ZUM TOD DES IRISCHEN MUSIKERS, SÄNGERS UND SONGWRITERS SHANE MACGOWAN (THE POGUES)
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30.11.2023 Der am 25. Dezember 1957 in Tunbridge Wells (Kent, England) geborene irische Sänger, Musiker und Songwriter Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan (Bild) ist am 30. November 2023 gestorben. Er wurde als Sänger und Liederschreiber der Londoner Band The Pogues international bekannt. Zunächst wuchs er im irischen Tipperary auf, bevor die Familie 1964 wieder nach Südostengland zog und später unter anderem in Brighton und in London lebte. MacGowan besann sich auf seinen irischen Hintergrund, als er die Pogues gründete. Viele seiner Lieder befassen sich mit irischem Nationalismus, irischer Geschichte, den Erfahrungen der Iren in London und in den Vereinigten Staaten und dem allgemeinen Leben in London. MacGowan nannte häufig den irischen Dichter James Clarence Mangan und den Dramatiker Brendan Behan als Einflüsse. Zwischen 1985 und 1987 schrieb MacGowan mit anderen sein wahrscheinlich bekanntestes Lied, "Fairytale of New York", das er gemeinsam mit Kirsty MacColl sang. 2018 wurde ihm anlässlich seines 60. Geburtstags in der Dubliner National Concert Hall durch den Präsidenten von Irland, Michael D. Higgins, ein Preis für sein Lebenswerk verliehen. (*)
Bild: Shane MacGowan, 2011 - Foto: Redadeg - Lizenz: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en - Datei: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shane_macgowan.jpg
Shane MacGowan, The Pogues frontman and songwriter, dies aged 65
The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has died at the age of 65, his wife announced in an Instagram post.
The singer had been receiving care in St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin for an infection but was discharged last week ahead of his upcoming birthday on Christmas Day.
During the 1980s, he led the London Irish punk/folk band who are best known for their hit festive song Fairytale Of New York, which was released in 1987.
The death has been announced of Pogues frontman and songwriter Shane MacGowan. He was 65 and had been ill for some time.
In a statement shared on social media, The Pogues wrote: "It is with the deepest of sorrow and heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of Shane MacGowan.
(...) In a post on Instagram, MacGowan's wife, Victoria Mary Clarke wrote: "There's no way to describe the loss that I am feeling and the longing for just one more of his smiles that lit up my world.
"Thank you thank you thank you thank you for your presence in this world you made it so very bright and you gave so much joy to so many people with your heart and soul and your music.
"You will live in my heart forever. Rave on in the garden all wet with rain that you loved so much"
In a statement, President Michael D Higgins paid tribute to MacGowan, describing him as "one of music's greatest lyricists".
President Higgins said that so many of MacGowan's "songs would be perfectly crafted poems, if that would not have deprived us of the opportunity to hear him sing them.
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2023/1130/1419329-pogues-frontman-shane-macgowan-dies-aged-65/
Death of Fairytale of New York singer Shane MacGowan
After opening for The Clash on their 1984 tour, The Pogues rose to prominence with hits such as Dark Streets of London, a cover of Waxies’ Dargle and Boys from the County Hell. Their second album, Rum Sodomy & the Lash, produced by Elvis Costello, saw them move away from covers towards more originals, showcasing MacGowan’s obvious songwriting talents through songs like The Old Main Drag.
They grew in popularity over the next 10 years, releasing popular singles such as The Irish Rover with The Dubliners, and a cover of Ewan MacColl’s Dirty Old Town.
Their third album, If I Should Fall from Grace with God, featured one of their biggest hits, the duet Fairytale of New York alongside Kirsty MacColl, who died aged 41 in 2000 in a jet-ski incident.
Released in 1987, the single hit number one in the Irish charts over Christmas that year and number two in the UK. It would become a Christmas perennial across Ireland and the UK.
Hugh Dooley
Shane MacGowan: A life in pictures
Tributes have been flooding in since the news broke, from family, friends, fans, fellow musicians, and politicians.
MacGowan did a lot of living in his 65 years and he will long be remembered as one of Ireland's finest musicians.
Here we take a look back at the life and loves of the one and only Shane MacGowan.
Michelle McGlynn
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41280964.html
Tributes pour in for Shane MacGowan as President hails ‘one of the greatest lyricists’ and Imelda May says ‘may the road rise to meet you’
The Dáil stood for a minute's silence at 1.13pm to mark the death of Shane MacGowan, along with the recent passing of former Seanad Cathaoirleach Treas Honan.
The Tánaiste Micheál Martin also paid tribute to legendary musician in the Dáil.
Mr Martin told the House as Gaeilge that he wished to sympathise with Shane MacGowan’s wife Victoria Mary Clarke, and there was no doubt that his was a surpassing musical talent.
