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Shane MacGowan

Born to Irish parents in Kent, England on December 25, 1957, Shane MacGowan was a singer-songwriter best known as the front man for The Pogues. Born in England while his parents were visiting from Ireland, they returned to the city of Tipperary, where he spent the first six years of his life. Moving permanently to England when he was six and a half, Shane MacGowan became interested in literature and was reading the works of authors like James Joyce and John Steinbeck by the time he was 11. Although he eventually attended Westminster School on a literature scholarship, he was alre...