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description: 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
language: English
title: A Drink With Shane MacGowan
titlecomplete: A Drink With Shane MacGowan
genres: Autobiography, Music, Ireland, Irish Literature, Punk, History, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1051
publisher: Pan MacMillan