Denise Calnan, Amy Blaney and Darragh Nolan
Tributes paid to The Pogues legend
The Pogues legend Shane MacGowan has passed away at the age of 65, with tributes pouring in from the late stars fans and famous friends.
Sandra Mallon & Cathal Ryan
https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/irish-showbiz/shane-macgowan-dies-aged-65-31564448
Shane MacGowan RIP: Leave your tributes for The Pogues legend who has died aged 65
The Pogues legend Shane MacGowan has sadly passed away at the age of 65.
He had been ill for sometime, and was released from hospital last week. Shane was born in Kent in the UK to a Dublin father and Tipperary mum, and he was always proud of his Irish heritage.
Kim O’Leary
https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/shane-macgowan-rip-leave-your-28202858
Book of Condolence Shane MacGowan
Lord Mayor of Dublin Daithí de Róiste has opened an online Book of Condolence for the citizens of Dublin to extend their sympathies to the family of Shane MacGowan.
The Lord Mayor said, “On behalf of the people of Dublin I would like to express my condolences to Shane MacGowan’s family and many friends. I knew he had been very ill but today’s news still came as a shock, as I’m sure it did to many of us. It is especially poignant that the writer of one of the most universally loved Christmas songs has passed away at this time of year.
Shane was truly a one-off and his loss will be felt by people right across this city and indeed the entire country. I have opened a book of condolence in the Mansion House for people who would like to leave a message for Shane’s family in person, or online at Book Of Condolence Shane McGowan.
https://www.dublincity.ie/news/book-condolence-shane-macgowan
Shane MacGowan obituary
With his broken teeth and large ears, Shane MacGowan, who has died aged 65, might have seemed the most unlikely frontman for a pop group. But the Pogues never set out to become teen idols. They grafted punk style and attitude on to the raucous end of Irish folk music, as typified by their heroes the Dubliners, and Shane, in particular, gave the band a reputation for drunkenness.
Just like the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, who revolutionised Irish folk music from the distance of the New York diaspora, the first-generation, London-based Irish community spawned the Pogues. Indeed, MacGowan astutely observed that the band could not have originated in Ireland.
The key to the Pogues’ success was the songwriting of MacGowan, in such masterpieces as Streams of Whiskey and A Rainy Night in Soho, but above all in Fairytale of New York, on which he duetted with Kirsty MacColl.
Derek Schofield
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/30/shane-macgowan-obituary
Fairytale of New York: Shane MacGowan, music and excess’
The Pogues were once described as a tight, professional bunch of musicians fronted by a total shambles.
But the shambles, their charismatic singer Shane MacGowan, was heralded as one of the finest song writers and lyricists of his time.
The Pogues' great achievement was to successfully bring together traditional foot-stomping Irish music with the crashing chords of North London punk.
Like fellow Celts Brendan Behan and Dylan Thomas, MacGowan's source of inspiration was invariably alcoholic and he became as famous for his legendary excesses as he was for his music.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-20125315
A life too interesting
The songs of The Pogues are what happens when rural folk songs are hit over the head by the amphetamine punk spirit of 70s London.
But they are more than that. These "gutter hymns" of the Irish abroad are celebrations of tough lives that are sprinkled with wit, literary references and simple truth telling.
Shane MacGowan once said: "I couldn't believe that nobody else were doing it, so we went on doing it ourselves…"
David Sillito
Shane MacGowan, 1957-2023: an uncompromising, chaotic one of a kind
The Pogues frontman has died aged 65. NME remembers an Irish rock great whose love of literature, boozing and songcraft made him an unmissable character
Mark Beaumont
https://www.nme.com/features/music-features/shane-macgowan-obituary-the-pogues-3551303
Shane MacGowan, Pogues Lead Singer and Raspy Voice of Irish Punk Rock, Dead at 65
The Irish songwriter was a one-of-a-kind presence onstage with a poet's flair for lyricism
Kory Grow
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/shane-macgowan-pogues-dead-obit-1234809695/
Shane MacGowan’s Most Memorable Musical Moments, From the Pogues to His Signature Duets
Regarded for his wrenching, joyful lyricism as a bard of all things Irish, Shane MacGowan – the singer-songwriter known mostly for his work as frontman of the Celtic punk phenomenon the Pogues – was truly a tender poet of universal concern. Social blight, childhood dreams, national pride, coy romanticism, bloody Anglo-Irish politics, painful histories, the glee we get from raising a pint or 12: this is the stuff of MacGown’s finest songs, whether with the Pogues, his solo work or in collaboration with fellow punk poets Nick Cave, Joe Strummer and most famously, Kirsty MacColl.
A.D. Amorosi
Shane MacGowan, Pogues Songwriter Who Fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, Dies at 65
As frontman for the Pogues, he romanticized whiskey-soaked rambles and hard-luck stories of emigration, while providing a musical touchstone for members of the Irish diaspora.
