Till minne av Shane MacGowan

 

 

The Irish president, Michael D Higgins, has led Ireland’s tributes to Shane MacGowan, describing the Pogues frontman as one of “music’s greatest lyricists”.

 

After the singer’s death at the age of 65, Higgins compared MacGowan’s songs with “perfectly crafted poems” that captured “the measure of our dreams”.

 

“Like so many across the world, it was with the greatest sadness that I learned this morning of the death of Shane MacGowan,” Higgins said in a statement on Thursday. “Shane will be remembered as one of music’s greatest lyricists. So many of his songs would be perfectly crafted poems, if that would not have deprived us of the opportunity to hear him sing them.