Shane MacGowan was 'a soundtrack to our lives and a voice for the Irish in London'

The media outpouring after the death last Thursday at 65 of the great Shane MacGowan is getting one thing wrong. The Pogues were never an Irish band and they were never a band whose intention was to popularise Irish traditional music.

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