He died years ago! We got three albums out of him and got to see his genius after that he was an addict and the drink especially ruined him like it does to any chronic alcoholic
I was 20 in 1985, from a merseyside irish family, met loads of folk like me from england, scotland, ireland etc.,all living away from home in London,, we found the pogues. Wow
You've also maintaned your Irish surname. 😊 Comes from Rua (red) as Gaeilge. Love Merseyside and the northwest generally. Home of so much great music, many of which are also from Irish backgrounds.
I get the chills "So I walked as day was dawning Where small birds sang and leaves were falling Where we once watched the row boats landing By the broad majestic Shannon "
Oh so may of us do....an absolute genius. The Pogues will live on long after we are all gone...and so will Shane McGowan's legacy...just like the Broad Majestic Shannon.
NEVER MIND : he is what HE IS. Never mind the idiots who are UNAWARE of his genuine and BIG "Art". Shane and his groupe are enormous artists. That is all. THe ones who have no brain to see it have NO right to listen to them !
Absolute Genius. I remember hearing him back in 1985. I was 18 and I fell in love with his music. He was more than a song write, a poet. How many people who listened to the Pogues became interested in traditional Irish music. A true ambassador to Irish music and culture. Listening to music got me interested in reading Yeats, Joyce and T.S. Elliot. Brilliant and will be miss.
Sounds so simple. But no-one else can do it. Buddy Holly, Bob Marley, Shane McGowan - kings of the simple song that no-one else can do and that wraps me up in tears, love, joy, amazement, and beautiful disbelief.
The last time I saw you was down at the greeks There was whiskey on sunday and tears on our cheeks You sang me a song as pure as the breeze Blowing up the road to glenaveigh I sat for a while at the cross at finnoe Where young lovers would meet when the flowers were in bloom Heard the men coming home from the fair at shinrone Their hearts in tipperary wherever they go
What a voice ! What words! making the universal out of the everyday, That’s Art, isn’t it? It's not given to everyone to know how to do that, and it affects us all thanks Shane
What a VOICE!! And the way he hangs onto the mic stand like it's keeping him alive long enough to sing the song.... Shane you had the voice of a (slightly demented/addled) angel... You better be singing when i get to heaven..."there's no more pain/no more sorrow"
GOD BLESS THE POGUES !! HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU STILL BE ALIVE SHANE I SAW YOU IN THE 80S AND YOU LOOKED FUCKED THEN IVE SEEN YOU COUNTLESS TIMES SINCE AND EVERY TIME YOU LOOK WORSE BUT THAT VOICE IS STILL THERE !! WHO ARE THE 6 FOOLS THAT DISLIKE THIS !! ONE WORD WASTERS !! KEEP ON ROCKING SHANE WE WILL MISS YOU WHEN YOUR GONE
Enjoy the 09 'US Tour you guys, love from Waterford, Ireland, a stone's throw from Shane McGowan's birthplace. We look forward to the annual Pogues Christmas Tour here every year. Slanté.
beautiful song. always think of my exgf when i hear it. me & her saw shane & co. in atlanta a few years ago. was amazing. unfortunately missed a song or two when we had a drunken row. i cursed her out & she knocked my beer on the ground.
Dunno.. but apart from the great music Shane did, a whole own class imo, his looks make him appearing kinda sympathetic. He appears to me like a pleasent person to have around. Makes it even more enjoyable to listen to those songs.
There's no pain, there's no more sorrow. They're all gone, gone with the years. ~ RIP Shane
Can't believe he's gone . 💔 I've loved Shane since I was a kid . God Bless you my friend 🙏 😊❤
He died years ago! We got three albums out of him and got to see his genius after that he was an addict and the drink especially ruined him like it does to any chronic alcoholic
I was 20 in 1985, from a merseyside irish family, met loads of folk like me from england, scotland, ireland etc.,all living away from home in London,, we found the pogues. Wow
You've also maintaned your Irish surname. 😊 Comes from Rua (red) as Gaeilge. Love Merseyside and the northwest generally. Home of so much great music, many of which are also from Irish backgrounds.
Ruane parish GleannIreland Caslebar Mayo
I was with you lad Camden town ,Mornington arms loads of beer massive craic
There's no pain, there's no more sorrow. What a songwriter. What a loss.
