Shane MacGowan, a legendary Irish singer and songwriter who was the frontman for the band ‘The Pogues’, has reportedly died at the age of 65. Mr. MacGowan’s wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, said he died of pneumonia in a hospital. Mr. MacGowan emerged from London’s punk scene in the late 1970s and spent nine tumultuous years with the initial incarnation of the Pogues. He later founded Shane MacGowan & the Popes, with whom he recorded and toured in the 1990s. As frontman for the Pogues, he romanticized whiskey-soaked rambles and hard-luck stories of emigration, while providing a musical touchstone for members of the Irish diaspora.

Source: New York Times December 02, 2023 17:06 UTC