How Shane MacGowan first tried to make it on the punk scene by calling himself Shane O'Hooligan and pretending to enjoy cannibalism at gigs - before he created The Pogues and became the widely-loved genius behind Fairytale of New York

From his gilded beginnings at private schools, MacGowan transformed himself into the drunken icon of Irish music, a man who first hit the news pages under the headline: 'Cannablism at Clash gig'.

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