard it. Media culture will shart out anything and everything to fill up a day with clicks. Never heard of Shane McGowan, either.

Of course, if you haven't heard of something, then it must not be true, r7!

Oh, man. What an inexorable end.

I loved the Pogues and their louche Irish music and ways - I’m surprised Shane lasted this long.

Thank God it's not Shane Klingensmith!

This was published just four days ago. 😬

R7 = Idiot

I always thought his band were fucking awful.

R7

Sharts out his opinion (which is fine) then shares a video with 325,000 likes. 🙄

He was a great songwriter. RIP.

R13 prefers One Direction.

R16 - hardly. They're fucking awful too.

I'm more of a Kraftwerk man, so no wonder I don't have time for boybands or diddly-dee music.

I appreciated the Pogues more than I liked them. And yes, Shane burned his candle at both ends so his passing was not entirely a surprise.

There's some poetic grace in the fact that he followed his friend Sinead.......

And of course this means Fairytale will have a good chance at another run on the UK Holiday charts.

R18, there is no "poetic grace" in a famously troubled man following a famously troubled woman in death four months later.

I loved both of them as performers, followed McGowan since the late 1970s and O'Connor since her popular start He burned his candle not at both ends but by throwing it into a bonfire. The Pogues at their best were a perfect fusion of Irish rage and sap poured into traditional formats shaken with a rock sensibility. O'Connor was a tortured Cassandra.

If one wishes to offer commentary, perhaps something other than cant serves, because otherwise one sounds like a frau being self-important.

Where is it a classic Xmas song? UK? 300K likes is not many. For comparison purposes, the completely forgotten band The Waitresses nevertheless have a classic with Christmas Wrapping, at 6.3 million views.

[quote] If one wishes to offer commentary, perhaps something other than cant serves, because otherwise one sounds like a frau being self-important.

As opposed to a twat with a thesaurus being self important.

He was married to Ruth Buzzi? At R11

Shane will be in heaven, with Rosalynn Carter.

[quote]Oh, man. What an inexorable end.

Aren't all ends inexorable?

How could his wife stand to kiss that yuckmouth?

Did anyone else imagine r7 would turn out to be signed "Mariah Carey"?

R25, he got new teeth.

I was Mclested.

Piss off, infected cunt at R19.

R20 yes, it's a bit more popular in the UK.

But there must be multiple videos on YT of Fairytale - no way it only has 300K, maybe one posting of it does.

Not sure what "300K" represents, r30, but this video has 89M views:

r31 I was referring to R20's comment....and yes, thanks for finding that and posting it, I knew it had to have been seen by more people.

Damn, what a shame. The Pogues had made several really good albums. Yes, drink destroyed his liver and teeth and overall health. I was talking about him to a friend just recently and we both marveled that he was still living. RIP Shane.

It was one of the most crazy violent shows I've ever been to. Just a big mass of brawling drunks. It was kind of great.

I misread it as Shawn Mendes.

[quote]Pffff. Christmas Classic? I've never heard it. Media culture will shart out anything and everything to fill up a day with clicks. Never heard of Shane McGowan, either.

Speculating that R7's obituary will include the story that he once as an adolescent strayed five miles from Hayseed Holler, but he cried and carried on so that they drove him back into town, and there he lived out the rest of his days.

I've Never Heard of Something, So It Can't Possibly Have Any Value to Anyone Else On Earth!

*stomps hooves for emphasis*

Amazing he made it to 65

[quote][R25], he got new teeth.

I hope he kept the receipt.

[quote] Pffff. Christmas Classic? I've never heard it.

Fairytale of NY was voted the top Christmas song for years in the UK.

“Fairytale of New York" is the most-played Christmas song of the 21st century.[4] It is frequently cited as the best Christmas song of all time in various television, radio, and magazine-related polls in the UK and Ireland,[5][6] including the UK television special on ITV in December 2012 where it was voted The Nation's Favourite Christmas Song.[7]” - Wikipedia.

The female lead in the song is also dead, having been run over by the boat of a multimillionaire in Mexico.

And let’s not forget poor Delores O’Riordan of the Cranberries died in 2018. That era of musicians has a high mortality rate.

Christmas #1? I’m going down the betting shop.

He’s fug so no gay rumors. Vag only.

He looks like he smells llike all the drugs and drink imbibed in a nightclub when the lights finally come up.

[quote] The female lead in the song is also dead, having been run over by the boat of a multimillionaire in Mexico.

Yes. She has a name. Kirsty MacColl was an amazing singer, songwriter and artist and it's a crime that some rich asshole in Mexico killed her (gross negligence on his part) and got away with murder.

December 18th will be 23 years since her untimely death.

Those new teeth didn't get a lot of work before their retirement

He really is hard to look at…yikes.

That being said, I liked his voice and he had an interesting life.

The old guy in this has really interesting eyes.

Ronnie Drew! He's sadly no longer with us either.

For the looks of it he died before that OP photo was taken.

Pooor Dolores O’Riordan. Why would anyone name their child Dolores? It means “pain/sorrow.” You’re doomin* them from birth.

Loved him. Rest in peace.

R24

He was dying and in poor shape for years. But your reply reminds me of this goofy Fletch scene:

DR. DOLEN I'll bet. Shame about Ed.

FLETCH (vamping) It was. Really a shame. To go so suddenly.

DR. DOLEN Oh, he was dying for years.

FLETCH Sure, but the end was so sudden.

DR. DOLEN He was in intensive care for eight weeks.

FLETCH Yes, but the very end, when he actually died, that was extremely sudden.

[quote]Those new teeth didn't get a lot of work before their retirement

He had the implants for 8 years, which is pretty good considering they have to be replaced every 10-20 years.

I have only one questia. Did a toothbrush ever touch that guy's teeth?

He probably grew up never properly brushing his teeth. The alcohol just added to it.

Sinead and Shane…Beauty and the beast.

[quote]He probably grew up never properly brushing his teeth. The alcohol just added to it.

He did drugs too; I think the combination of dry-mouth from drug use and not brushing probably did most of the damage, not the alcohol.

Yep, it's the drugs. Remember how bad David Bowie and Keith Richard's teeth used to be?

The other one I’m surprised is still around is Sean Ryder from Happy Mondays. Profiles of the band always catalogued what substances he was on. Lost his teeth too due to heroin and crack addictions. He’s 61 now.

And yet Pete Doherty lives!

Interesting little video.

Man, when people from the British isles are ugly they're UGLY.

Of course Johnny Depp turned up to his funeral.