The RIP Thread

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Stroller said:
Shane was an inveterate drunk but a brilliant poet and songwriter. I have very fond memories of seeing the Pogues many times at the Mean Fiddler and other venues around London.

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We have tickets to see a Pogues tribute band at the Irish Centre in Camden on 16th December. Could be an emotional evening.
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I've just listened to this and instantly liked it. From my first listening it only has three chords ( C,E, F ) revolving but the arrangement is superb with a big sound and it draws back and pauses before it fills out again with the string arrangement. His voice complements it perfectly. Very good song. It's not often I like something upon my first listening.
 
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QPR999 said:
I've just listened to this and instantly liked it. From my first listening it only has three chords ( C,E, F ) revolving but the arrangement is superb with a big sound and it draws back and pauses before it fills out again with the string arrangement. His voice complements it perfectly. Very good song. It's not often I like something upon my first listening.
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This is a pretty good guide to some of his best stuff...

Punk, human spirit and a Christmas classic: Shane MacGowan’s 10 greatest recordings | The Pogues | The Guardian
 
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sb_73 said:
Lots of tributes to Alastair Darling, many of them stressing his ‘decency’ and the fact that he ‘knew right from wrong’.

No criticism of him implied but these are really minimum expectations to be a human being and should be taken for granted in politicians, rather than praised as exemplary.

Then a succession of other talking heads reviewed Henry Kissinger’s life and not a single one, even his biggest fans, described him as decent or implied that he had a functioning moral compass, and I shook myself out of my naive day dream.
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Good post. RIP Alastair, 70 is far too young. Bloody cancer.
 
Stroller said:
Shane was an inveterate drunk but a brilliant poet and songwriter. I have very fond memories of seeing the Pogues many times at the Mean Fiddler and other venues around London.

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We have tickets to see a Pogues tribute band at the Irish Centre in Camden on 16th December. Could be an emotional evening.
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Spent the downtime of no QPR listening to some Pogues. A line from this song resonated especially

“We watched our friends grow up together
And we saw them as they fell
Some of them fell into Heaven
Some of them fell into Hell…”
 
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sb_73 said:
Spent the downtime of no QPR listening to some Pogues. A line from this song resonated especially

“We watched our friends grow up together
And we saw them as they fell
Some of them fell into Heaven
Some of them fell into Hell…”
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So beautiful. It's my favourite MacGowan song.

A very close friend of mine, who's currently in remission from Myeloma, got married a couple of years to a partner of 40 years and they had that song playing as they entered the registry office.

'You're the measure of my dreams'
 
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qprbeth said:
Benjamin Zephaniah just announced , from a brain tumour, diagnosed 8 weeks ago!!!!

There was a wonderful poet, I saw him once and was blown away.

RIP ...Great poet
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RIP Benjamin. One of the few Brummie voices that you could listen to and enjoy (sorry Brummies :emoticon-0138-think ). Great modern poet of a time, who could write and perform so succinctly.
 
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