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The world also said goodbye to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who died Nov. 29. Political Cartoons View All 1277 ImagesAnother political figure who died this year was former U.S. first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died Nov. 19. Among the entertainers who left the world this year was singer Tina Turner, who died May 24. Here is a roll call of some influential figures who died in 2023 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available):___JANUARY___Fred White, 67. A Hall of Fame forward who helped the Chicago Blackhawks win the 1961 Stanley Cup Final.

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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

☆ In Dublin’s Pubs, Raising a Farewell Pint to Shane MacGowan
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Ed O Loughlin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Christmas came early this year in Dublin, but too late for a beloved adopted son. On the last evening in November, a wet Thursday, cars at the rush hour stop lights blared “Fairytale of New York” on a thousand radios. From the sidewalk, you could hear drivers and passengers singing along: “The boys from the N.Y.P.D. choir still singing ‘Galway Bay,’ and the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day.”The song’s renowned lyricist and co-writer, Shane MacGowan, the British-born frontman of the punk-folk band the Pogues, died earlier that day. Ireland — his greatest muse, and ancestral home — was coming to terms with a death that had, thanks to MacGowan’s well-known addictions to alcohol and drugs, long been foretold.

Persons: Shane MacGowan, —, MacGowan Organizations: Galway, Christmas, Ireland, Big Apple Locations: Dublin, York, ’, British

☆ Shane MacGowan, Pogues Frontman and Punk Bard of the Irish Diaspora, Dead at 65
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Rob Curran | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Shane MacGowan sneered at the audience, baring his distinctive snaggled teeth. With his doughy face and plug ears, he looked like a heavyweight swaying in his corner as the bell for the 15th round sounded for the last time. Fumbling for the bottle of spirits at his feet, he eventually gave up the job and headed backstage to fetch another. From an outdoor stage in Thurles, Tipperary, MacGowan then launched into Ewan MacColl’s “Dirty Old Town,” his wise, raspy baritone sounding every bit as full as on the record. The entire stadium sang as one, slightly slurred voice.

Persons: Shane MacGowan sneered, baring, MacGowan, Ewan MacColl’s “, ” Organizations: Tipperary Locations: Thurles, Ireland

☆ 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, hard-drinking poet of The Pogues, dies at 65
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Conor Humphries | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

[1/2] Shane MacGowan, former lead singer of The Pogues, performs during the Montreux Jazz festival in the [Miles Davis] Hall late July 15, 1995. MacGowan and his band The Popes were part of the 'Irish Night' during the festival. MacGowan brought Irish traditional music to a huge new audience in the late 1980s by splicing it with punk, and achieved mainstream success with his bittersweet, expletive-strewn 1987 Christmas anthem "Fairytale of New York". Irish President Michael D. Higgins, also a poet, described MacGowan on Thursday as one of music's greatest lyricists. Following a decade with a new band, the Popes, MacGowan and the Pogues reunited and toured regularly until 2014.

Persons: Shane MacGowan, Miles Davis, MacGowan, Stringer, Pogues, Nick Cave, Victoria Mary Clarke, Jesus, Mary, Therese, Pogue Mahone, Elvis Costello, Joe Strummer, Michael D, Higgins, Kirsty MacColl, Bono, Sinead O'Connor, Glen Matlock, Johnny Depp, Cave, Muvija M, Graham Fahy, Conor Humphries, Padraic Halpin, Alex Richardson, Andrew Heavens Organizations: Montreux Jazz, Hall, Guardian, Westminster School, Pogues, Sex, Thomson Locations: Kent, Ireland, DUBLIN, London, Irish, York, English, Soho, Siam, New Zealand, Japan

☆ Shane MacGowan, lead singer of The Pogues, dead at 65
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Jack Guy | Niamh Kennedy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

London CNN —Shane MacGowan, the lead singer of Anglo-Irish band The Pogues, has died, according to a statement from his wife, Victoria Mary Clarke. The singer had been discharged from Dublin’s St. Vincent’s Hospital on November 22 after receiving treatment there for an infection, Clarke said. And MacGowan received a full set of dental implants in 2015 after losing several teeth as a result of his heavy drug and alcohol use. Born in Kent, England in 1957 to Irish parents, MacGowan spent his summers in a farmhouse in southern Ireland, surrounded by traditional Irish music. He formed his band, The Pogues, in London in 1982 with Peter “Spider” Stacy, Jem Finer and James Fearnley, blending traditional Irish folk music with punk sounds.

