Reply With Quote'Rainy Night in Soho' if there was a god.Originally Posted by splott parker
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Shane McGowan, I wonder what the Christmas No.1 will be?
'Rainy Night in Soho' if there was a god.
Shane McGone
Dirty Ol' Town for me
It is a miracle that he lived so long. He seems to have had one foot in the grave for over 40 years!
One of my favourite songwriters ever. A one off.
Great song, written by Kirsty MacColls father so I voted for a MacGowan song.
A mate has just WhatsApped "it's a shame but he's been a dead pool coupon buster for years. Just waiting on someone to put on twatter a pic of him and Kirsty MacColl with the words 'Back together for Christmas" to round it all off.
Great stories in his songs.
Broad Majestic Shannon is a favourite for that.
It says on Twitter he'd "been ill for some time" so you might not be far off, he never looked well.
65 is way too young normally but the way he lived his life, not too bad an innings.
Keeping with the cricketing analogy, he certainly was no Geoff Boycott, more of an Ian Botham.
RIP Shane.
Kirsty was a looker with that red hair
Agreed, amazing he made it to sixty five - used to love the Pogues.
RIP
Fantastic lyricist and a fascinating life. The biography written by his wife (I believe?) is well worth picking up.
Well I never knew that, and the Kirsty McColl connection too.
Your choice is a good un too
A few tributes floating about today, this one popped up.
This one from Justin Hawkins from whom I learnt something else today, the origin of the Pogues band name...
https://youtu.be/z1Mn0vNUAd8?si=lCKyb4JEUdxQHfSY
I find Justin Hawkins a tiresome watch.
Great guitarist but a one trick pony
Darkness were superb live were a party band but difficult to take them seriously which is what he wanted
In the early 1980s, he joined with Peter “Spider” Stacy and other members of a punk band called the Millwall Chainsaws to form Pogue Mahone, a corruption of the Gaelic insult “póg mo thóin,” or “kiss my arse.” They changed the band's name to the Pogues to avoid confronting censorship rules by the BBC and others.
Philip Chevron was formerly in the Irish punk band The Radiators from Space. I saw them support Thin Lizzy in the Capitol December 1977. I'd say my favourite Pogues song was actually written by him - Thousands Are Sailing - but it's a tough choice, they had so many classics. I only saw them with Shane once, and once with Joe Strummer on vocals. It's a huge shame he has died but he really was in an awful state over recent years. I can't see how he could have had any quality of life.
One of my favourite bands, particularly anything they did with the Dubliners, who are also one of my favourite bands.
I love this grainy, short video of them in a a a French bar somewhere. Nothing to it really, but that's the point I guess.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UJx5GJ...ZW5jaCBiYXI%3D
I was there
If it's anything it'll be that Christmas song, which I'm frankly sick of.
Last time i saw them live was in the Roseland on St.Patrick's day 2008!
If it's anything it'll be that Christmas song, which I'm frankly sick of.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-actress.html
And again tonight
Ah Brigit Forsyth.
She was hot.
Forever Thelma, hard to think of her as being in her 80s. RIP
Never was much of a fan of Open All Hours as proven by the fact that I didn't know she was in it until this morning.
RIP
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