I get the chills
"So I walked as day was dawning
Where small birds sang and leaves were falling
Where we once watched the row boats landing
By the broad majestic Shannon "
Joyce would love his lyrics.
Oh so may of us do....an absolute genius. The Pogues will live on long after we are all gone...and so will Shane McGowan's legacy...just like the Broad Majestic Shannon.
I Am 20 Years Old.. Discovering This Song Saved My Life.. Cheers 🍻
Hope you're still enjoying it my brother xx
Shane goes back into the soil and soul of Irish music, of folk music, of every music, gpes back in and nourishes the future
no changes there .....
People don,t understand or appreciate how talented Shane is.
A great writer and a very misunderstood Genius.
NEVER MIND : he is what HE IS. Never mind the idiots who are UNAWARE of his genuine and BIG "Art". Shane and his groupe are enormous artists. That is all. THe ones who have no brain to see it have NO right to listen to them !
The mans a poet
Don't hear song like his been wrote anymore..he put his mark on his songwriting.And his lyrics nothing but a genius 🍀💚
Absolute Genius. I remember hearing him back in 1985. I was 18 and I fell in love with his music. He was more than a song write, a poet. How many people who listened to the Pogues became interested in traditional Irish music. A true ambassador to Irish music and culture. Listening to music got me interested in reading Yeats, Joyce and T.S. Elliot. Brilliant and will be miss.
Sounds so simple. But no-one else can do it.
Buddy Holly, Bob Marley, Shane McGowan - kings of the simple song that no-one else can do and that wraps me up in tears, love, joy, amazement, and beautiful disbelief.
You be sadly missed old stock 😢💚🍀from Wexford Ireland.peot songwriter singer frontman,A, genius PUNK 😎R.I.P Shane 🍀
RIP, you legend
The man with the GOLDEN VOICE.🙏🏼🎖️🏅🏆🥇🪙☘️💚🇮🇪🌈
Gone but never forgotten
The last time I saw you was down at the greeks
There was whiskey on sunday and tears on our cheeks
You sang me a song as pure as the breeze
Blowing up the road to glenaveigh
I sat for a while at the cross at finnoe
Where young lovers would meet when the flowers were in bloom
Heard the men coming home from the fair at shinrone
Their hearts in tipperary wherever they go
such a legend. what a voice.. see the joy in the crowd. Lends a comfort to millions..
Perfect song fit for people who long for their childhood memories, the place in their heart where they remain kids forever!
Or: just a good song, despite your strange analysis.
This song makes me cry, Bono could never to that with a song. The Pogues songs have real guts and
emotion. So 1,2,3,14 that Bono.
I bet Bono started wearing sunglasses because he saw Shane doing it first.
Un grande,muy escuchado en Euskal Herria(pais vasco),un referente irlandes.
I wish I'd been a fan of Irish songs back in the '80s and '90s. These guys are GREAT!!!
my absolute favourite song of a legendary band.
same here buddy
Its my favourite song of alltime. The situation he describes in the song is bound to appeat in all our lives someday
What a voice !
What words!
making the universal out of the everyday,
That’s Art, isn’t it?
It's not given to everyone to know how to do that,
and it affects us all
thanks Shane
Rip Shane, one of my fav songs
Im glad it was Spider, Phil, the fellas called The Pogues that put Shanes lyrics/poetry to music.
The Pogues with Shane- the best forever and ever and ever.
Wow I miss knowing his shambolic energy is in the world, not to mention that VOICE!! 🙏💕🙏
'Heard the men callin from the fair at shinrone, their hearts in Tipperary wherever they roam'....What a song...what a place...simply the best !!!!
What a VOICE!! And the way he hangs onto the mic stand like it's keeping him alive long enough to sing the song....
Shane you had the voice of a (slightly demented/addled) angel...
You better be singing when i get to heaven..."there's no more pain/no more sorrow"
GOD BLESS THE POGUES !! HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU STILL BE ALIVE SHANE I SAW YOU IN THE 80S AND YOU LOOKED FUCKED THEN IVE SEEN YOU COUNTLESS TIMES SINCE AND EVERY TIME YOU LOOK WORSE BUT THAT VOICE IS STILL THERE !! WHO ARE THE 6 FOOLS THAT DISLIKE THIS !! ONE WORD WASTERS !! KEEP ON ROCKING SHANE WE WILL MISS YOU WHEN YOUR GONE
Beautiful.
