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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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