Rising from North London pubs, the band was performing in stadiums by the late 1980s, before MacGowan’s drug and alcohol problems and his mental and physical deterioration forced the band to fire him. MacGowan emerged from London’s punk scene in the late 1970s and spent nine tumultuous years with the initial incarnation of the Pogues. MacGowan’s wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, said the cause was pneumonia but did not say where he died. Shane MacGowan, the brilliant but chaotic songwriter who as frontman for the Pogues reinvigorated interest in Irish music in the 1980s by harnessing it to the propulsive power of punk rock, died Thursday.
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