So simple that it will keep you up all life long saying: "What brilliance!"
Shane Macgowan performs... He's got the soul... though I'm not irish, I really love this band... May God bless The Pogues!!! Cheers!
One of my favourite songs, brilliant!
I saw him singin last saturday at liverpool irish feis. Twas fekin brilliant x
Shane, I'll always love you
Just divine 👌🏻
A true Irish Bard. Poetry at its fecking best.
Pure Quality 👌 Unique ❤ We Will Always Love You SHANE GRH ❤🎉🍀🇨🇮🙏
RIP LEGEND AND FRIEND ❤
I saw the pogues from 1985 battersea park free gig til 2014 at norfolk forest n shane at liverpool feis 2018
I love them tunes
I'm seeingthem on October 19th in LA at the Wiltern and I'm fookin happy!
How was it?
The Broad Majestic MacGowan!
Such an amazing song.
the best band ever, I'm very much looking forward for the concert in Bonn next month !
To Shane MacGowan, to Powers and to one of the Most Beautiful of Rivers: The Broad Majestic Shannon.
SHANE, I LOVE YOU!
I just rediscovered this song after so long
Were young lovers would meet when the flowers were in bloom
Yessss
Best band ever !
RIP Shane. Show ‘em REAL hell.
Beautiful lyrics. Always loved this one. Mr MacGowan at his finest.
God bless Shane for ever
My favourite song ever
RIP, Shane.
London 1985, n that, Pogues summer awakening, we all went 👍
phil is a legend, he got sooo much rhythm
Why does this song make me cry?
Marcus Ranum makes me cry too. Amazing one.
Ah it's the Irish in yer :)
Enjoy the 09 'US Tour you guys, love from Waterford, Ireland, a stone's throw from Shane McGowan's birthplace.
We look forward to the annual Pogues Christmas Tour here every year.
Slanté.
Sleep well, you beautiful rascal. Thanks for the music
If I were forced at gunpoint to choose my very favourite Pogues song - because I hate to choose - I think this would be the one. 💚
i did, and believe me i miss those times!!!
I am going for the whiskey on sunday,tears on my cheeks monday morning!!!
Shane was a genius. I agree. I do not care what most people think about anuyhimg else . I have my taste and my opinion and I love Shane. R.I.P. 🎈🎶🎈🎶🎈
beautiful song. always think of my exgf when i hear it. me & her saw shane & co. in atlanta a few years ago. was amazing. unfortunately missed a song or two when we had a drunken row. i cursed her out & she knocked my beer on the ground.
She did well. i knew a girl who simply threw the beer at some man's face. EVEN BETTER ! ha, ha !
Chills.Every time.
LOVE it when Shane sings to me.... even if he is calling me "broad"... O_O
**HEAVENLY**
This is a masterpiece .Sláinte Shane🍺🍺
❤❤❤ iconic voice
there's no pain, there's no more sorrow...
RIP SHANE. An Irish Genius up there with the very best of them.
Dunno.. but apart from the great music Shane did, a whole own class imo, his looks make him appearing kinda sympathetic. He appears to me like a pleasent person to have around. Makes it even more enjoyable to listen to those songs.
R.I.P. Shane
poet.singer.songwriter.legend
So beautiful! :o)
class
brillant, thnx for posting.
going to see them in DC in march! cant facking wait.
Fine work, Shane and gents!! Love the Pogues; wish I'd followed them in the '80s!
Get well soon 😢😢😢❤❤❤
ahh shane
bless!!!!!!
Real music
Apart from fake music?
HA!When the band started playing Shane looked behind them like ''Oh yeah that's right next song."
Classic from the bard McGowan..
Nice to see matthew mcconaughey at 2.07 as well!
I so wish I coulda gotta piecea Shane when he was young n' in his prime ;-)
Two minutes and fourty seconds ladies and gentlemen!
grandissimi!!!!!!!
shane rocks
best song ever -(and octopus garden)
Amen to that!!!
It's about hurling. It's about Ireland. It's about moving on up...
Rest in Peace Shane
❤
Rip shane🍀🍺⭐
Shane Tipperary Irelands legend 🙌 🌷😎 😢
😍😍😍😍😘💓🎶🧜♀️
a true compliment to the irish race
Irish legend
R.I.P Mr. Macgowan
Rest In Peace
Getwell❤❤❤