Matt Phillips
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/arts/music/shane-macgowan-dead.html
Muere Shane MacGowan, de The Pogues, el poeta punk de Irlanda
El indomable líder de la banda, que pasó gran parte de su vida sumergido en alcohol y drogas, puso banda sonora a una generación de inmigrantes en el Reino Unido
Miguel Ezquiaga Fernández
È morto Shane MacGowan, i Pogues perdono la loro anima. “In Paradiso ci sono alcol, sigarette e canzoni irlandesi”
Il cantautore, colonna portante dei rivoluzionari Pogues, è morto a 65 anni. Da tempo era malato di encefalite
Giovanni Gagliardi
Shane MacGowan, chanteur des Pogues, "perdant magnifique", est mort
Le chanteur du groupe The Pogues contribua à redonner du sang neuf à un rock moribond, grâce à sa ferveur punk et à une passion sincère pour l’histoire et la musique folklorique irlandaises.
Franck Colombani
Der schönste anzunehmende Unfall der Popmusik
Shane MacGowan hat mit seiner Band The Pogues den Irish Folk charttauglich gemacht. Die Würdigung eines Musikers, der nicht nur wegen seiner Eskapaden in Erinnerung bleibt.
Andreas Busche
Aus irischer Sicht kann man 2023 wohl leider die Überschrift "The year the music died" geben.
Nach Sinéad O’Connor ist nun auch Shane MacGowan gestorben, der Sänger der Pogues. Wer diese Band aus Raufbolden auch nur einmal gehört oder gar gesehen hat, wird sie nicht wieder vergessen – sie sind eine Art albtraumhafte Verdichtung der Dubliners, die das wilde Leben des "Irish Rover" nicht nur besungen, sondern auch wie keine andere Band verkörpert haben – und dies besonders in der Gestalt MacGowans.
Jan Wiele
Die letzte Runde geht an ihn
Trinker und Dichter, Liebender und Suchender: Der Pogues-Sänger Shane MacGowan entsprach dem Bild der großen irischen Künstler, for better or worse.
André Boße
https://www.zeit.de/kultur/musik/2023-11/shane-mac-gowan-the-pogues-musiker-tod-nachruf
Er war ein Poet, ein Punk, ein Prediger
Shane MacGowan war der größte Volksdichter der irischen Popmusik, mit den Pogues hat er den Punkrock zurück zu den Wurzeln geführt. Und er hat getrunken, um zu leben.
Michael Pilz
Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker
Die Liebe, der Absturz, das Fremdsein in der Welt: Shane MacGowan, der nun mit 65 Jahren starb, erfand mit seiner Band The Pogues den Folkpunk und lieferte große Poesie über Dinge, die verloren gegangen sind.
Christian Buß
Ein irischer Nationalheiliger und Weltstar
Fliegerohren und Zähne, die wie eine Häuserzeile nach einem Erdbeben der Stärke 8,4 aussahen. Dazu ein Atem, der einen Alkometer zerstören konnte. Shane MacGowans Erscheinung konvenierte mit seinem Lebensstil, denn wenn er an die Öffentlichkeit trat, dann nicht selten mit einer Flasche Whiskey in der Hand.
Karl Fluch
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000197681/the-pogues-saenger-shane-macgowan-verstorben
Mit viel Mumm und Spontaneität
Mit seiner Band The Pogues lancierte Shane MacGowan in den frühen 1980er-Jahren eine punkige Renaissance der irischen Folkszene. Ihr Einfluss reichte weit über die Grenzen Londons hinaus: Sie zeigten, wie traditionelles Liedgut mit etwas Flair und Schwung auch in der heutigen Zeit noch eine vitale, menschenverbindende Rolle spielen konnte.
Überdies erwies sich MacGowan als begnadeter Lyriker, der es verstand, in Liedern wie «Dark Streets of London», «A Pair of Brown Eyes» und «Sally MacLennane» den Zeitgeist seiner Altersgenossen bündig und freudvoll auf den Punkt zu bringen.
Gerade ist Weihnachtszeit: eine Zeit, während der «Fairytale of New York», sein Duett mit der tragisch verstorbenen Kirsty MacColl und eines seiner schönsten Lieder überhaupt, in Grossbritannien wie jedes Jahr fast stündlich am Radio zu hören ist.
Hanspeter Künzler
https://www.srf.ch/kultur/musik/folkpunk-legende-gestorben-pogues-saenger-shane-macgowan-ist-tot
Der Punk-Prophet
Es ist ein Wunder, dass er so alt wurde. Sein ausschweifender Lebensstil hatte Shane MacGowan schwer gezeichnet. Seine Gesundheit war ruiniert durch das Dauer-Delirium, in das ihn sein jahrelanger Heroin- und Whisky-Konsum versetzte.
