Sad to read today that ex-Pogues lead singer Shane MacGowan has died. By any measure he (and Kirsty MacColl) have to have come up with the best Christmas song ever (apparently authored as a bet!) It's certainly the only one that, when it comes on the radio, I turn up and not down. An Irish poet in the great tradition of Irish poets, but born in Kent.. ah well ,you can't have everything, although I reckon Shane probably tried! At least we all know what the Christmas #1 will be now...
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