THE Columbia Hotel in London is famed as a home away from home for travelling musicians and singers visiting the British capital and invariably you might bump into someone you’d know.
Shane MacGowan, iconic frontman of the Irish punk group The Pogues and the voice of Irish angst, has passed away following a long battle with ill health.
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Shane MacGowan was among the most talented song-writers of his generation, a performer with remarkable stage presence and a Rabelaisian character who based his hard-drinking lifestyle on bohemian Dublin characters like Brendan Behan and Gainor Crist the feckless anti-hero of The Ginger Man.
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