Christoph Wagner
Bild: Shane MacGowan, 1991 - Foto: Masao Nakagami, https://www.flickr.com/photos/goro_memo/285893246/ - Lizenz: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en - Datei: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shane-McGowan.jpg
Audios / Videos:
The Nipple Erectors - 'King of the Bop' (1978)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFTk4mHEtB4&t=3s
The Pogues - ‘Dark Streets of London’ (1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNQpMCxh-ww
The Pogues - ‘Waxies’ Dargle’ (1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WFBC-PEnTI
The Pogues - ‘The Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKURhqmSLmM
The Pogues - ‘Dirty Old Town’ (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pupVjQBwASo
The Pogues - 'A Pair of Brown Eyes' (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNtQ5AnRlz8&t=2s
The Pogues - 'A pair of brown eyes' (live) (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-3CxYV3BqY
The Pogues - ‘The Body of an American’ (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDoNvvc-fSY
The Pogues - 'A Rainy Night in Soho’ (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSyL-TrD_2g&t=1s
The Pogues - ‘Fairytale of New York’ (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8
The Pogues - ‘If I Should Fall From Grace With God’ (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS6DkktSrMA
The Pogues - ‘Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah’ (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-JdFM41RUg
The Pogues - 'The Sunnyside of the Street’ (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFarc3yjSC8
Nick Cave & Shane MacGowan - 'What A Wonderful World' (Official) (1992) Digitally Remastered and Upscaled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUfTgw-ViPM&t=1s
Shane MacGowan - 'That Woman's Got Me Drinking' - Version 1, featuring Johnny Depp (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7loBPuRjVo
Shane MacGowan with Sinead O'Connor - 'Haunted' (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q7307IWwr4&t=1s
Shane McGowan - 'My Way' (1996)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeYBqMi_UTs&t=1s
The Pogues - 'Fiesta'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pYI9t-I6qo
Shane MacGowan & Friends - 'I Put A Spell On You', Concern Worldwide's work in Haiti (HD Remastered)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okWavZzv5M8
Shane MacGowan and the Popes - 'The Church Of The Holy Spook' (2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZumb3Xqryc
Shane and Sinéad, Birmingham 81
The Pogues singing 'Dirty Old Town' drunk in a pub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJx5GJFyy9Q
ronnie drew the dubliners & the pogues irish rover late late show RTE ireland 1987
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdRgX1nSelE
'Spancil Hill' - Shane MacGowan & Christy Moore, 1994
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqlLJXYtRWg
Julien Temple Interview | SHANE (CROCK OF GOLD: A FEW ROUNDS WITH SHANE MACGOWAN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGhVb0XlQXA
Director Julien Temple Talks 'Crock of Gold' And Interviewing Shane MacGowan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoCl57GOOcE
Shane MacGowan - Interview On The Jack Doherty Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxVo_2gtHl4
Shane MacGowan - interview London 2004 HD
FOLK BRITANNIA - BETWEEN THE WARS Pt 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcS_Kxduiog&t=338s
late late show with shane macgowan 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otVTYS1fR6c
Shane MacGowan Talks Mortality | The Ray D'Arcy Show | RTÉ One, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzXUFsfPDm0
Mehr:
https://www.shanemacgowan.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ShaneMacGowanOfficial
https://twitter.com/ShaneMacGowan
https://shanemacgowan.lnk.to/Spotify
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2023/1130/1419346-shane-macgowan-a-life-in-pictures/
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2023/1130/1419331-shane-mcgowan-twilight-of-a-celtic-champion/
https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/257024-Shane-MacGowan
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/shane-macgowan-mn0000792831
https://web.archive.org/web/20211223115658/http://www.shanemacgowan.de/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0532287/
https://www.moviepilot.de/movies/shane
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/14/shane-macgowan-60-musical-legacy-pogues
https://taz.de/Doku-ueber-Pogues-Saenger-MacGowan/!5793421/
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d41a6875-b626-4c0f-89a1-aecb643d29ff
http://p.bruhat.free.fr/pogues/pog-live.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pogues
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pogues
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_MacGowan
(*) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_MacGowan
#ShaneMacGowan #ThePogues #CHcultura @CHculturaCH ∆cultura cultura+
Shane MacGowan receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, in the National Concert Hall, Dublin, on 15th November 2018. - Foto: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bastun - Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en - Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shane_MacGowan_Lifetime_Achievement.jpg
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Nachtrag vom 01.12.2023:
Erinnerung an Schweizer Auftritt: Shane MacGowan lieferte ein wildes Spektakel – und ging nach sieben Songs
Er war noch keine 30 und gesundheitlich völlig hinüber: Der diese Woche verstorbene Sänger gab mit den Pogues in Zürich ein ekstatisches, trunkenes Konzert.
Jean-Martin Büttner
