Shane MacGowan, lead singer of The Pogues and a laureate of booze and beauty, dies at 65
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Shane MacGowan, hard-drinking frontman of Irish punk band The
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Shane MacGowan dies: Piers Morgan, Peter 'Spider' Stacey, wife
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Shane MacGowan, lead singer of The Pogues and laureate of booze
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The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan dies at age 65
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Shane MacGowan, lead singer of The Pogues and a laureate of booze
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Shane MacGowan, lead singer of The Pogues and a laureate of booze
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Shane MacGowan, lead singer of The Pogues and a laureate of
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Shane MacGowan, lead singer of The Pogues and a laureate of booze
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Shane MacGowan, lead singer of The Pogues and a laureate of booze
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The Pogues poet frontman, Shane MacGowan dies
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Shane MacGowan, lead singer of The Pogues and a laureate of booze