Lead singer of the British Celtic punk band The Pogues, Shane MacGowan, best known for his controversial Christmas song. new york fairy taleHe was hospitalized, his wife said on Twitter.
He is “in hospital again and really hopes to be out as soon as possible,” his wife Victoria Clarke tweeted on Monday, posting a photo of the 64-year-old singer sitting in an armchair.
80s punk figure
Shane MacGowan, born in England in 1957 to Irish parents, founded the group The Pogues in 1982. He would then play Irish ballads in pubs, played at a hundred miles an hour by musicians merrily blending Irish rhythms and punk energy.
Combining boozy and Celtic legends, The Pogues became the political voice of young Irish immigrants in London in the 1980s, anti-Thatcher and anti-censorship.
First hospitalization in 2016
Shane MacGowan had already been hospitalized in 2016 after breaking his pelvis. His wife then revealed that the iconic singer was finally sober, he whose career was marked by alcoholism. On social media, fans wished him a speedy recovery on Tuesday, at times associating Shane MacGowan with the “Christmas sound”.
The Pogues’ greatest commercial success is, in fact, new york fairy talea 1987 duet between Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl that has become a Christmas classic that is selling like hot cakes in Ireland and the UK.
The BBC tried to redact the insulting exchanges between two old lovers in the song “You’re scum, you’re a maggot, you’re a cheap, filthy faggot” You’re an old slut on the junk (“And you an old slut cameo”) , but had to give it up before the general clamor.
Source: BFM TV
