Shane MacGowan, frontman of the band Pogues, passed away from pneumonia following complications from encephalitis, according to his distraught wife. According to the Sun, MacGowan passed away early Thursday morning surrounded by his family and wife Victoria Mary Clarke. On Christmas Day, he would have been sixty-six years old.
Last week, the musician was discharged from the hospital after a stint there due to viral encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain. In an interview with the New York Times, Clarke revealed that her husband’s cause of death was pneumonia. The funeral’s specifics are still up in the air.
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Following an emotional statement from his family that read, “It is with the deepest sorrow and heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of Shane MacGowan,” the news of his death has now been confirmed. With his family and wife Victoria by his side, Shane passed away peacefully on Thursday, November 30, 2023.
In addition to his father, Maurice, his sister Siobhan, his cherished wife Victoria, and numerous friends and relatives, he was preceded in death by his mother, Therese. “Further details will be announced shortly, the family asks for privacy at this very sad time. House Private, please.”
To her spouse, whom she referred to as “the light that I hold before me and the measure of my dreams and the love of my life,” Clarke also paid tribute. “The most beautiful soul and beautiful angel and the sun and the moon and the start and end of everything that I hold dear, has gone to be with Jesus and Mary and his beautiful mother Therese.”
“I am blessed beyond words to have met him and to have loved him and to have been so endlessly and unconditionally loved by him and to have had so many years of life and love and joy and fun and laughter and so many adventures,” she continued. “There’s no way to describe the loss that I am feeling and the longing for just one more of his smiles that lit up my world.”
“Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for your presence in this world. You made it so very bright and you gave so much joy to so many people with your heart and soul and your music.” You are ever cherished by me. Carry on your raving in the garden, drenched in the rain that you adored.
“You meant the world to me.” The couple had just celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary when MacGowan passed away. They were married after being together since the 1980s and engaged for decades.
In a new tribute last night, Clarke wrote, “I am going to miss him so much! His smile, his eyes, his laugh, his sense of humor and his voice, every little part of him.” MacGowan initially was diagnosed with viral encephalitis last year and spent the past few months in the hospital’s intensive care unit recovering.
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