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As he prepares for his 80th-birthday concert at Tradfest, the English folk singer-songwriter takes stock of his life and of five decades in music
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The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has died at the age of 65 after years of health issues, his wife Victoria Mary Clarke has confirmed.
Shane MacGowan breathed new life into the Celtic music scene in the 1980s, and together with The Pogues, created rousing, emotionally charged folk tunes about Irish life.