Shane MacGowan's Wife Speaks About His Death

Shane MacGowan’s wife, Victoria Mary Clarke , spoke about the shock she experienced when she was told her husband was going to die. Irish singer and musician Shane MacGowan, best known for being the frontman of The Pogues , died on Thursday at home, aged 65. Speaking to Brendan O’Connor on RTÉ Radio One this morning, Victoria Mary Clarke spoke of how the pair met and the shared love between to two of them.

“I look at him and became fascinated immediately,” Clarke recalled while telling the programme how the two met in London in 1982. “I was sitting in my seat in the pub, in North London – the Royal Oak, Temple Fortune – and he just walked into the bar with Spider and I noticed them because they didn’t look like anyone else.” Describing his look, Clarke said Shane didn’t go with the “new romantic” look that everyone else had taken to. Instead, Clarke said: “He was dressing like his dad.” She detailed how Shane asked her to buy Spider Stacey, Tin Whistler, and Vocalist for The Pogues, a drink as it was his birthday. “And I said ‘F**k off,

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