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Shane MacGowan
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Shane MacGowan was an Irish musician, singer, and songwriter. Born Patrick Shane Lysaght MacGowan in Pembury, Kent, England, in 1957, he was educated at Westminster School. His career began in 1977, and he performed in the genres of folk music and punk rock. He played the guitar and sang in a baritone voice. He was a member of the bands The Nips, Shane MacGowan and The Popes, and The Pogues.
MacGowan also worked as a film actor. His notable works include the albums *Poguetry* and *A drink with Shane MacGowan*. He was influenced by the Sex Pistols and Brendan Behan. His works are held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. He was represented in copyright by PRS for Music. MacGowan died on 30 November 2023.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1957
- Died
- 30 November 2023
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Poguetry
- A drink with Shane MacGowan
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Pembury, Kent, England, UK
Shane MacGowan was an Irish singer and songwriter.
Known for
- Saipan — Self (archive footage)2025
- Kirsty MacColl at the BBC — Self (archive footage)2024
- The Ulysses Project — Self2022
- Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan — Self2020
- Two Sevens Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers — Self2017
- Irish Rock at the BBC — Self2015
- Basically, Johnny Moped — Self2013
- The Pogues in Paris: 30th Anniversary Concert2012
- If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story — Self2007
- The Pogues: Poguevision2006
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1957
- Active to
- 2023
Discography
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 52,490
- Total plays
- 260,951
Tags
Shane MacGowan (December 25, 1957 - November 30, 2023) was best known as the original singer and songwriter with The Pogues, and is considered one of the most important and poetic Irish songwriters of the last thirty years. MacGowan drew on his Irish heritage to create The Pogues, a band that he founded, but from which he was away during a long hiatus in the 1990s. Many of his songs are influenced by Irish nationalism, Irish history, the experiences of the Irish in London and in London life in
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 23,758x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,966x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- Twelve years of SAMtools and BCFtools
· 2021 · cited 15,689x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan , ( 1957-12-25 ) 25 December 1957, Pembury , Kent, England
- Died
- 30 November 2023 (2023-11-30) (aged 65), Dublin , Ireland
- Other name
- Shane O'Hooligan
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom Ireland
- Occupations
- Singer-songwriter musician
- Years active
- 1977–2023
- Spouse
- Victoria Mary Clarke ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2018 )
- Relatives
- Siobhan MacGowan (sister)
- Genres
- Celtic punk Celtic rock folk punk folk rock
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar piano bodhrán banjo
- Formerly of
- The Pogues Shane MacGowan and The Popes The Nipple Erectors The Shane Gang The New Republicans
- Website
- shanemacgowan .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Patrick
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Pembury
- Place of death
- Dublin
- Occupation
- lyricist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- punk rock
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.shanemacgowan.com
- Image
- Shane-MacGowan.jpg
- Voice type
- baritone
Show 12 more facts
- Commons category
- Shane MacGowan
- date of birth
- 1957-12-25
- birth name
- Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan
- start of work period
- 1977-00-00
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- member of
- The Pogues
- copyright representative
- PRS for Music
- name in native language
- Shane MacGowan
- influenced by
- Brendan Behan
- date of death
- 2023-11-30
- medical condition
- viral encephalitis
- end of work period
- 2023-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan (25 December 1957 – 30 November 2023) was an English-born Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and poet. Best known as the original lead vocalist and primary lyricist of Celtic punk band the Pogues, MacGowan was an acclaimed songwriter whose lyrics often focused on the Irish emigrant experience. He also received widespread media attention for his personal life, which included decades of heavy alcohol and drug abuse.
As a teenager, MacGowan became active on the London punk scene under the alias Shane O'Hooligan. In 1977, with then-girlfriend Shanne Bradley, he co-founded his first band, the Nips. In 1982, with Spider Stacy and Jem Finer, he co-founded the Pogues, who fused punk influences with traditional Irish music. MacGowan was the principal songwriter and lead vocalist on the band's first five studio albums, including Rum Sodomy & the Lash (1985) and the critically acclaimed and commercially successful If I Should Fall from Grace with God (1988). MacGowan and Finer co-wrote the Christmas hit single "Fairytale of New York" (1987), which MacGowan recorded as a duet with Kirsty MacColl; the song remains a Christmas favourite in Ireland and Britain and was certified sextuple platinum in the UK in 2023.
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