Persons: London CNN — Shane MacGowan, Victoria Mary Clarke, Clarke, ”, Shane MacGowan, Kirsty MacColl, Brian Rasic, ” MacGowan, MacGowan, Peter “ Spider ” Stacy, Jem, James Fearnley, Ireland’s, Leo Varadkar, Michael D, Higgins, MacGowan’s Organizations: London CNN, Vincent’s Hospital Locations: Dublin’s St, Kent , England, Ireland, London, York, ”

☆ Irish singer Shane MacGowan dies at 65
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Musician Shane MacGowan departs the funeral service of his mother Therese MacGowan at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Silvermines, Ireland January 8, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsDUBLIN, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Shane MacGowan, the London-Irish singer with The Pogues celebrated as one of Ireland's greatest song writers, has died, his wife said on Thursday. MacGowan, who transformed Irish traditional music with The Pogues and penned some of the most haunting ballads of the 1980s' before sinking into alcohol and drug addiction, died after a prolonged period of ill health. MacGowan achieved mainstream success with his bittersweet, expletive-strewn 1987 Christmas anthem "Fairytale of New York. Reporting by Muvija M, Graham Fahy and Conor Humphries; Editing by Kate Holton and Bernadette BaumOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Shane MacGowan, Therese MacGowan, Clodagh, MacGowan, Shane, Jesus, Mary, Therese, Victoria Mary Clarke, " MacGowan, Muvija M, Graham Fahy, Conor Humphries, Kate Holton, Bernadette Baum Organizations: Lourdes Church, REUTERS, Rights, London -, Pogues, Thomson Locations: Silvermines, Ireland, London, London - Irish, Irish, New York

☆ Shane MacGowan, Songwriter Who Fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, Dies at 65
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Matt Phillips | More About Matt Phillips | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

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. Mr. MacGowan’s wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, announced his death on Instagram. Mr. MacGowan emerged from London’s punk scene of 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. Along the way, Mr. MacGowan earned twin reputations as a titanically destructive personality and a master songsmith whose lyrics painted vivid portraits of the underbelly of Irish emigrant life.

Persons: Shane MacGowan, MacGowan’s, Victoria Mary Clarke, MacGowan, ’, ” Organizations: Pogues Locations: North London, New York

☆ 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

LONDON (AP) — Shane Macgowan, the singer-songwriter and frontman of The Pogues, best known for their ballad “Fairytale of New York,” died Thursday, his family said. “It is with the deepest sorrow and heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of our most beautiful, darling and dearly beloved Shane Macgowan,” his wife Victoria Clarke, his sister Siobhan and father Maurice said in a statement. The singer died peacefully with his family by his side, the statement added. Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Persons: — Shane Macgowan, ”, Shane Macgowan, Victoria Clarke, Siobhan, Maurice Organizations: Pogues, Associated Press Locations: York

☆ Kirsty MacColl’s Voice Was Singular. A New Box Aims to Bring It Wider.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Bob Mehr | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“It revealed to people what you could do with those very spare songs of mine,” Bragg said, “that they were capable of being made to great big pop numbers. In 1986, MacColl sang on the Smiths single “Ask” and became a close friend and collaborator of the band’s guitarist, Johnny Marr. Later, when asked how she came up with the sequence, she shrugged: “Well, I put the song I liked best first, and the second best, second … and so on.”Bragg laughed, recalling the anecdote. A duet about a bickering couple on Christmas Eve, the song was originally sung on a demo by the Pogues’ frontman Shane MacGowan and bassist Cait O’Riordan. By the time the group cut it, O’Riordan had left the band, and the track needed a powerful female voice.

Persons: MacColl, Jamie, Louis, Billy Bragg’s “, ” Bragg, Kirsty, ”, Robert Plant, ” Lillywhite, Johnny Marr, “, ” Marr, Joshua Tree, Lillywhite, “ That’s, Shane MacGowan, Cait O’Riordan, O’Riordan Organizations: England ”, Lillywhite, Pogues Locations: England, York

☆ Sinead O'Connor was found unresponsive at London address - UK police
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

LONDON, July 27 (Reuters) - Irish singer Sinead O'Connor, who died on Wednesday aged 56, was found unresponsive at an address in London and pronounced dead at the scene, London's Metropolitan Police said. Artists around the world have reacted to the news, with REM frontman Michael Stipe, U.S. musician Tori Amos and Irish singer Shane MacGowan among those who paid tribute to O'Connor's fierce honesty, intense presence and uncompromising spirit. "Police were called at 11:18hrs on Wednesday, 26 July to reports of an unresponsive woman at a residential address ... Officers attended. A 56-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene," the Met Police said in a statement. Reporting by Farouq Suleiman and Kylie MacLellan; Editing by Kate HoltonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Sinead O'Connor, Michael Stipe, Tori Amos, Shane MacGowan, Farouq Suleiman, Kylie MacLellan, Kate Holton Organizations: London's Metropolitan Police, Artists, Police, Met Police, Thomson Locations: London

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