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10 hours ago, Mekong said:

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.
 

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I remember working on a concert of theirs at a pub in Oz, he was so fucked up the tour organiser called a dodgy doctor who gave him a massive injection of various things that got him up and on stage

 

Great show

 

Amazed he lived as long as he did

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John Pilger, an Australia-born journalist and documentary filmmaker known for his coverage of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, has died, his family said Sunday. He was 84.

Had dinner with him a couple of times in Sydney. Interesting character.

John Pilger exposed genocide in Cambodia

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