Do We Ever Really Care Who Lived In Our...
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Just asking like,but i seem to get the feeling that the death of an English pop singer(McGowan) seems more worthy of respect than the death of a world statesman(Kissinger).Any views either ways folks?
Rubbish: someone actually posted on this thread earlier about his parents "leaving Ireland to find a better life in England" In fact his parents were comparatively well-to-do and were actually visiting relatives in Kent when his mum went into labour unexpectedly. He spent most of the first 13 years in Tipperary (hence the Irish accent) and his dad only moved back to Kent when he was a teenager.
But as I posted earlier: he definitely qualified to play for England :-)
English, Irish, Anglo-Irish tho what honestly does it matter?
Shane MacGowan drumming and dancing 1976
The union jack outfit was a punk fasion of the day. His UKIP campaigning days were at the point ahead of him 😁
I hadn't realised that the original "Fairytale" - tune and lyrics - were actually composed by Jem Finer. MacGowan later changed the lyrics - but the tune presumably is Finer's. And Jem Finer IS English, so there you go!
Well, someone said about him being more relevant to U.60s and I concur. I'd never heard of Shane McGowan, although I had heard of The Pogues and knew some of their music - I wasn't al that keen on it, it was OK. I didn't know all the details about Kissinger, but he was a well-known figure and always in the news, so I knew he was important and had some basic knowledge of his doings.
There honestly is nothing in common between the two other than that they died almost on the same day. Comparisons, as they say, are odious. Although you could have a fascinating debate I suppose about who did the greater good. I did like Sandy's quote about the only harm being done being that to oneself. Apt indeed for MacGowan. Probably not in fairness to HK. Shane's partner later wife was a saint. I think the wake might be riotous. ..
When he was 13 his dad got a job as an accountant at C&A in Tunbridge Wells so they moved.
Famously he got a scholarship to Westminster school but didn't last very long there. How he lasted to 65 given his lifestyle is a great mystery.
If you ask me his riotous early teen and indeed preteen years in Tipperary are probably accounted for by the fact that their village was so isolated. You tend to get away with things more away from the glare of the authorities (so they tell me)
why does it matter for the purposes of this question, which i think has been fairly adequately answered by ringlet and 5l in my opinion. Of course, the question is just a front for myffi's somewhat mystifying agenda onthis subject as betrayed by her "ha ha i'm right you're wrong" answer earlier inthe thread which seems slightly bizarre.
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