It is with the deepest sorrow and heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of our most beautiful, darling and dearly beloved Shane Macgowan, his wife Victoria Clarke, his sister Siobhan and father Maurice said in a statement.
The Pogues' most famous song, Fairytale of New York, is a bittersweet Christmas classic that opens with the decidedly unfestive words: 'It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank.'
His songs blended the scabrous and the sentimental, ranging from carousing anthems to snapshots of life in the gutter to unexpectedly tender love songs.
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