Shane MacGowan's death today follows years of ill health, his mother dying in a car crash and the tragic passing of fellow singer Kirsty MacColl in a speedboat accident aged 41. The legendary Pogues frontman died aged 65 after an eight-year battle with a brain condition. Earlier in his life, he had overcome alcoholism, a heroin addiction, a high-speed fall from a car and numerous drunken fights. MacGowan's life was also touched by family tragedy, with the punk icon losing his mother Therese on New Year's Day 2017 when she near her home in rural Ireland.
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