R.I.P. Shane...

[nice90sguy]

 

[SyleusSnow]

Fairytale was their biggest hit, but I love this video of them playing with The Dubliners. The old guard and the new hotness performing together (and Shane being maximum Shane)

 

[HordHolm]

So many great tracks... Fiesta... White City... A Rainy Night in Soho... Sally MacLennane... Thousands Are Sailing... The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn... The Body of an American...

Fairytale of New York is a great, no doubt about it, but Shane and the Pogues were so much more than that....

 

[LucieLou007]

Such a sad day may he R.I.P

 

[StillStunned]

I think my favourite it The Turkish Song of the Damned. But Fairytale comes very close. Guess what's going to be No. 1 this year?

Also a shout-out to Kirsty MacColl, who died tragically and far too young. If you don't know it, look up "There's A Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis".

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Also a shout-out to Kirsty MacColl, who died tragically and far too young. If you don't know it, look up "There's A Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis".

Kirsty was great. She also covered Billy Bragg's A New England.

Fairytale at no.1 would be a nice silver lining. And we'll get some McGowan retrospectives on TV. I'm just glad the sausage-roll duo have decided not to try for a Xmas no.1 this year. Not that I listen to the kinds of radio that play chart music...

 

[nice90sguy]

I can't help feeling he'd be relieved not to have to endure another round of "Fairytale" blaring out of every shop and pub this Xmas

 

[HordHolm]

Kirsty was great.

I go and sit on her bench on the rare occasions I'm in London these days.

 

[StillStunned]

I can't help feeling he'd be relieved not to have to endure another round of "Fairytale" blaring out of every shop and pub this Xmas

Apparently it generated about 400k in royalties every year, so I'm sure it was a cross he gladly bore.

 

[nice90sguy]

Apparently it generated about 400k in royalties every year, so I'm sure it was a cross he gladly bore.

He didn't seem like somebody who gave a fuck, as long as he had booze money

 

[StillStunned]

Apparently it generated about 400k in royalties every year, so I'm sure it was a cross he gladly bore.

Dammit, now I've gone down a rabbit hole of looking for old Perishers comics. (Baby Grumpling had a teddy called Gladly, short for Gladly My Cross-Eyed Bear.)

 

[HordHolm]

I think my favourite it The Turkish Song of the Damned. But Fairytale comes very close. Guess what's going to be No. 1 this year?

Also a shout-out to Kirsty MacColl, who died tragically and far too young. If you don't know it, look up "There's A Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis".

Kirsty MacColl never had the success she deserved, at least not when she wasn't writing for someone else. "Chip Shop" is great, but it's a bit novelty - her later stuff, post-Steve Lillywhite has some real punch. England 2 Colombia 0, Us Amazonians and Celestine from Tropical Brainstorm are top bollock, as are Ms Otis Regrets, and of course, In These Shoes?

 

[AchtungNight]

It will be alright, Shane. There are no more guns in the valley.

Wait, wrong funeral. Sorry.

I’ll be going now.

 

[HordHolm]

She also covered Billy Bragg's A New England.

At the risk of derailing this into a Kirsty MacColl thread... I saw an interview with Billy Bragg after she died and he was talking about her cover of A New England. She reckoned it wasn't long enough and wanted an extra verse but he wasn't keen on getting up in the morning to go to the other side of London to work on it with her. So she promised him a fry-up and he caved in. Eggs, Bacon and Mushrooms led to this:

My dreams were full of strange ideas,
My mind was set despite my fears,
But other things got in the way,
I never asked that boy to stay,

Once upon a time at home,
I waited by the telephone,
Hoping for someone to pull me through,
When at last it didn't ring I knew it wasn't you.

Has a better lyric been exchanged for a breakfast?

 

[lovecraft68]

Dammit, now I've gone down a rabbit hole of looking for old Perishers comics. (Baby Grumpling had a teddy called Gladly, short for Gladly My Cross-Eyed Bear.)

They probably went up on E-bay within minutes of the announcement of his passing, and will go for stupid money.

 

[StillStunned]

They probably went up on E-bay within minutes of the announcement of his passing, and will go for stupid money.

Sorry, I was going off on a tangent. The Perishers had nothing to do with Shane. It was just when I was writing about "a cross he gladly bore" that I was reminded of the teddy bear.

 

[lovecraft68]

Sorry, I was going off on a tangent. The Perishers had nothing to do with Shane. It was just when I was writing about "a cross he gladly bore" that I was reminded of the teddy bear.

Oh, my bad, I'm not big on this type of music, I thought the comics were tied to him. Guess it will just be anything with his signature/memorabilia.

 

[jsmiam]

Speaking of tangents, I thought a totally different Shane….

Billy: “Shane… Come back! Mom wants you to do her!” (That last part ended up on the cutting room floor.). ;-)

 

[StillStunned]

I just remembered: one of my stories begins with the opening line from "Rainy Night in Soho".

I give you Love at First Sight, possibly quite a fitting tribute to Shane.