A Drink with Shane MacGowan by Victoria Mary Clarke
This bibulous, drug-indulgent and anarchic rock legend was born on a small farm in Tipperary, won a scholarship to Westminster, was rapidly expelled, became a rent boy, then a central figure of punk and the hugely influential star of The Pogues. MacGowan's music, innovative and powerful, is as distinctive as his chaotic, breakdown-scarred, drug and alcohol-fuelled lifestyle. MacGowan has an enormous fan-base hungry for stories of his wild behaviour, but this is also a book that celebrates this unique and charming musician, and offers insight into his remarkable perspective on this world - and the next! 'One of the freshest, most original biographies I've ever read ...Buy the book, it's great.' Lynn Barber, The Observer 'All human life is here.' Q Magazine
'One of the freshest, most original biographies I've ever read.. Buy the book, it's great.' Lynn Barber, The Observer 'All human life is here.' Q Magazine
Victoria Mary Clarke spent her childhood in west Cork, with hippy parents, no running water and no TV. At eighteen she moved to London, fell in love with Shane MacGowan and into a life of debauchery. She has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Independent and Paris Vogue, and is the author of Angel in Disguise? and A Drink With Shane MacGowan. Shane MacGowan, who died on 30 November 2023, was an Irish musician and singer, best known as the lead singer and songwriter the Pogues. He was fired from the band in 1991 and went on to form The Popes before being reunited with the Pogues in 2001. He was the co-author, along with his long-time girlfriend Victoria Mary Clarke, of the autobiography A Drink With Shane MacGowan.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330490085 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330490087 |
| Title | A Drink with Shane MacGowan |
| Author | Victoria Mary Clarke |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2002-03-08 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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