For most people, MacGowan was best known for the song “Fairytale of New York” together with Kirsty MacColl. The former The Pogues vocalist has been ill for a long time and fans all over the world have taken to social media to wish him the best. MacGowan died around 03.30 on Thursday night with his wife and sister by his side. He suffered from the disease acute encephalitis. He was born in Kent in England on 25 December 1957 to Irish parents and only became a name for the whole world when he became a vocalist in the band The Pogues in the 80s. He was very proud of his Irish ancestry. His wife Victoria Mary Clarke shared the news of his death on Instagram on Thursday. Photo: Victoria Mary Clarke on Instagram Pay tribute to her husband In 1987, he and Jem Finer came out with “Fairytale of New York” together with Kirsty MacColl, a song that climbed the charts around the world every December. This despite the fact that the song has a rather sad content and is about two lazy birds and their troubled love in the run-up to Christmas. The song has become a symbol of the run-up to Christmas for many. His wife Victoria Mary Clarke told about the death on Instagram on Thursday and wrote memorial words for the man she has been married to since 2018. – Shane who will always be the light I hold in front of me and the goal of my dreams and the love ❤️ in my life, Clarke writes. Stop drinking The British cultural journalist David Sillito writes in a commentary on the BBC about MacGowan and the songs that have become everyone’s possession. – Take “Fairytale of New York”, it’s a masterpiece because it captures the part of Christmas that other Christmas songs ignore. It is a celebration of the gloomy December days with brooding over mistakes made. MacGowan struggled with substance abuse ever since he was a child. It has been claimed that his parents gave him Guinness beer to calm him down. Later it became both alcohol and drugs. In 2016, his wife told him that he had stopped drinking after a long life in the limelight with the challenges it brings. Shane MacGowan photographed by NTB in 1994. By then he had been fired from his band after many years of drug abuse. Photo: Peter Thursfield / NTB MacGowan gradually got his drug problem under control and performed at festivals together with the others in The Pogus. Here from France in 2008. Photo: FRED TANNEAU / AFP
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