I remember watching some documentary (I think it was If I Should Fall From Grace With God, dir Sarah Share in 2001, not Crock of Gold) and the way I remember it, it starts off with him in I think a bar and he is totally completely wasted. Not just wasted, it's like he hasn't been sober for years. He is just absolutely maundering on and on and his dad (I think) says, "He had a brilliant brain....still has....a few bilion brain cells later," tears in his eyes, and then it's like a smash-cut to him young and fiery singing the title track live and it's a total absolute gut punch.
It's so hard to pick a favourite song but his version of Waltzing Matilda is just so heartbreaking.
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I thought he was doing a lot better recently! He even finally got new teeth! I read an interview in the Guardian that was pretty good.... This one, about a year ago https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/04/of-course-i-like-life-shane-macgowan-on-the-pogues-his-death-wish-and-his-sideline-in-erotic-art Apparently he got quite sick with encephalitis last year and was just discharged from the hospital.
I remember watching some documentary (I think it was If I Should Fall From Grace With God, dir Sarah Share in 2001, not Crock of Gold) and the way I remember it, it starts off with him in I think a bar and he is totally completely wasted. Not just wasted, it's like he hasn't been sober for years. He is just absolutely maundering on and on and his dad (I think) says, "He had a brilliant brain....still has....a few bilion brain cells later," tears in his eyes, and then it's like a smash-cut to him young and fiery singing the title track live and it's a total absolute gut punch.
It's so hard to pick a favourite song but his version of Waltzing Matilda is just so heartbreaking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKURhqmSLmM