Notices tagged with macgowan
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Oh, to have been a fly on the wall: "When Shane #MacGowan and the Popes were playing The House Of Blues, I took Shane down to the bar…to see if Little Richard was there. And when we walked in and heard his Wop-bop-a-loo-bop voice above the crowd, we went right over to where that sound was coming from, and I got to introduce the Irish songwriting legend to the inventor of ro…
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#MacGowan says to Cave "Once things start to look grotesque I don't write them or sing them. I couldn't write them the way you do, I couldn't – making nightmares into living daylight...", but I've had "Rake at the Gates of Hell" going through my head for the last couple of weeks: "I'll be with them asleep and dreaming I'll be there when they wake with screaming At the hour …
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#RIP MES; your work-shy demise made the world is much less dark, sadly. Shane Patrick Lysaght #MacGowan hasn't written so much as a shopping list for twenty years, and his thrice-broken hip plus the passing of the indispensable Philip Chevron has put an end to #Pogues nostalgia gigs. For all I know, Nick Cave is playing Las Vegas.
Matthew Davidson
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