{"id":182008,"date":"2023-11-30T18:28:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T18:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?p=182008"},"modified":"2023-11-30T18:28:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T18:28:48","slug":"shane-macgowans-life-in-quotes-12-one-liners-from-the-pogues-rocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/shane-macgowans-life-in-quotes-12-one-liners-from-the-pogues-rocker\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane MacGowan's life in quotes: 12 one-liners from The Pogues rocker"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pogues front man Shane MacGowan was known as a great musician – but he will also be remembered for his witty one-liners about love, life and drinking.<\/p>\n
Praised for being the ‘greatest songwriter of his generation’ MacGowan was upfront and insightful off the stage and on.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Born in Pembury, England, to Irish parents, he was never short of a witty one-liner about life as a rock star, the benefits of drinking and American wrestling.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He had a funny quote on everything from marriage and religion to hamburgers and Greyhound buses.<\/p>\n
Here are twelve of the music legends’ best quotes:<\/p>\n
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The Pogues front man died on Thursday leaving a legacy of music and great quotes<\/p>\n
Speaking in a documentary about his life, Crock of Gold: A few rounds with Shane MacGowan, the musician said that when writing songs he just writes about the ‘Irish way of life’.<\/p>\n
It’s a philosophy he defined as: ‘Cram as much pleasure as you can into life and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.’<\/p>\n
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MacGowan died aged 65 after an eight-year battle with a brain condition. Earlier in his life, he had overcome alcoholism and a heroin addiction.<\/p>\n
MacGowan was a ‘proud Irishman’ and described the music style as ‘guts balls and feet music… frenetic dance music.’<\/p>\n
He said it ‘handles all sorts of subjects, from rebel songs to comical songs about sex’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He resisted being put into the category of a folk singer, saying: ‘I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It’s a living tradition, you know?’<\/p>\n
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MacGowan with his wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, and Kate Moss at his artwork exhibition in London<\/p>\n
MacGowan has been pictured with many famous women – and supermodels like Kate Moss – over the years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But he met his wife Victoria Mary Clarke aged 24, when she was just 16, and felt they were ‘destined to be together’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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MacGowan’s wife Victoria Mary Clarke shared a photo of the pair kissing on Instagram<\/p>\n
MacGowan met his wife Victoria Mary Clarke when she was just 16, but they waited four years to start dating.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They had a long relationship and tied the knot in November 2018 at Copenhagen City Hall with Johnny Depp, Shane’s longtime friend, playing the guitar during the low-key ceremony.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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MacGowan with beer can sculpture in the shape of a Celtic cross<\/p>\n
MacGowan was a Roman Catholic and described himself as ‘a free thinking religious fanatic’ who also prayed to Buddha.\u00a0<\/p>\n
MacGowan and his band The Popes wrote a 1994 song called The Church of the Holy Spook.<\/p>\n
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MacGowan live with the band the Popes at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin in 2003<\/p>\n
MacGowan faced a very public battle with alcohol and drug addiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He started drinking when he was a young child at his family home in Ireland which he described as like ‘living in a pub’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He once said that he hadn’t been sober for a single day since he was 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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McGowan attending the release party for the film ‘Hairspray’, at the Hippodrome in London in 1988<\/p>\n
The Pogues were hugely successful in America with sold-out tours and appearances on television.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As recently as 2011, the band played a six-city ten show sold out run in the US, titled ‘A Parting Glass with The Pogues’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Sinead O’Connor and MacGowan performing a duet of Fairytale of New York in 2006<\/p>\n
MacGowan has collaborated with stars from Johnny Depp to Sinead O’Connor.<\/p>\n
He also recorded with people like Nick Cave, the Jesus And Mary Chain, and the Dropkick Murphys.<\/p>\n
In 2018, Bono, Nick Cave and Sinead O’Connor, Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock and actor Johnny Depp joined MacGowan on stage for a show to celebrate his 60th birthday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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A young MacGowan he moved to England from Ireland as a child before breaking onto the music scene<\/p>\n
MacGowan was kicked out of the Pogues during a 1991 tour of Japan after he went on a series of hallucinogenic benders.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He then joined a new band, the Popes and performed with them for a decade until the Pogues reunited and toured together until 2014.<\/p>\n
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Macgowan in 1991 with a handlebar mustache and cigarette on stage at the Finsbury Park festival in London<\/p>\n
MacGowan spent months touring the US with the Pogues and enjoyed some elements of the states more than others.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He railed against fast food and highways, longing for a previous era, saying: ‘I hate the bloody highways. I hate hamburgers, I hate Greyhound buses. I’d have liked to have been in America during the Jazz Age, or the Golden Age of Hollywood.’<\/p>\n
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A young MacGowan in 1984 with a plaque for the band’s album Red Roses for Me<\/p>\n
MacGowan embraced the UK punk scene after he was expelled from Westminster School and sent to a psychiatric hospital for six months.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He first joined a band called the Nipple Erectors, performing under the name Shane O\u2019Hooligan, before forming The Pogues alongside musicians including Jem Finer and Spider Stacey.<\/p>\n
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MacGowan with his new set of teeth in Spain in 2009 – MacGowan was long known for having bad teeth after years of neglect. He lost his natural teeth in 2008 and wore fake teeth before getting a new set fitted in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of MacGowan’s other disappointments with America was the decline in violence in American wrestling.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He once said: ‘Wrestling used to be interesting. There was a bit of sham involved, of course, but there was some real wrestling involved. They’re just characters now. It’s unrecognizable.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘There’s no fighting in American bloody wrestling. They just yell at each other and jump around like overweight ballet dancers.’<\/p>\n