{"id":38229,"date":"2023-12-01T11:07:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T11:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/?p=38229"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:22:19","slug":"shane-mcgowan-tributes-flood-in-for-former-pogues-frontman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/2023\/12\/01\/shane-mcgowan-tributes-flood-in-for-former-pogues-frontman\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane McGowan: Tributes flood in for former Pogues frontman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tributes have poured in for former Pogues frontman Shane McGowan from the likes of U2 and Paul Weller saying \u201cShane MacGowan\u2019s songs were perfect so he or we his fans didn&#8217;t have to be\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McGowan died after a battle with pneumonia, it was announced yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, said on Instagram that \u201che will always be the light that I hold before me\u2026 you meant the world to me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement, the President of Ireland Michael Higgins said: \u201cthe genius of Shane\u2019s contribution includes the fact that his songs capture within them\u2026 the measure of our dreams\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Dubliners and The Pogues play &quot;The Irish Rover&quot;.<br><br>One of the best live performances you will ever see. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b3s9P1cQow\">pic.twitter.com\/b3s9P1cQow<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Barry Malone (@malonebarry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/malonebarry\/status\/1730213213751357850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MacGowan was born in Kent on Christmas day 1957 and raised by two Irish parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He became the lead singer of The Pogues when the band was formed in London in 1982 until they disbanded in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The band had prominent success through the 1980s, including their 1988 album \u2018If I should fall from grace with god\u2019 which reached number 3 in the UK charts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shane MacGowan\u2019s songs were perfect so he or we his fans didn&#39;t have to be\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DZAHqOcAER\">pic.twitter.com\/DZAHqOcAER<\/a><\/p>&mdash; U2 (@U2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/U2\/status\/1730360280851554624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2018, MacGowan received a Lifetime Achievement Award by National Concert Hall and President Higgins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The singer-songwriter, known for hits like 1987\u2019s Christmas number 2 \u2018Fairytale of New York\u2019, was discharged from hospital a week prior to his passing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tributes have poured in for former Pogues frontman Shane McGowan from the likes of U2 and Paul Weller saying \u201cShane MacGowan\u2019s songs were perfect so he or we his fans didn&#8217;t have to be\u2026\u201d McGowan died after a battle with pneumonia, it was announced yesterday. His wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, said on Instagram that \u201che [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":38249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1766],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38229"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38268,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38229\/revisions\/38268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}