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Shane MacGowan's will left widow less than €1 million
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Texas singer Sharleen Spiteri chows down at The Dover, lets loose at The Cow and drops an F-bomb or two over a certain renaming of Overground lines
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Bruce Springsteen opens Kilkenny gig with rousing tribute to Shane MacGowan
Bruce Springsteen used his concert in Kilkenny to pay tribute to Ireland's very own Shane MacGowan.
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Bruce Springsteen pays emotional tribute to Shane MacGowan as he opens Irish gig
Springsteen paid tribute to MacGowan as he opened the gig in a cover of The Pogues' 'A Rainy Night in Soho'
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‘Shane MacGowan insisted I Nazi salute him’: behind the scenes of A Song for Eurotrash
In the mid-1990s, a young music producer named Nick Bradshaw sat in a bar with his friend, The Specials’ Terry Hall, discussing a bizarre brainwave he’d had involving enlisting credible artists to cover Eurovision winners. “When Terry smiled, not something he is renowned for, I knew this idea actually stood a chance of getting somewhere,” recalled Bradshaw in 1998.
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The Pogues review – triumphant tribute to energy and poetry of band’s early days
An inspired cast of guests from Nadine Shah to Jim Sclavunos stand in for the late Shane MacGowan in a raucous run-through of the band’s debut album and other highlights
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‘It meant so much to him’: Shane MacGowan’s wife on the hunt for his missing Easter Rising rifle
A widespread search has been sparked after Victoria Mary Clarke noticed a rifle owned by the late Pogues frontman was gone. She explains why this piece of history was one of the few possessions he cherished
