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☆ The Real Story Behind Shane MacGowan’s ‘Boys of the N.Y.P.D. Choir’
  + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Michael Wilson | More About Michael Wilson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
“Fairytale of New York” also immortalizes a specific group of people doing a specific thing:“The boys of the N.Y.P.D. Choir,” Mr. MacGowan belted, “were singing ‘Galway Bay.’”Years later, the truth can be told: The boys of the N.Y.P.D. Choir did not know the words to “Galway Bay.”Also, there was no N.Y.P.D. He spun a tale that felt grounded in a real place and conjured from iconic streetscapes, where the wind goes right through you and it’s no place for the old. People who have never set foot in the city can imagine the drunk tank, and the man and woman kissing on the corner and dancing through the night.
Persons: Shane, Frank Sinatra, York ”, ” Mr, MacGowan, ’ ”, Mr, ” Organizations: Galway, Pogues Locations: New York, York, Galway Bay
☆ The Complex, Enduring Friendship of Shane MacGowan and Sinead O’Connor
  + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Amanda Hess | More About Amanda Hess | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
In a 2021 biography of MacGowan, O’Connor recalled performing a version of “Haunted” with him while he was using heroin. “The producers were freaking out because Shane was nodding out on smack in between the verses,” she told MacGowan’s biographer, Richard Balls. O’Connor and MacGowan first encountered each other in the 1980s in London, MacGowan told me over email in 2021, though he did not remember the exact circumstances. “In the locked ward where they put you if you’re suicidal, there’s more class A drugs than in Shane MacGowan’s dressing room,” she wrote. Shane MacGowan sounds Irish.” In our interview, MacGowan called O’Connor “a brilliant singer and a brilliant Irish singer, one of the best.”
Persons: MacGowan, O’Connor, Shane, ”, MacGowan’s, Richard Balls, “, Moya Brennan, Joey Cashman, Joey, “ Rememberings, ” O’Connor, Shane MacGowan’s, Bob Geldof, ” Geldof, “ Bono, Shane MacGowan Organizations: Pogues, “ Locations: London, St, Dublin, Irish
☆ Shane MacGowan’s 9 Essential Songs
  + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Gavin Edwards | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Shane MacGowan, the principal singer and songwriter for the Pogues, first became famous in London as “Shane O’Hooligan”: After his ear got bitten in the scrum of a 1976 concert, his photo was featured in the NME weekly music paper with the headline “Cannibalism at Clash Gig.”MacGowan, who died on Thursday, was a punk enthusiast (with a fanzine called “Bondage”) without much certainty on how to contribute to the scene beyond bleeding all over it. Before the Pogues, MacGowan toyed with playing Cretan music, with making rock seasoned with industrial noise, even with starting an imperial-Rome act where band members would wear togas and gladiator outfits. Although MacGowan spent most of his youth in England, his parents were Irish: Once he settled on mixing punk rock with traditional Celtic music, he found his natural idiom.
Persons: Shane MacGowan, Shane O’Hooligan ”, ” MacGowan, MacGowan Organizations: Pogues Locations: London, Rome, England
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