SHANE MACGOWAN HAS died aged 65.

The influential musician, songwriter and singer was best known as the lead singer and songwriter of The Pogues.

  • Tangled Slinky@infosec.pubEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    I hate that this will get overshadowed by the news about Kissinger. The man was an absolute bard and will be sorely missed.

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Now you’ll sing a song of liberty for blacks and paks and jocks
    And they’ll take you from this dump you’re in and stick you in a box
    Then they’ll take you to Cloughprior and shove you in the ground
    But you’ll stick your head back out and shout “We’ll have another round”

  • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Him: I could have been someone

    Her: Well, so could anyone
    Her: You took my dreams from me
    Her: When I first found you

    Him: I kept them with me, babe
    Him: I put them with my own
    Him: Can’t make it all alone
    Him: I’ve built my dreams around you

    -Fairytale of New York

    In Manhattan’s desert twilight
    In the death of afternoon
    We stepped hand in hand on Broadway
    Like the first man on the moon

    And “The Blackbird” broke the silence
    As you whistled it so sweet
    And in Brendan Behan’s footsteps
    I danced up and down the street

    -Thousands are Sailing

  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    The dying days… its always comes in waves and it will be more and more as these people who created the events of the 60’s, 70’s and now the 80’s come to the end of their days.

    I wasn’t a huge fan of the Pogues but damn they had a singularity about them. Nothing compares to their sound and the lyrics, especially in a punk setting.