The singer of the British Celtic punk band, Shane MacGowan, is
"in hospital again"
, his wife announced by posting a photo of the singer in a wheelchair on Twitter.
Fans then wished him a speedy recovery, sometimes associating Shane MacGowan with the
"Christmas sound"
.
Born in England in 1957 to Irish parents, Shane MacGowan founded the band
The Pogues
in 1982 .
He then played Irish ballads in pubs, interpreted at a hundred miles an hour by musicians merrily mixing Irish rhythms and the energy of punks.
Combining Celtic legends and drunkenness,
The Pogues
became the political voice of young Irish immigrants in London in the 1980s, anti-Thatcher and anti-censorship.
Shane MacGowan had already been hospitalized in 2016 after breaking his pelvis.
His wife then revealed that the iconic toothless singer was finally sober, he whose career was marked by alcoholism.
The Pogues
' biggest commercial success
was
Fairytale of New York
, a 1987 duet between Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl that became a Christmas classic that sold like hot cakes in Ireland and the UK.
The BBC tried to redact the insulting exchanges between two old lovers in the song
"
You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap
lousy
faggot
"
You're an old slut on junk”
, (
“And you an old cameo slut”
), but had to give it up in front of the general outcry.