Very, very sad about the death of MacGowan. The music of my youth. Growing up Irish in London in the earl eighties the Pogues were a revelation to me. Profoundly different but linked to the show bands and old records my dad would listen to on a Sunday afternoon after the pubs had shut.
As the President of Ireland has said;
“His words have connected Irish people all over the globe to their culture and history, encompassing so many human emotions in the most poetic of ways.”
Very, very sad about the death of MacGowan. The music of my youth. Growing up Irish in London in the earl eighties the Pogues were a revelation to me. Profoundly different but linked to the show bands and old records my dad would listen to on a Sunday afternoon after the pubs had shut.
As the President of Ireland has said;
“His words have connected Irish people all over the globe to their culture and history, encompassing so many human emotions in the most poetic of ways.”
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam