1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:01:09,025 --> 00:01:15,075 ♪ [trumpet playing] ♪ 4 00:01:22,299 --> 00:01:24,301 [grunting] 5 00:01:27,348 --> 00:01:29,959 - [water splashes] - [chiming] 6 00:01:30,220 --> 00:01:31,917 - [dog growls, yelps] - [thwack of ball] 7 00:01:34,703 --> 00:01:38,837 [water splashes] 8 00:01:39,011 --> 00:01:41,362 [chiming] 9 00:01:44,843 --> 00:01:49,413 [chiming] 10 00:01:49,631 --> 00:01:52,895 [leprechauns chattering] 11 00:01:56,725 --> 00:01:58,553 Shane MacGowan: 12 00:02:02,339 --> 00:02:04,646 [shrieks] 13 00:02:19,269 --> 00:02:20,575 Woman: Why would God do that? 14 00:02:20,749 --> 00:02:22,316 Shane: 15 00:02:29,714 --> 00:02:35,155 ♪ [singing "Fairytale of New York"] ♪ 16 00:02:44,512 --> 00:02:46,514 ♪ [The Pogues playing live, "Fairytale of New York"] ♪ 17 00:02:46,688 --> 00:02:50,300 ♪ The boys of the NYPD choir Were singing, "Galway Bay" ♪ 18 00:02:50,996 --> 00:02:54,913 ♪ And the bells were ringing out for Christmas day ♪ 19 00:03:06,011 --> 00:03:11,495 - ♪ "I could've been someone" ♪ - ♪ Well, so could anyone ♪ 20 00:03:11,843 --> 00:03:17,240 ♪ You took my dreams from me When I first found you ♪ 21 00:03:18,110 --> 00:03:24,204 ♪ I kept them with me, babe I put them with my own ♪ 22 00:03:25,117 --> 00:03:27,468 ♪ Can't make it all alone ♪ 23 00:03:27,642 --> 00:03:30,949 ♪ I've built my dreams Around you ♪ 24 00:03:33,125 --> 00:03:38,740 ♪ The boys of the NYPD choir Still singing, "Galway Bay" ♪ 25 00:03:39,088 --> 00:03:43,484 ♪ And the bells are ringing out For Christmas day ♪ 26 00:03:57,062 --> 00:03:59,630 Shane: 27 00:04:06,158 --> 00:04:10,598 [crowd cheering] 28 00:04:24,438 --> 00:04:25,394 [Shane cackles] 29 00:04:25,569 --> 00:04:26,744 [baby cries] 30 00:04:38,843 --> 00:04:40,018 Woman: Did you ever believe in Santa Claus? 31 00:04:40,192 --> 00:04:41,542 Shane: 32 00:05:01,866 --> 00:05:03,999 Woman: Is that how you see yourself now, as a cult figure? 33 00:05:04,173 --> 00:05:07,611 Shane: 34 00:05:15,010 --> 00:05:17,229 Woman: Once we've wrapped up filming, we'll put... 35 00:05:19,057 --> 00:05:20,145 Woman: Now? 36 00:05:20,929 --> 00:05:21,712 Woman: Okay. 37 00:05:24,236 --> 00:05:25,281 Woman: Okay, okay. 38 00:05:27,631 --> 00:05:30,025 ♪ [Irish pipes playing] ♪ 39 00:05:32,941 --> 00:05:33,855 Shane: 40 00:05:52,743 --> 00:05:54,179 [donkeys braying] 41 00:06:33,088 --> 00:06:37,484 ♪ [lively Irish folk music playing] ♪ 42 00:07:05,990 --> 00:07:09,341 [farmyard animal noises] 43 00:07:29,666 --> 00:07:30,885 Man: Get out there. 44 00:07:44,420 --> 00:07:46,683 Woman: Shane always wore a cap when he was here. 45 00:07:47,118 --> 00:07:48,816 So the cap was the first thing to go on 46 00:07:48,990 --> 00:07:50,382 because all the men wore caps. 47 00:07:51,514 --> 00:07:53,603 [cows mooing] 48 00:07:54,430 --> 00:07:56,388 Shane: 49 00:08:12,579 --> 00:08:13,536 [donkey brays] 50 00:08:59,060 --> 00:09:02,933 ♪ Oh, I am a merry ploughboy ♪ 51 00:09:03,543 --> 00:09:06,937 ♪ And I plough the fields All day ♪ 52 00:09:07,459 --> 00:09:11,551 ♪ Till a suddenly It dawned on me ♪ 53 00:09:11,855 --> 00:09:14,989 ♪ That I should run away ♪ 54 00:09:15,293 --> 00:09:16,294 [laughing] 55 00:09:23,998 --> 00:09:26,609 [geese honking] 56 00:09:57,074 --> 00:09:59,294 [cow mooing] 57 00:10:01,122 --> 00:10:05,561 ♪ ...since the day That I was born ♪ 58 00:10:05,735 --> 00:10:12,568 ♪ So I'm off to join the IRA And I'm off tomorrow morn ♪ 59 00:10:15,832 --> 00:10:17,573 Man: I'm glad to see you, first of all. 60 00:10:17,791 --> 00:10:19,096 Man: Yeah, yeah. 61 00:10:19,270 --> 00:10:21,446 Man: Yeah. Absolutely. 62 00:10:21,882 --> 00:10:22,970 You're hanging in. 63 00:10:24,188 --> 00:10:29,106 I was going to recall the first time that we met. 64 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:30,238 In London. 65 00:10:33,458 --> 00:10:36,157 Gerry Adams: We were traveling to Downing Street 66 00:10:36,461 --> 00:10:40,204 to do negotiations with Tony Blair and his people. 67 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,512 Our negotiating team needed somewhere to meet, 68 00:10:43,773 --> 00:10:46,689 and Gerry O'Boyle very kindly lent us 69 00:10:46,950 --> 00:10:49,213 a back room in Filthy McNasty's. 70 00:10:49,779 --> 00:10:51,085 You were there one morning. 71 00:10:51,259 --> 00:10:53,000 I was there with Martin McGuinness. 72 00:10:53,261 --> 00:10:56,394 But I remember telling you that we were going to see Blur. 73 00:10:56,568 --> 00:10:57,961 Shane: 74 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:00,224 And you said to me, "Tell him, 'Tiocfaidh ár lá'." 75 00:11:01,486 --> 00:11:03,401 Right? Which I did. 76 00:11:03,706 --> 00:11:05,403 Man: Tiocfaidh ár lá. 77 00:11:05,577 --> 00:11:06,970 - [Gerry laughing] - [Shane laughing] 78 00:11:07,492 --> 00:11:09,190 And he said to me, he would never look 79 00:11:09,364 --> 00:11:11,627 at The Pogues... [chuckles] the same again. 80 00:11:16,893 --> 00:11:19,461 What was the song that you wrote about the Great Hunger? 81 00:11:21,768 --> 00:11:24,074 The song tells the story of the people 82 00:11:24,248 --> 00:11:25,685 who died of starvation. 83 00:11:40,569 --> 00:11:46,749 [Ronnie Drew singing "The Dunes"] 84 00:11:52,233 --> 00:11:55,366 Shane: 85 00:12:14,298 --> 00:12:15,169 Yeah. 86 00:12:29,879 --> 00:12:34,971 ♪ [Irish folk music playing] ♪ 87 00:13:08,657 --> 00:13:12,792 [choir singing] 88 00:13:27,937 --> 00:13:31,941 [speaking Latin] 89 00:14:35,831 --> 00:14:36,919 Not so bad, Father. 90 00:14:40,618 --> 00:14:41,619 [muttering prayer] 91 00:14:46,886 --> 00:14:48,148 Right muck. 92 00:14:48,496 --> 00:14:49,889 [screams] 93 00:14:50,324 --> 00:14:53,675 Woman: Shane, for Christ's sake! Not again! Get in now! 94 00:14:54,502 --> 00:14:56,286 Shane: 95 00:15:01,857 --> 00:15:02,902 [cow mooing] 96 00:15:51,167 --> 00:15:54,083 Gerry: A lot of people died here in the Great Hunger. 97 00:15:54,301 --> 00:15:55,824 The population was halved. 98 00:15:57,173 --> 00:15:59,741 A lot of people were forced to leave. 99 00:16:00,698 --> 00:16:02,831 And a lot of people died in the coffin ships 100 00:16:03,092 --> 00:16:05,747 - traveling to America. - [ship's horn blasts] 101 00:16:05,921 --> 00:16:07,923 I try not to use the term "the famine" 102 00:16:08,097 --> 00:16:09,490 because, of course, it wasn't a famine. 103 00:16:10,230 --> 00:16:11,709 They were still exporting 104 00:16:12,145 --> 00:16:14,234 food from Ireland at the time when people were dying. 105 00:16:19,674 --> 00:16:21,067 Gerry: Absolutely. 106 00:16:21,241 --> 00:16:22,546 That's why the English came here. 107 00:16:23,156 --> 00:16:24,244 [laughs] 108 00:16:28,378 --> 00:16:29,597 Shane: 109 00:16:33,383 --> 00:16:37,692 ♪ [lively Irish folk music playing] ♪ 110 00:17:03,196 --> 00:17:05,111 So that's me with the boys... 111 00:17:19,820 --> 00:17:23,128 ♪ And it's no, nay never ♪ 112 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,959 ♪ No, nay, never No more ♪ 113 00:17:28,612 --> 00:17:32,007 ♪ Will I play the wild rover ♪ 114 00:17:47,631 --> 00:17:52,419 [crowd cheering] 115 00:18:05,258 --> 00:18:08,130 Woman: He absorbed all that wonderful, 116 00:18:08,304 --> 00:18:09,784 traditional Irish music 117 00:18:09,958 --> 00:18:13,701 and singing and dancing through his pores 118 00:18:13,875 --> 00:18:16,617 when he was at a very formative age. 119 00:18:18,358 --> 00:18:20,099 Shane: 120 00:18:44,297 --> 00:18:45,733 He was hopped out of it. 121 00:19:27,253 --> 00:19:29,080 Man: I'm gonna moisten my glass. 122 00:19:29,298 --> 00:19:30,169 How are you, you good? 123 00:19:34,129 --> 00:19:38,699 [all laughing] 124 00:19:38,873 --> 00:19:40,179 Shane: 125 00:19:51,929 --> 00:19:54,193 - [tractor engine revving] - [tires screeching] 126 00:20:29,184 --> 00:20:31,055 Man: You're all Gaelic geese of Gaelic lineage. 127 00:20:31,230 --> 00:20:33,144 Shane: 128 00:20:33,319 --> 00:20:36,409 [overlapping voices] 129 00:20:55,428 --> 00:20:57,952 Man: A pint of plain is your only man... 130 00:20:58,126 --> 00:20:59,388 Woman: Leave nothing undrunk. 131 00:20:59,562 --> 00:21:00,781 Shane: 132 00:21:10,791 --> 00:21:13,359 - [bell clangs] - [dog barks] 133 00:21:13,533 --> 00:21:15,448 Johnny Depp: Fuckin' horribly loud. Sorry about that. 134 00:21:16,666 --> 00:21:19,626 I'd like to invite any detractor, 135 00:21:20,104 --> 00:21:22,411 anyone who would dare say, 136 00:21:22,585 --> 00:21:24,892 "Shane's memory, he's got no fuckin' memory, 137 00:21:25,066 --> 00:21:26,459 fuckin' drinkin', fuckin'..." 138 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:27,982 I challenge them all. 139 00:21:28,548 --> 00:21:30,201 If you're ever back into Pirates, 140 00:21:30,376 --> 00:21:32,421 if he doesn't fuckin' destroy them. 141 00:21:39,341 --> 00:21:41,822 - [Shane laughs] - What makes you think I did? 142 00:21:48,219 --> 00:21:49,917 Man: Come on, men! No slacking! 143 00:21:51,135 --> 00:21:53,399 Keep it up, you Paddy bastards! Keep working! 144 00:21:59,056 --> 00:22:00,057 Gerry: Yeah, yeah. 145 00:22:02,799 --> 00:22:05,411 Comrade soldiers of the Irish Volunteers, 146 00:22:06,237 --> 00:22:07,891 and of the Citizen's Army, 147 00:22:08,152 --> 00:22:10,764 Ireland will be free! 148 00:22:31,785 --> 00:22:33,700 [siren blaring] 149 00:23:41,115 --> 00:23:42,029 [gunfire] 150 00:24:23,418 --> 00:24:26,073 [men cheering] 151 00:24:26,247 --> 00:24:31,687 ♪ [Irish folk music playing] ♪ 152 00:24:52,186 --> 00:24:53,404 - Man: Fire! - [gunshots] 153 00:24:55,885 --> 00:24:57,496 [laughs] 154 00:25:05,155 --> 00:25:08,289 [gunshots] 155 00:25:09,986 --> 00:25:16,689 ♪ [Irish folk music playing] ♪ 156 00:25:36,709 --> 00:25:43,106 ♪ [Irish folk music playing] ♪ 157 00:26:12,571 --> 00:26:13,920 [man yells] 158 00:26:37,378 --> 00:26:39,075 Would you bitches like to be raped 159 00:26:39,249 --> 00:26:41,600 before or after you're shot? 160 00:26:41,774 --> 00:26:44,428 Shane: 161 00:27:14,937 --> 00:27:17,157 [drum rolling] 162 00:27:43,749 --> 00:27:45,359 Siobhan MacGowan: When you're younger, the summers seem 163 00:27:45,533 --> 00:27:48,231 to go on forever. Endless, endless days, 164 00:27:48,405 --> 00:27:51,931 because in Ireland it's light till 11 o'clock in the summer. 165 00:27:53,410 --> 00:27:55,108 Everything's an adventure, 166 00:27:55,543 --> 00:27:58,111 and you'd have a kind of yearning for it, 167 00:27:58,285 --> 00:28:00,026 because, of course, when you're back in England, 168 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,376 then you've got all the things you don't like doing, 169 00:28:02,550 --> 00:28:03,682 which is school. 170 00:28:09,688 --> 00:28:12,212 Shane was always very attached to the house, 171 00:28:12,386 --> 00:28:15,084 because even when Mom and Dad would be leaving to go back, 172 00:28:15,258 --> 00:28:17,739 Shane would stay on here right to the very end 173 00:28:17,913 --> 00:28:20,829 that he had to come back for school. 174 00:28:21,612 --> 00:28:24,485 And then me and Dad would go and pick him up off the bus. 175 00:28:25,007 --> 00:28:26,400 And he was still wearing his cap, 176 00:28:26,574 --> 00:28:28,358 and I could smell the fire off him. 177 00:28:28,968 --> 00:28:31,361 And, yeah, he was sad to leave. 178 00:28:31,535 --> 00:28:33,450 Shane: [singing] ♪ Heard the men coming home From the fair at Shinrone ♪ 179 00:28:33,712 --> 00:28:36,410 ♪ Their hearts in Tipperary Wherever they go ♪ 180 00:28:36,845 --> 00:28:42,024 ♪ Take my hand And dry your tears, babe ♪ 181 00:28:42,503 --> 00:28:48,291 ♪ Take my hand Forget your fears, babe ♪ 182 00:28:48,857 --> 00:28:50,380 ♪ There's no pain ♪ 183 00:28:50,816 --> 00:28:52,121 [cow mooing] 184 00:28:52,382 --> 00:28:54,254 ♪ There's no more sorrow ♪ 185 00:28:54,994 --> 00:29:00,216 ♪ They've all gone Gone in the years, babe ♪ 186 00:29:02,436 --> 00:29:04,394 Siobhan: It had the biggest effect on him. 187 00:29:04,568 --> 00:29:06,962 It gave him a sense of real Irishness 188 00:29:07,180 --> 00:29:09,225 and of the old times of Ireland, 189 00:29:09,399 --> 00:29:11,880 because we caught the end part of that. 190 00:29:12,751 --> 00:29:16,363 And I think it is a primary influence on what he became. 191 00:29:16,624 --> 00:29:22,282 ♪ So I walked as day Was dawning ♪ 192 00:29:22,673 --> 00:29:28,244 ♪ Where small birds sang And leaves were falling ♪ 193 00:29:28,636 --> 00:29:34,555 ♪ Where we once watched The row boats landing ♪ 194 00:29:34,947 --> 00:29:40,735 ♪ By the broad Majestic Shannon ♪ 195 00:29:51,398 --> 00:29:54,880 So, how old were you when you came to London? 196 00:29:56,316 --> 00:29:57,186 Yes. 197 00:30:03,540 --> 00:30:05,455 Okay, I won't interrogate you, all right. 198 00:30:06,413 --> 00:30:07,414 Uh... 199 00:30:10,504 --> 00:30:12,462 Oh, totally get off the subject. 200 00:30:15,030 --> 00:30:16,684 What do you want to talk about, then? 201 00:30:25,084 --> 00:30:25,998 Man: How's that! 202 00:30:27,477 --> 00:30:29,001 Oh, and cheddar, if you will. 203 00:30:32,221 --> 00:30:34,049 Shane: 204 00:30:53,939 --> 00:30:55,723 [donkey brays] 205 00:30:58,465 --> 00:31:02,251 Shane: 206 00:31:30,018 --> 00:31:31,411 Siobhan: We were Irish, yeah. 207 00:31:31,585 --> 00:31:33,848 We were definitely, definitely Irish. 208 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,416 Dad would be playing all The Dubliners' records 209 00:31:36,590 --> 00:31:39,462 and all the rebel songs. We knew all the words. 210 00:31:42,813 --> 00:31:47,035 Shane: 211 00:31:47,818 --> 00:31:49,559 We're a lawless people, aren't we? 212 00:31:49,733 --> 00:31:52,258 I mean, that's what makes us free people. 213 00:31:53,824 --> 00:31:57,828 Shane: 214 00:32:03,791 --> 00:32:06,011 She was the girl with the St. Patrick's Day smile, 215 00:32:06,185 --> 00:32:08,230 with the Irish wolfhounds there. 216 00:32:10,232 --> 00:32:11,712 - She's just so beautiful. - Man: Film star. 217 00:32:11,886 --> 00:32:13,496 Siobhan: She's very like a film star. 218 00:32:13,670 --> 00:32:14,845 Therese MacGowan: [singing] ♪ In the day ♪ 219 00:32:15,020 --> 00:32:18,675 ♪ I'll be over the mountains ♪ 220 00:32:18,980 --> 00:32:22,027 Shane: 221 00:32:38,173 --> 00:32:44,353 Therese: ♪ So, goodnight And God guard you forever ♪ 222 00:32:44,701 --> 00:32:49,358 ♪ And write to me, won't you Goodbye ♪ 223 00:33:16,168 --> 00:33:17,560 Therese: It was very difficult 224 00:33:17,734 --> 00:33:20,172 to get employment in Ireland. 225 00:33:21,521 --> 00:33:22,913 [ship's horn blasts] 226 00:33:23,610 --> 00:33:26,134 Therese: Many people had to go to England to earn a living. 227 00:33:27,962 --> 00:33:30,095 Shane: 228 00:33:59,776 --> 00:34:01,648 Boy: Paddy, Paddy! 229 00:34:16,924 --> 00:34:18,099 ♪ [reggae music playing] ♪ 230 00:34:47,563 --> 00:34:48,998 [screaming] 231 00:35:00,706 --> 00:35:02,665 Siobhan: His reading came from Dad. 232 00:35:03,188 --> 00:35:06,452 He would have been reading James Joyce, Flann O'Brien 233 00:35:06,668 --> 00:35:07,757 and Graham Greene. 234 00:35:12,632 --> 00:35:13,589 Mm. 235 00:35:16,418 --> 00:35:18,855 Siobhan: This was taken at Holmwood House 236 00:35:19,029 --> 00:35:21,206 in Tunbridge Wells because he had won 237 00:35:21,380 --> 00:35:24,078 a literary prize for The Daily Mirror 238 00:35:24,382 --> 00:35:26,210 and he won the top prize in that. 239 00:35:35,568 --> 00:35:37,570 Men: Hip, hip, hooray! [clapping] 240 00:35:37,744 --> 00:35:39,920 Woman: Did you wanna be an English gentleman? 241 00:36:22,484 --> 00:36:28,098 [drilling on construction site] 242 00:36:28,273 --> 00:36:30,623 Siobhan: When we were 13, we went to London. 243 00:36:30,797 --> 00:36:33,930 We lived in the Barbican, and it was like a big concrete jungle, 244 00:36:34,104 --> 00:36:36,150 and Mom got depression. 245 00:36:37,934 --> 00:36:40,067 Maurice MacGowan: All trouble broke loose 246 00:36:40,633 --> 00:36:44,550 because Therese wasn't able to handle the built-up aspects of London, you know? 247 00:36:44,724 --> 00:36:48,075 It's on a huge scale, and the Barbican was a massive fortress. 248 00:36:50,338 --> 00:36:53,646 [mechanical banging, whirring] 249 00:36:53,820 --> 00:36:57,084 Shane: 250 00:37:15,929 --> 00:37:18,888 He was a fantastic character when he was young, you know. 251 00:37:19,541 --> 00:37:24,546 He and I were... like pals until he was 12, you know. 252 00:37:25,852 --> 00:37:29,943 And then he discovered Creedence Clearwater Revival, etc. 253 00:37:37,385 --> 00:37:39,126 He just wanted to go out with the boys. 254 00:37:39,300 --> 00:37:40,997 - Oi, cunt! - [yells] 255 00:37:41,389 --> 00:37:43,957 Sniffing glue, or whatever he was doing at the time. 256 00:37:46,046 --> 00:37:48,048 [inhaling] 257 00:37:48,222 --> 00:37:50,920 Maurice: And that's when everything broke up with me... 258 00:37:51,486 --> 00:37:54,184 [church bells tolling] 259 00:38:01,888 --> 00:38:04,020 Siobhan: He won some kind of scholarship. 260 00:38:04,369 --> 00:38:05,805 Mom was keen for him to go. 261 00:38:05,979 --> 00:38:07,763 Dad wasn't keen because he saw it 262 00:38:07,937 --> 00:38:10,984 as a kind of Great British bastion of privilege. 263 00:38:11,898 --> 00:38:14,117 Shane: 264 00:38:19,209 --> 00:38:21,473 Woman: So this would've been around the time of Bloody Sunday? 265 00:38:29,176 --> 00:38:30,133 [gunshots] 266 00:38:35,182 --> 00:38:40,013 [sirens blaring] 267 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:55,768 And what did they say? 268 00:39:05,212 --> 00:39:06,561 [laughs] 269 00:39:44,643 --> 00:39:46,253 Oh, no. For the exam? 270 00:39:53,042 --> 00:39:54,043 [laughs] 271 00:39:58,613 --> 00:40:01,660 Maurice: We were invited around to the headmaster's study. 272 00:40:02,443 --> 00:40:04,706 Fella called Ray. Right wanker. 273 00:40:05,228 --> 00:40:08,623 And he said, "Well, I'd prefer if Shane didn't come back next term." 274 00:40:08,797 --> 00:40:11,496 I said, "Fine, you know, I don't want him to come back 275 00:40:11,670 --> 00:40:14,629 to this stupid, fucking cunt of a place anyway." 276 00:40:19,591 --> 00:40:21,419 Shane: 277 00:40:38,958 --> 00:40:40,438 [laughs] 278 00:40:54,060 --> 00:40:56,236 [laughing] 279 00:41:08,378 --> 00:41:09,467 [blows whistle] 280 00:41:19,651 --> 00:41:20,652 - Woman: Sure. - Yeah. 281 00:41:43,457 --> 00:41:44,806 ♪ ["Navigator" by The Pogues playing] ♪ 282 00:41:45,285 --> 00:41:49,289 ♪ ...your shovel And the bold dynamite ♪ 283 00:41:49,942 --> 00:41:55,904 ♪ For to shift a few tons Of this earthly delight ♪ 284 00:43:03,929 --> 00:43:05,800 ♪ ["All the Young Dudes" by Mott The Hoople playing] ♪ 285 00:43:06,279 --> 00:43:08,977 ♪ All the young dudes ♪ 286 00:43:09,369 --> 00:43:12,372 ♪ Carry the news ♪ 287 00:43:13,068 --> 00:43:15,549 ♪ Boogaloo dues ♪ 288 00:43:26,429 --> 00:43:28,562 Siobhan: Shane was, through his own volition, 289 00:43:28,736 --> 00:43:30,303 just kinda going out of control. 290 00:43:35,264 --> 00:43:36,222 How much is in there? 291 00:43:36,962 --> 00:43:38,528 Siobhan: He was doing a lot of drugs, 292 00:43:38,703 --> 00:43:42,097 so that all added into the chaotic unhappiness. 293 00:43:43,229 --> 00:43:45,187 Mom and Dad were very liberal, you see. We had a lot 294 00:43:45,361 --> 00:43:49,235 of his druggy friends just crashing around our flat. 295 00:43:49,757 --> 00:43:51,280 I didn't like that, no. 296 00:43:52,717 --> 00:43:55,458 But they thought it was better that if they were gonna do it, 297 00:43:55,633 --> 00:43:57,286 that they did it in the house. 298 00:44:02,422 --> 00:44:08,907 Shane: 299 00:45:35,471 --> 00:45:37,386 [moaning] 300 00:45:52,750 --> 00:45:55,056 I was really, uh, frightened by it all. 301 00:45:55,230 --> 00:45:57,537 I just thought he was gonna die any minute. 302 00:45:57,711 --> 00:46:00,366 He was dressing up in Mom's pink jacket, 303 00:46:00,540 --> 00:46:03,456 putting makeup on, going down to Piccadilly Circus 304 00:46:03,630 --> 00:46:04,762 and not coming home. 305 00:46:25,347 --> 00:46:28,568 ♪ ["The Old Main Drag" by The Pogues playing] ♪ 306 00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:34,661 ♪ When I first came to London I was only sixteen ♪ 307 00:46:35,096 --> 00:46:40,885 ♪ With a fiver in my pocket And my ole dancing bag ♪ 308 00:46:41,450 --> 00:46:46,804 ♪ In the dark of an alley You'd work for a fiver ♪ 309 00:46:47,326 --> 00:46:53,245 ♪ For a swift one off the wrist On the old main drag ♪ 310 00:46:55,943 --> 00:46:57,249 Johnny: A quick one off the wrist 311 00:46:57,684 --> 00:46:59,033 down the old main drag. 312 00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:03,211 [chuckles] 313 00:47:04,256 --> 00:47:06,867 Shane, I was never fucking smart enough 314 00:47:07,041 --> 00:47:09,043 to even think to be a rent boy. 315 00:47:13,308 --> 00:47:14,483 Shane used to do it. 316 00:47:14,657 --> 00:47:16,442 Just... Well, fuckin'... I mean... 317 00:47:16,616 --> 00:47:17,573 I was never... 318 00:47:22,927 --> 00:47:24,015 [laughs] 319 00:47:24,885 --> 00:47:27,845 ♪ I know that I am dying ♪ 320 00:47:28,106 --> 00:47:30,456 ♪ And I wish I could beg ♪ 321 00:47:30,935 --> 00:47:35,853 ♪ For some money to take me From the old main drag ♪ 322 00:47:45,732 --> 00:47:47,125 - Victoria: Yes. - Johnny: Are we? 323 00:47:47,299 --> 00:47:48,517 [laughter] 324 00:47:50,302 --> 00:47:52,434 [all laughing] 325 00:47:58,136 --> 00:48:01,443 Shane: 326 00:49:33,187 --> 00:49:35,363 Put some of my music on! 327 00:49:35,755 --> 00:49:37,975 [plays guitar] 328 00:50:36,468 --> 00:50:37,425 [screaming] 329 00:50:46,695 --> 00:50:48,654 What was the first song you wrote? 330 00:50:50,786 --> 00:50:54,051 [singing] 331 00:51:07,107 --> 00:51:08,717 My Lai? In Vietnam? 332 00:51:17,378 --> 00:51:19,902 [screaming] 333 00:51:24,690 --> 00:51:26,213 Man: Shane, it's time to go home. 334 00:51:34,134 --> 00:51:36,397 [rock music playing] 335 00:51:47,104 --> 00:51:48,975 [man laughing maniacally] 336 00:51:51,847 --> 00:51:55,242 [singing] ♪ I am an anti-Christ ♪ 337 00:51:55,416 --> 00:51:58,724 ♪ I am an anarchist ♪ 338 00:51:59,464 --> 00:52:02,423 ♪ Don't know what I want But I know how to get it ♪ 339 00:52:02,858 --> 00:52:06,035 ♪ I want to destroy The passerby ♪ 340 00:52:06,384 --> 00:52:12,041 ♪ 'Cause I want to be ♪ 341 00:52:13,086 --> 00:52:16,742 ♪ Anarchy ♪ 342 00:52:18,091 --> 00:52:21,225 ♪ No dogs body ♪ 343 00:52:54,693 --> 00:52:56,912 Siobhan: We all came back on a Sunday night 344 00:52:57,130 --> 00:52:59,001 and Shane was sitting in there with cut-off hair 345 00:52:59,176 --> 00:53:00,873 he'd bleached completely white. 346 00:53:01,134 --> 00:53:04,529 Mom screamed, I think. But then she did say to him later, 347 00:53:04,790 --> 00:53:08,446 "You really are gonna have to become famous to justify that haircut." 348 00:53:09,142 --> 00:53:10,317 Shane: 349 00:53:56,363 --> 00:53:58,670 ♪ "Anarchy in the UK" by the Sex Pistols continues] ♪ 350 00:54:09,246 --> 00:54:11,160 [singing] ♪ He's in love With rock'n'roll, whoa ♪ 351 00:54:11,335 --> 00:54:13,250 ♪ He's in love With gettin' stoned, whoa ♪ 352 00:54:13,598 --> 00:54:15,382 ♪ He's in love With Janie Jones, whoa ♪ 353 00:54:15,687 --> 00:54:18,124 ♪ He don't like His boring job, no ♪ 354 00:55:18,924 --> 00:55:21,361 Siobhan: I think he found where he felt he belonged. 355 00:55:21,753 --> 00:55:23,102 I think he found his tribe. 356 00:55:23,929 --> 00:55:25,887 We all thought punk was very good for Shane. 357 00:55:26,497 --> 00:55:28,325 It allowed him to express 358 00:55:28,499 --> 00:55:30,675 everything in a very positive way, 359 00:55:30,849 --> 00:55:32,677 'cause it was all done through music. 360 00:55:32,981 --> 00:55:34,809 [shouting] 361 00:55:35,462 --> 00:55:37,638 Shane: 362 00:55:38,030 --> 00:55:40,598 Woman: Shane! Shane! 363 00:55:59,138 --> 00:56:00,574 Man: What's wrong with Sniffin' Glue? 364 00:56:20,333 --> 00:56:23,336 [singing] ♪ I am an anti-Christ ♪ 365 00:56:23,597 --> 00:56:26,252 ♪ I am an anarchist ♪ 366 00:56:26,905 --> 00:56:30,387 [both mumbling indistinctly] 367 00:56:32,345 --> 00:56:34,782 - [sheep bleats] - Man: Oi! Oi, you two! 368 00:56:34,956 --> 00:56:36,218 Clear off with that sheep! 369 00:56:36,393 --> 00:56:39,874 Shane: 370 00:56:41,963 --> 00:56:43,530 Siobhan: Shanne was a big face as well, 371 00:56:43,704 --> 00:56:45,880 but they still came down to Tunbridge Wells. 372 00:56:47,665 --> 00:56:50,015 Dad and me would go out with them, 373 00:56:50,407 --> 00:56:53,322 and then you'd have people staring at them, all right. 374 00:56:54,411 --> 00:56:55,847 But Dad was always very... 375 00:56:56,456 --> 00:56:57,979 "Fuck off!" you know? So... 376 00:56:58,153 --> 00:57:00,068 Mom was always proud. She always... 377 00:57:00,591 --> 00:57:02,549 went like this if anybody looked at him. 378 00:57:03,376 --> 00:57:04,812 [sheep bleats] 379 00:57:06,466 --> 00:57:07,598 He was very happy. 380 00:57:08,294 --> 00:57:11,079 He started to do his Nipple Erectors stuff then. 381 00:57:11,558 --> 00:57:13,430 Shane: [singing] ♪ Come on, Listen baby ♪ 382 00:57:13,908 --> 00:57:16,433 ♪ To something that I feel now ♪ 383 00:57:16,607 --> 00:57:18,565 ♪ Can't lose That crazy feeling ♪ 384 00:57:18,826 --> 00:57:21,438 ♪ You know you gotta Set me free now ♪ 385 00:57:21,829 --> 00:57:25,442 Shane: 386 00:57:35,321 --> 00:57:37,105 [laughter] 387 00:58:36,382 --> 00:58:37,426 Woman: How much did you make? 388 00:58:37,601 --> 00:58:38,993 Shane: 389 00:58:39,341 --> 00:58:40,908 Woman: How much did you spend on drink? 390 00:58:41,605 --> 00:58:43,215 Shane: 391 00:58:43,476 --> 00:58:45,609 Woman: How many women did you average in a week? 392 00:58:46,261 --> 00:58:47,175 Shane: 393 00:58:58,143 --> 00:58:59,579 Traditionally, you're not a good-looking fella, 394 00:58:59,753 --> 00:59:01,189 but you're something of a babe-magnet. 395 00:59:01,363 --> 00:59:02,887 - [audience laughs] - A lot of women find you 396 00:59:03,061 --> 00:59:04,932 irresistible, for whatever reason. 397 00:59:05,106 --> 00:59:06,020 Are you aware of that? 398 00:59:10,155 --> 00:59:11,460 Host: It's Shane MacGowan! 399 00:59:17,597 --> 00:59:19,686 Yes, it's handsome Shane. 400 00:59:21,514 --> 00:59:23,342 Johnny: How long have we known each other, Shane? 401 00:59:24,430 --> 00:59:25,736 Must be 30 years. 402 00:59:28,086 --> 00:59:28,913 Or more. 403 00:59:41,839 --> 00:59:43,057 [all laughing] 404 00:59:51,326 --> 00:59:53,154 Woman: When you were in Kings Cross, 405 00:59:53,328 --> 00:59:57,202 did you know that W. B. Yeats had lived round the corner? 406 00:59:59,552 --> 01:00:02,294 [laughs] You're never very nice about him. 407 01:00:03,904 --> 01:00:05,079 [laughs] You don't! 408 01:00:06,211 --> 01:00:08,256 What about "An Irish Airman..."? 409 01:00:10,563 --> 01:00:11,869 [both laugh] 410 01:00:16,047 --> 01:00:18,092 [Shane reading "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" 411 01:00:18,266 --> 01:00:19,616 by W.B. Yeats] 412 01:02:01,456 --> 01:02:04,285 [song playing] 413 01:02:32,444 --> 01:02:34,315 [Irish folk music playing] 414 01:03:05,912 --> 01:03:07,696 [singing] ♪ Says my au'l wan To your aul' wan♪ 415 01:03:07,958 --> 01:03:09,568 ♪ "Will ye go to The Waxie's dargle?" ♪ 416 01:03:09,742 --> 01:03:11,091 ♪ Says your aul' wan To my aul' wan 417 01:03:11,439 --> 01:03:13,137 ♪ "I haven't got a farthing ♪ 418 01:03:13,572 --> 01:03:16,488 ♪ I went up to Monto town To see Uncle McArdle ♪ 419 01:03:16,836 --> 01:03:19,012 ♪ But he wouldn't give me A half a crown ♪ 420 01:03:19,186 --> 01:03:20,971 ♪ For to go to Waxie's dargle" ♪ 421 01:03:21,145 --> 01:03:22,842 - ♪ What will ya have? ♪ - ♪ I'll have a pint ♪ 422 01:03:23,016 --> 01:03:24,539 ♪ I'll have a pint With you, sir ♪ 423 01:03:24,801 --> 01:03:27,064 ♪ And if one of ya Doesn't order soon ♪ 424 01:03:27,412 --> 01:03:28,805 ♪ We'll be chucked out Of the boozer ♪ 425 01:03:42,122 --> 01:03:44,951 Siobhan: Spider started to learn the tin whistle, 426 01:03:45,691 --> 01:03:47,824 and he used to play it down the phone to Mom, 427 01:03:47,998 --> 01:03:49,260 and as they'd say, "Listen, Therese..." 428 01:03:49,434 --> 01:03:51,044 [imitates tin whistle] 429 01:03:51,218 --> 01:03:53,742 And she'd be going, "Very good, Spider!" 430 01:03:54,091 --> 01:03:56,702 ♪ And if one of ya Doesn't order soon ♪ 431 01:03:56,963 --> 01:03:58,747 ♪ We'll get kicked out Of the boozer ♪ 432 01:03:59,400 --> 01:04:01,533 Shane: 433 01:04:03,578 --> 01:04:05,015 [laughter] 434 01:04:19,159 --> 01:04:21,335 ♪ [trumpet playing] ♪ 435 01:04:21,509 --> 01:04:22,989 [laughing] 436 01:04:54,107 --> 01:04:57,937 Man: A weight of flames of fire arose from the stony floor, 437 01:04:58,111 --> 01:04:59,808 and a well bubbled up, 438 01:05:00,026 --> 01:05:03,247 forming a stream which flowed towards me in the cave. 439 01:05:04,378 --> 01:05:06,337 Suddenly, one of my ankles slipped, 440 01:05:06,728 --> 01:05:09,862 causing my face to strike destructively against the ground. 441 01:05:10,341 --> 01:05:14,911 It appears that I tasted the burning water, which flowed from the fire. 442 01:05:15,563 --> 01:05:16,956 What do you say it was? 443 01:05:18,001 --> 01:05:19,002 Whiskey. 444 01:05:20,655 --> 01:05:22,831 Would you tell me, Shane MacGowan, 445 01:05:23,049 --> 01:05:25,312 are you here for the streams of whiskey, 446 01:05:25,617 --> 01:05:27,749 or for the crock of gold? 447 01:05:30,143 --> 01:05:32,363 [coins jingling] 448 01:05:45,202 --> 01:05:47,073 [man singing] 449 01:05:50,598 --> 01:05:52,687 Shane: 450 01:06:01,609 --> 01:06:03,350 [singing] 451 01:06:11,010 --> 01:06:15,058 How did that interplay between punk and Irish world, all that, you know? 452 01:06:20,324 --> 01:06:21,238 Mm. 453 01:06:22,804 --> 01:06:26,939 Don't you know the word 'punk' comes from the Irish word 'poncánach'? 454 01:06:28,897 --> 01:06:32,989 And the word 'poncánach'was a word used to describe Yanks. 455 01:06:38,429 --> 01:06:40,692 The word 'galore'... 456 01:06:41,867 --> 01:06:43,564 ...comes from the Irish. 457 01:06:46,089 --> 01:06:47,046 Yeah. 458 01:06:47,220 --> 01:06:49,179 [Irish folk music playing] 459 01:07:01,539 --> 01:07:03,410 ♪ [singing "Streams of Whiskey"] ♪ 460 01:08:12,958 --> 01:08:15,787 I was asked one time, had success inspired me? 461 01:08:15,961 --> 01:08:17,745 I said, "No, I was always like this." 462 01:08:18,137 --> 01:08:19,660 Shane: 463 01:08:28,452 --> 01:08:30,410 I don't enjoy being interviewed. 464 01:08:30,976 --> 01:08:32,499 Man: Did your parents know Brendan Behan? 465 01:08:36,982 --> 01:08:38,592 Siobhan: He was obsessed with Behan. 466 01:08:38,940 --> 01:08:42,247 He did idolize these people, so you tend to wanna be like 467 01:08:42,509 --> 01:08:44,207 people that you idolize. 468 01:08:45,729 --> 01:08:46,687 Shane: 469 01:09:53,232 --> 01:09:55,321 [James Joyce singing] 470 01:10:02,675 --> 01:10:04,678 Woman: Come here till I stiffen it for you. 471 01:10:04,852 --> 01:10:06,027 ♪ ["Golden Hair" by Syd Barrett playing] ♪ 472 01:10:06,289 --> 01:10:08,943 ♪ Lean out your window ♪ 473 01:10:10,075 --> 01:10:13,600 ♪ Golden hair ♪ 474 01:10:28,702 --> 01:10:30,617 ♪ ["Boys From the County Hell" by The Pogues playing] ♪ 475 01:11:01,779 --> 01:11:03,563 [song continues] 476 01:11:16,532 --> 01:11:18,404 Man: You do tend to gig drunk. 477 01:11:18,883 --> 01:11:21,711 Do you think you could get the same thing gigging sober? 478 01:11:43,516 --> 01:11:44,822 [Irish folk music playing] 479 01:11:44,996 --> 01:11:46,911 [clamoring] 480 01:11:55,746 --> 01:11:58,443 ♪ [singing "Dark Streets of London"] ♪ 481 01:12:28,735 --> 01:12:29,693 [cheering] 482 01:12:37,048 --> 01:12:39,180 [song continues] 483 01:12:40,486 --> 01:12:42,749 Reporter: For London-Irish people, Shane MacGowan was 484 01:12:42,923 --> 01:12:46,231 the first voice, the first person, that arose from within them 485 01:12:46,405 --> 01:12:49,669 to give defiant and poetic expression to a community 486 01:12:49,843 --> 01:12:51,976 that'd never really felt able to proclaim itself. 487 01:12:52,716 --> 01:12:56,241 ♪ ["The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" by The Pogues playing] ♪ 488 01:13:01,159 --> 01:13:02,726 - [horn blasts] - [song continues] 489 01:13:04,423 --> 01:13:09,514 ♪ As we sailed away From the quay ♪ 490 01:13:10,516 --> 01:13:16,566 ♪ And amidst all the tears And shouts and the cheers ♪ 491 01:13:17,654 --> 01:13:21,397 ♪ We sailed off for Gallipoli ♪ 492 01:13:27,228 --> 01:13:29,840 Shane: 493 01:13:33,059 --> 01:13:34,322 [cheering] 494 01:13:34,496 --> 01:13:36,368 [song continues] 495 01:14:05,876 --> 01:14:07,094 [song continues] 496 01:14:17,191 --> 01:14:18,932 Man: The Pogues could never have happened in Ireland. 497 01:14:22,501 --> 01:14:24,851 The Pogues needed to happen from the diaspora. 498 01:14:25,112 --> 01:14:27,767 ♪ ["Sarah MacLennane" by The Pogues playing] ♪ 499 01:14:46,090 --> 01:14:46,916 [man grunts] 500 01:15:05,718 --> 01:15:06,632 [yelling] 501 01:15:31,483 --> 01:15:33,572 [chuckles] It's all yours, Shane! 502 01:15:34,225 --> 01:15:37,097 Shane: 503 01:15:44,278 --> 01:15:46,019 [music playing] 504 01:15:55,072 --> 01:15:57,465 Man: Oi! There's no filming on the London Underground! 505 01:15:57,639 --> 01:15:59,946 [singing] ♪ McCormack And Richard Tauber ♪ 506 01:16:00,251 --> 01:16:02,253 ♪ Are singing by the bed ♪ 507 01:16:03,036 --> 01:16:05,996 ♪ There's a glass of punch Below your feet ♪ 508 01:16:06,387 --> 01:16:08,389 ♪ And an angel at your head ♪ 509 01:16:09,129 --> 01:16:11,784 ♪ There's devils on Each side of you ♪ 510 01:16:12,045 --> 01:16:14,787 ♪ With bottles in their hands ♪ 511 01:16:14,960 --> 01:16:17,268 ♪ You need one more drop Of poison ♪ 512 01:16:17,442 --> 01:16:21,141 ♪ And you'll dream Of foreign lands ♪ 513 01:16:58,526 --> 01:17:00,267 [song continues] 514 01:17:04,532 --> 01:17:05,925 [church bell tolling] 515 01:17:08,666 --> 01:17:11,583 ♪ You remember That foul evening ♪ 516 01:17:12,323 --> 01:17:14,934 ♪ When you heard The banshees howl ♪ 517 01:17:15,456 --> 01:17:20,766 ♪ There was lazy Drunken bastards singing "Billy in the Bowl" ♪ 518 01:17:21,201 --> 01:17:23,900 ♪ They took you up To midnight mass ♪ 519 01:17:24,161 --> 01:17:25,858 ♪ And left you in the lurch ♪ 520 01:17:26,337 --> 01:17:29,121 ♪ So you dropped a button In the plate ♪ 521 01:17:29,383 --> 01:17:32,038 ♪ And spewed up in the church ♪ 522 01:17:57,760 --> 01:18:00,545 Listen, are yous a céiliband, Shane MacGowan, 523 01:18:00,719 --> 01:18:02,068 or are yous a ballad group, 524 01:18:02,242 --> 01:18:04,636 or are yous a punk rock outfit, or what are ye? 525 01:18:07,117 --> 01:18:10,337 Is it true, or is it just another newspaper article, 526 01:18:10,511 --> 01:18:13,384 that your original name was Pogue Mahone, 527 01:18:13,601 --> 01:18:15,386 and that when you got on the BBC 528 01:18:15,559 --> 01:18:17,040 and they realized what that meant, 529 01:18:17,214 --> 01:18:19,651 you had to, um... you had to change your name? 530 01:18:29,139 --> 01:18:30,357 [laughter] 531 01:18:30,835 --> 01:18:32,708 On our first record, we scratched "Pogue Mahone" 532 01:18:32,969 --> 01:18:34,840 - on the inner groove. - [laughter] 533 01:18:35,493 --> 01:18:38,670 Host: What about the complaints and the criticisms of you, 534 01:18:38,844 --> 01:18:41,193 that you're sort of bringing Irish music into disrepute 535 01:18:41,368 --> 01:18:44,197 and you're playing up the Paddy and the drunken Paddy images? 536 01:18:50,508 --> 01:18:51,727 Host: Did you? 537 01:19:04,043 --> 01:19:05,523 ♪ ["Rock 'N' Roll Paddy" by Shane MacGowan playing] ♪ 538 01:19:05,784 --> 01:19:07,307 ♪ ...I'm a rock'n'roll paddy ♪ 539 01:19:07,699 --> 01:19:09,745 ♪ Whack for me daddy I'm a rock'n'roll queen ♪ 540 01:19:13,661 --> 01:19:15,054 Little old woman says to this Irish fella, 541 01:19:15,228 --> 01:19:16,795 "Can you see me across the road?" 542 01:19:17,056 --> 01:19:18,231 He says, "Hang on there, I'll go and have a look." 543 01:19:18,710 --> 01:19:20,016 Irish fella went for a job... 544 01:19:20,190 --> 01:19:21,407 Shane: 545 01:19:24,368 --> 01:19:26,282 [song continues] 546 01:19:29,939 --> 01:19:32,463 I'm a leprechaun from Ireland. 547 01:19:33,290 --> 01:19:38,948 Pogues... Alcoholic, or drunken, Irishmen. Huh? 548 01:19:42,125 --> 01:19:43,822 Shane: 549 01:20:14,679 --> 01:20:18,683 [singing] ♪ One summer evening Drunk to hell ♪ 550 01:20:19,075 --> 01:20:22,382 ♪ I stood there Nearly lifeless ♪ 551 01:20:23,557 --> 01:20:27,387 ♪ An old man In the corner sang ♪ 552 01:20:27,910 --> 01:20:31,391 ♪ Where the water lilies grow ♪ 553 01:20:32,130 --> 01:20:36,657 ♪ And on the jukebox Johnny sang ♪ 554 01:20:36,919 --> 01:20:39,965 ♪ About a thing called love ♪ 555 01:20:41,097 --> 01:20:45,318 ♪ And its how are you kid And what's your name ♪ 556 01:20:46,189 --> 01:20:49,105 ♪ And how would you Bloody know? ♪ 557 01:20:49,844 --> 01:20:54,893 ♪ And the only thing That I could see ♪ 558 01:20:55,067 --> 01:20:59,419 ♪ Was a pair of brown eyes That was looking at me ♪ 559 01:20:59,680 --> 01:21:04,120 ♪ But when we got back Labeled parts one to three ♪ 560 01:21:04,555 --> 01:21:08,733 ♪ There was no pair Of brown eyes waiting for me ♪ 561 01:21:09,081 --> 01:21:13,389 ♪ And a rovin, a rovin A rovin I'll go ♪ 562 01:21:13,781 --> 01:21:17,742 ♪ For a pair of brown eyes ♪ 563 01:21:50,731 --> 01:21:52,603 [song continues] 564 01:22:41,434 --> 01:22:42,522 [sighs] 565 01:22:43,306 --> 01:22:45,699 ♪ ["London Girl" by The Pogues playing] ♪ 566 01:23:15,555 --> 01:23:17,905 Siobhan: I remember the first time that I ever heard 567 01:23:18,123 --> 01:23:20,907 - people calling out his name. -Man: Shane! 568 01:23:21,300 --> 01:23:22,475 Shane! 569 01:23:22,910 --> 01:23:24,564 They were supporting Elvis Costello, 570 01:23:24,737 --> 01:23:26,784 and I heard, "Shane! Shane! Shane!" 571 01:23:26,958 --> 01:23:30,135 - Shane! - I went, "Oh, my God!" 572 01:23:30,657 --> 01:23:33,094 [song continues] 573 01:23:34,574 --> 01:23:36,880 Shane: 574 01:24:49,562 --> 01:24:52,696 ♪ ["A Rainy Night in Soho" by The Pogues playing] ♪ 575 01:24:58,093 --> 01:25:00,965 [singing] ♪ I've been loving you A long time ♪ 576 01:25:01,226 --> 01:25:03,489 [audience cheers] 577 01:25:04,228 --> 01:25:07,928 ♪ Down all the years Down all the days ♪ 578 01:25:08,190 --> 01:25:10,452 [clamoring] 579 01:25:11,280 --> 01:25:15,849 ♪ And I've cried For all your troubles ♪ 580 01:25:18,504 --> 01:25:22,421 ♪ Smiled at Your funny little ways ♪ 581 01:25:43,660 --> 01:25:44,661 No. 582 01:25:57,326 --> 01:25:59,023 So what happened? Did Costello change it? 583 01:26:00,894 --> 01:26:02,026 Oh, right, okay. 584 01:26:02,374 --> 01:26:03,549 [laughs] 585 01:26:08,859 --> 01:26:10,034 [laughs] 586 01:26:10,208 --> 01:26:12,558 [song continues] 587 01:26:42,327 --> 01:26:44,808 When I heard that song, I went, Oh... 588 01:26:45,852 --> 01:26:49,639 That's just beautiful, like... But it didn't surprise me. 589 01:26:58,430 --> 01:27:01,520 I loved them. Loved all the songs, yeah. Yes. 590 01:27:02,347 --> 01:27:04,697 I think he's a great poet, really, 591 01:27:04,871 --> 01:27:06,743 who can put music to it, 592 01:27:07,134 --> 01:27:08,397 which is a great gift. 593 01:27:11,094 --> 01:27:13,445 Shane MacGowan, you know, the visionary, 594 01:27:13,619 --> 01:27:15,882 the poet of the band. I think he's, like, 595 01:27:16,056 --> 01:27:18,276 one of the finest writers of the century. 596 01:27:20,583 --> 01:27:22,585 Shane: 597 01:27:32,594 --> 01:27:33,900 You're on the cover, right? 598 01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:48,045 [laughs] 599 01:28:00,666 --> 01:28:01,710 Congratulations. 600 01:28:03,278 --> 01:28:04,931 - [spits, laughs] - [audience laughs] 601 01:28:07,934 --> 01:28:10,067 Man: Shane, do you get a lot of these things? 602 01:28:13,897 --> 01:28:15,507 But what are you gonna do with these things? 603 01:28:16,813 --> 01:28:18,597 Sell, okay, how much you wanna sell? 604 01:28:20,556 --> 01:28:21,687 Man: I'll have it! 605 01:28:24,081 --> 01:28:25,603 Shane: 606 01:28:29,304 --> 01:28:31,523 ♪ ["Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues playing] ♪ 607 01:28:51,369 --> 01:28:53,371 [song continues] 608 01:29:11,781 --> 01:29:14,349 [song continues] 609 01:29:17,221 --> 01:29:19,092 Officer: You're gonna have to sleep this one out, boy. 610 01:29:32,410 --> 01:29:34,934 [song continues] 611 01:29:57,782 --> 01:30:00,046 [song continues] 612 01:31:10,160 --> 01:31:11,509 [crowd cheering] 613 01:31:12,249 --> 01:31:13,511 Gerry: You know that lovely line, 614 01:31:13,684 --> 01:31:15,339 "I could have been someone..." 615 01:31:15,818 --> 01:31:17,123 - [Shane snorts] - And then she says, 616 01:31:17,297 --> 01:31:18,559 "Well, so could anyone." 617 01:31:18,734 --> 01:31:19,822 - [laughs] - You know? 618 01:31:20,475 --> 01:31:21,998 That's... that's what it's about. 619 01:31:23,216 --> 01:31:24,087 Shane: Mm. 620 01:31:27,612 --> 01:31:29,745 - Mm. - [both laugh] 621 01:31:30,005 --> 01:31:31,921 [song continues] 622 01:32:12,744 --> 01:32:14,702 [song ends] 623 01:32:15,355 --> 01:32:16,879 [crowd cheers] 624 01:32:32,198 --> 01:32:34,200 [clock ticking] 625 01:32:36,246 --> 01:32:37,508 [explosion] 626 01:32:39,945 --> 01:32:41,294 [explosion] 627 01:32:42,600 --> 01:32:45,168 Siobhan: In the 80's there was a big IRA bombing campaign. 628 01:32:45,342 --> 01:32:46,517 [siren blaring] 629 01:32:47,126 --> 01:32:50,477 London and England were very anti-Irish. 630 01:32:52,218 --> 01:32:53,742 It was unjust, 631 01:32:55,047 --> 01:32:57,528 because they didn't realize all the injustice 632 01:32:57,702 --> 01:32:59,269 that was happening over here. 633 01:33:01,139 --> 01:33:03,186 So obviously that stiffened your hackles 634 01:33:03,360 --> 01:33:05,797 and made you, kind of, fight back. 635 01:33:05,971 --> 01:33:09,671 ♪ ["Streets of Sorrow/ Birmingham Six" by The Pogues playing] ♪ 636 01:33:19,898 --> 01:33:22,858 Shane: 637 01:33:28,385 --> 01:33:30,996 The last thing they wanted was people like MacGowan 638 01:33:31,170 --> 01:33:33,695 educating the public about the Birmingham Six. 639 01:33:35,871 --> 01:33:37,219 Paddy: I couldn't thank him enough, like. 640 01:33:40,136 --> 01:33:41,485 Presenter: Under the government's directive, 641 01:33:41,702 --> 01:33:43,443 we can't broadcast parts of it. 642 01:33:44,227 --> 01:33:46,359 Man: Shane, why did you write this particular song? 643 01:33:50,537 --> 01:33:51,582 [cheering] 644 01:33:59,329 --> 01:34:00,809 [cheering] 645 01:34:00,983 --> 01:34:04,464 Writing rebel songs like you did, 646 01:34:05,030 --> 01:34:06,902 there was a lot of physical violence. 647 01:34:07,076 --> 01:34:09,077 I mean, I remember us getting beaten up. 648 01:34:15,214 --> 01:34:16,302 But you didn't mind? 649 01:34:19,088 --> 01:34:21,916 Gerry: But obviously you enjoyed your time in London as well, 650 01:34:22,134 --> 01:34:25,398 because there's lots of things in British or English culture 651 01:34:25,964 --> 01:34:27,096 that are very good. 652 01:34:27,270 --> 01:34:28,619 You know, I mean, 653 01:34:29,011 --> 01:34:30,577 there's tons of things. Like, you know, we wouldn't be 654 01:34:30,752 --> 01:34:32,710 anti-British, we're just... We just want... [laughs] 655 01:34:32,971 --> 01:34:34,277 them to leave us in peace. 656 01:34:37,367 --> 01:34:39,804 [horse hooves clopping] 657 01:34:51,598 --> 01:34:55,080 Siobhan: The thing that really, really changed him 658 01:34:55,254 --> 01:34:59,128 was the 1988 tour, after "Fairytale," 659 01:34:59,302 --> 01:35:00,912 when they got that kind of success, 660 01:35:01,085 --> 01:35:02,740 and then they went on a world tour. 661 01:35:02,914 --> 01:35:05,438 I think they had three weeks off the whole year. 662 01:35:13,751 --> 01:35:15,361 - [crowd cheering] - [song begins] 663 01:35:15,535 --> 01:35:17,450 ♪ ["If I Should Fall From Grace With God" playing] ♪ 664 01:35:20,671 --> 01:35:22,760 [singing] ♪ If I should fall From grace with God ♪ 665 01:35:23,195 --> 01:35:24,675 ♪ Where no doctor Can relieve me ♪ 666 01:35:24,980 --> 01:35:26,633 ♪ If I'm buried 'neath the sod ♪ 667 01:35:26,808 --> 01:35:28,984 ♪ But the angels Wont' receive me ♪ 668 01:35:29,245 --> 01:35:32,727 ♪ Let me go, boys Let me go, boys ♪ 669 01:35:33,031 --> 01:35:36,861 ♪ Let me go down in the mud Where the rivers all run dry ♪ 670 01:35:38,602 --> 01:35:40,255 Shane: 671 01:35:46,088 --> 01:35:47,393 Just too much. 672 01:35:58,927 --> 01:36:00,885 I guess no matter what state you're in, 673 01:36:01,668 --> 01:36:02,800 they'll get you on the stage. 674 01:36:06,585 --> 01:36:09,327 Shane: 675 01:36:15,465 --> 01:36:17,728 [song continues] 676 01:36:17,902 --> 01:36:19,556 ♪ Let them go, boys ♪ 677 01:36:19,817 --> 01:36:22,994 ♪ Let them go down in the mud Where the rivers all run dry ♪ 678 01:36:25,823 --> 01:36:27,216 Yeah! 679 01:36:59,814 --> 01:37:02,032 [song continues] 680 01:37:05,558 --> 01:37:08,474 Siobhan: He told me he wanted to leave The Pogues in 1988. 681 01:37:09,040 --> 01:37:12,043 And I went, "Really?" You know, 'cause I wasn't sure, and then 682 01:37:12,348 --> 01:37:15,525 he said, "Yeah," he said, "But I feel I can't, because 683 01:37:16,178 --> 01:37:18,920 I feel responsible." And he said, "They're like my family." 684 01:37:21,009 --> 01:37:22,837 They needed him, and he knew that. 685 01:37:24,099 --> 01:37:25,883 Shane: 686 01:37:30,540 --> 01:37:32,672 Siobhan: Frank Murray said to me, "What's wrong with Shane?" 687 01:37:32,847 --> 01:37:34,892 And I said, "Look, Frank, I think he actually... 688 01:37:35,893 --> 01:37:38,026 he feels the need to leave, he wants to go." 689 01:37:38,200 --> 01:37:42,160 And Frank went nuts, you know. Started calling me every kind of a, like... 690 01:37:42,594 --> 01:37:44,554 "You're mad," "you're crazy." 691 01:37:44,771 --> 01:37:48,253 But I didn't actually understand what a threat that was. 692 01:37:49,298 --> 01:37:51,517 [singing] ♪ I met my love ♪ 693 01:37:53,215 --> 01:37:55,434 ♪ By the gas works wall ♪ 694 01:37:57,654 --> 01:38:03,355 ♪ Dreamed a dream By the old canal ♪ 695 01:38:05,357 --> 01:38:11,624 ♪ I kissed my girl By the factory wall ♪ 696 01:38:13,713 --> 01:38:20,023 ♪ Dirty old town Dirty old town ♪ 697 01:38:24,681 --> 01:38:26,726 Shane: 698 01:38:37,650 --> 01:38:39,478 [song continues] 699 01:39:26,786 --> 01:39:28,527 [laughter] 700 01:39:28,701 --> 01:39:30,529 [men chanting] 701 01:39:32,096 --> 01:39:33,750 [brakes hiss] 702 01:39:41,018 --> 01:39:43,107 [chanting] 703 01:40:02,518 --> 01:40:04,128 [Johnny laughs] 704 01:40:13,398 --> 01:40:14,746 [laughter] 705 01:40:38,206 --> 01:40:39,816 [snoring] 706 01:40:40,034 --> 01:40:41,296 [knocking] 707 01:41:00,010 --> 01:41:01,403 [Shane laughs] 708 01:41:03,057 --> 01:41:05,276 Siobhan: He came back from that tour changed. 709 01:41:05,668 --> 01:41:08,062 He went away and he didn't come back. 710 01:41:09,324 --> 01:41:11,934 Yeah. He just didn't come back. 711 01:41:12,327 --> 01:41:14,503 Not the Shane that I ever knew before. 712 01:41:19,638 --> 01:41:21,901 Maurice: After he went really over the top... 713 01:41:22,424 --> 01:41:26,602 When he got the big time, yeah. With the "Fairytale." 714 01:41:27,951 --> 01:41:29,909 He'd blew his brain away or something. 715 01:41:30,084 --> 01:41:31,563 I don't know what happened to him. 716 01:41:33,782 --> 01:41:36,133 Siobhan: He was just out of control, like, you know. 717 01:41:36,351 --> 01:41:39,309 And then doctors told me that he had six months to live. 718 01:41:45,055 --> 01:41:47,057 This was, like, totally out of control. 719 01:41:47,275 --> 01:41:48,318 You're dead, Shane! 720 01:41:50,278 --> 01:41:52,889 He was out on the street, like, black, painted black, 721 01:41:53,063 --> 01:41:55,761 with kind of psychic signs on him, and... 722 01:41:56,371 --> 01:41:59,678 you know, mandalas and kind of just boggly eyes. 723 01:42:02,550 --> 01:42:04,074 [siren wails] 724 01:42:04,248 --> 01:42:06,728 So, I had him committed to St. John of God's 725 01:42:06,946 --> 01:42:08,339 and that was very difficult. 726 01:42:10,254 --> 01:42:13,736 Very... Just awful, and, um, 727 01:42:14,171 --> 01:42:16,304 as he was going in the ambulance he said to me... 728 01:42:17,043 --> 01:42:19,045 [chuckles] ...he said, 729 01:42:19,219 --> 01:42:22,527 "I knew you were stupid, I just never knew you were this stupid." 730 01:42:22,701 --> 01:42:23,920 [laughs] 731 01:42:24,094 --> 01:42:25,269 Which is typical Shane. 732 01:42:26,183 --> 01:42:28,228 Shane: 733 01:42:31,580 --> 01:42:33,973 ♪ ["Fiesta" by The Pogues playing] ♪ 734 01:43:20,759 --> 01:43:21,585 You tell him. 735 01:43:26,591 --> 01:43:28,550 It don't matter. They're strangers. 736 01:43:28,724 --> 01:43:29,550 [song ends] 737 01:43:32,597 --> 01:43:34,860 ♪ [trumpet playing] ♪ 738 01:44:03,585 --> 01:44:05,108 [drilling] 739 01:44:28,827 --> 01:44:29,959 Man: You're telling me. 740 01:44:31,700 --> 01:44:33,353 They're fuckers! To hell with them. 741 01:45:26,014 --> 01:45:28,365 ♪ ["Summer in Siam" by The Pogues playing ♪ 742 01:45:29,714 --> 01:45:32,195 [singing] ♪ When it's Summer in Siam ♪ 743 01:45:32,891 --> 01:45:36,025 ♪ And the moon is full Of rainbows ♪ 744 01:45:38,723 --> 01:45:41,509 ♪ When it's Summer in Siam ♪ 745 01:45:41,900 --> 01:45:44,947 ♪ And we go through Many changes ♪ 746 01:45:47,645 --> 01:45:50,039 ♪ When it's Summer in Siam ♪ 747 01:45:50,605 --> 01:45:54,565 ♪ Then all I really know Is that I truly am ♪ 748 01:45:56,654 --> 01:45:58,960 ♪ In the summer in Siam ♪ 749 01:46:00,963 --> 01:46:03,400 ♪ In the summer in Siam ♪ 750 01:46:05,315 --> 01:46:07,796 ♪ In the summer in Siam ♪ 751 01:46:15,585 --> 01:46:16,413 Let's kill him! 752 01:46:38,782 --> 01:46:39,741 [screams] 753 01:46:52,493 --> 01:46:53,929 [groans] 754 01:48:13,487 --> 01:48:16,054 ♪ [singing "The Snake With Eyes of Garnet" by Shane MacGowan and The Popes] ♪ 755 01:48:35,073 --> 01:48:36,684 [song continues] 756 01:49:08,933 --> 01:49:11,501 You are a great songwriter. Would you agree with that? 757 01:49:11,675 --> 01:49:13,590 More than all this other nonsense that's always written about you. 758 01:49:18,813 --> 01:49:19,901 Are you drunk now? 759 01:49:21,076 --> 01:49:22,077 Well, yeah, I mean... 760 01:49:23,905 --> 01:49:25,036 - You've had a couple. - Like. 761 01:49:25,254 --> 01:49:26,210 Are you uncontrollable? 762 01:49:29,693 --> 01:49:30,737 Yeah. 763 01:49:32,957 --> 01:49:34,785 Some of the poetry you've written, and the lyrics you write 764 01:49:35,003 --> 01:49:36,874 are way beyond the charts or whatever. 765 01:49:37,048 --> 01:49:38,746 How can you do it when you appear to be 766 01:49:38,920 --> 01:49:40,182 on the edge of falling over all the time? 767 01:49:40,356 --> 01:49:41,662 How is it done? Where do you do it? 768 01:49:44,839 --> 01:49:46,623 Host: And thank God for it, I'm saying. 769 01:49:46,797 --> 01:49:48,451 Would you have been better if you'd had not been born? 770 01:49:48,625 --> 01:49:50,584 And I... You know me, I ain't sucking up to ya. 771 01:49:53,237 --> 01:49:54,196 [laughter] 772 01:49:57,155 --> 01:49:59,897 People always say, "Oh, right, Shane MacGowan's got about two weeks." 773 01:50:00,071 --> 01:50:01,420 You must be aware when people say that? 774 01:50:07,252 --> 01:50:08,818 Is the thing that pisses you off most 775 01:50:08,993 --> 01:50:10,255 people talking about you drinking? 776 01:50:13,607 --> 01:50:15,304 Well, I won't pursue it. 'Cause instead, 777 01:50:15,478 --> 01:50:17,306 I don't want talk about drink, I wanna talk about acid. 778 01:50:17,523 --> 01:50:18,829 [laughter] 779 01:50:19,047 --> 01:50:21,440 Did you really eat a Beach Boys album? 780 01:50:22,093 --> 01:50:23,617 [laughter] 781 01:50:33,017 --> 01:50:35,150 - [laughter] - Host: That does make sense, actually. 782 01:50:36,107 --> 01:50:37,326 - [applause] - Shane MacGowan, everyone! 783 01:50:38,414 --> 01:50:42,331 Shane: 784 01:50:54,559 --> 01:50:56,300 Siobhan: I certainly don't think he has a death wish. 785 01:50:56,475 --> 01:50:57,737 I think it's the opposite. 786 01:50:58,347 --> 01:51:00,784 He's probably one of the people 787 01:51:01,045 --> 01:51:04,570 that probably doesn't accept death at all, I don't think. 788 01:51:07,008 --> 01:51:09,401 Therese: He has a genuine desire to be alive, 789 01:51:09,575 --> 01:51:11,360 and to be in a human body. 790 01:51:11,534 --> 01:51:14,232 It doesn't appear that way, because doctors tell him 791 01:51:14,406 --> 01:51:16,670 that he's got to stop drinking and he doesn't stop drinking, 792 01:51:16,844 --> 01:51:19,150 so people think that he must have a death wish. 793 01:51:19,324 --> 01:51:21,065 But in actual fact, that's not the case. 794 01:51:21,239 --> 01:51:23,719 He just doesn't enjoy life without a drink. 795 01:51:24,808 --> 01:51:26,288 Shane: 796 01:51:49,005 --> 01:51:51,313 ♪ ["Rake at the Gates of Hell" by The Pogues playing] ♪ 797 01:52:29,090 --> 01:52:30,918 [song continues] 798 01:52:49,414 --> 01:52:50,285 Would you? 799 01:52:59,684 --> 01:53:02,340 Send you back to Mayo for another cure. 800 01:53:03,080 --> 01:53:04,168 Christina Galler. 801 01:53:14,483 --> 01:53:16,224 Yeah, you said it felt like 802 01:53:16,441 --> 01:53:18,574 she sucked all the badness out. 803 01:53:35,068 --> 01:53:36,940 As far as I'm concerned, as I say, 804 01:53:37,114 --> 01:53:40,378 Shane is our son, who's very, very talented, 805 01:53:40,552 --> 01:53:42,641 loved very much by us, 806 01:53:43,032 --> 01:53:45,383 extremely trustworthy, 807 01:53:45,818 --> 01:53:47,907 and, of course, of whom we're very proud. 808 01:53:48,125 --> 01:53:49,605 Host: Were you a hellraiser in your time? 809 01:53:49,779 --> 01:53:51,041 - No. - No. 810 01:53:51,302 --> 01:53:53,348 I just had a good time, like Shane. [laughs] 811 01:53:53,522 --> 01:53:54,871 [laughter] 812 01:53:55,045 --> 01:53:56,177 [applause] 813 01:53:57,526 --> 01:53:58,788 Shane: 814 01:54:23,552 --> 01:54:24,422 Here, here. 815 01:54:31,255 --> 01:54:33,954 - [laughs] - Man: You're not drinking enough. 816 01:54:48,011 --> 01:54:50,361 Man: Are you ashamed when you think of all those 817 01:54:50,535 --> 01:54:53,495 people saying that you are destroying yourself 818 01:54:53,712 --> 01:54:54,975 by drinking too much? 819 01:55:02,547 --> 01:55:04,680 They say you're an alcoholic when you're not? 820 01:55:15,430 --> 01:55:18,999 You know, I think he blotted out with the sauce, too much sauce. 821 01:55:19,782 --> 01:55:22,871 Does it piss you off when people try and lecture you? 822 01:55:31,054 --> 01:55:32,316 Man: And how do you deal with it? 823 01:55:36,451 --> 01:55:37,800 [laughs] 824 01:55:39,758 --> 01:55:43,066 Siobhan: We all cover up our vulnerability in whatever way we do it. 825 01:55:43,588 --> 01:55:45,982 His is masked by a kind of aggression. 826 01:55:47,766 --> 01:55:48,680 [woman scoffs] 827 01:55:49,464 --> 01:55:51,814 He has to cut the morphine out. 828 01:55:52,597 --> 01:55:54,034 Siobhan: What I feel 829 01:55:54,948 --> 01:55:58,125 is that he has got the most amazing soul. 830 01:55:58,690 --> 01:56:00,823 He's got the most amazing base. 831 01:56:01,476 --> 01:56:05,871 He was the most incredibly sensitive, funny, 832 01:56:06,046 --> 01:56:10,180 broad-minded and intelligent person that you could meet. 833 01:56:11,007 --> 01:56:15,707 That's probably essentially who he is, and that's what we'll call the soul. 834 01:56:17,100 --> 01:56:20,669 If I'm gonna be honest, it's the drugs and the drink 835 01:56:20,886 --> 01:56:22,671 that make it difficult, you know. 836 01:56:23,063 --> 01:56:28,329 It puts him removed from you, and puts him removed from people. 837 01:56:34,378 --> 01:56:36,119 Man: Are you looking for the pot of gold? 838 01:56:42,125 --> 01:56:43,344 It's all yours, Shane! 839 01:56:43,518 --> 01:56:44,780 Shane: 840 01:56:50,133 --> 01:56:51,395 [leprechaun cackles] 841 01:57:05,192 --> 01:57:07,281 [clock ticking] 842 01:57:07,541 --> 01:57:13,112 Therese: [singing] ♪ So goodnight And God guard you forever ♪ 843 01:57:13,983 --> 01:57:18,943 ♪ And write to me Won't you, goodbye ♪ 844 01:57:19,423 --> 01:57:24,907 ♪ So goodnight And God guard you forever ♪ 845 01:57:26,255 --> 01:57:32,958 ♪ And write to me won't you Goodbye ♪ 846 01:57:36,223 --> 01:57:38,050 [applause, cheering] 847 01:57:39,922 --> 01:57:42,664 Shane: 848 01:58:30,059 --> 01:58:31,843 Victoria: So, like, your body, 849 01:58:32,017 --> 01:58:35,151 you've given it a real bashing, haven't you, over the years. 850 01:58:35,369 --> 01:58:37,458 You've been, like, hit by taxis, you've been... 851 01:58:39,023 --> 01:58:40,504 All kinds of accidents. 852 01:58:41,331 --> 01:58:43,246 How do you feel physically now? 853 01:58:44,987 --> 01:58:46,510 You're, like, in a bit of a state, right? 854 01:58:48,686 --> 01:58:49,600 No? 855 01:58:55,171 --> 01:58:56,041 No. 856 01:59:05,268 --> 01:59:07,096 Do you feel that you'll be able to do that? 857 01:59:09,272 --> 01:59:11,448 And of course you got married last year. 858 01:59:13,581 --> 01:59:14,799 How d'you feel about that? 859 01:59:21,458 --> 01:59:22,590 [laughs] 860 01:59:23,547 --> 01:59:25,375 [music playing] 861 01:59:35,037 --> 01:59:36,691 [crowd vocalizing] 862 01:59:45,047 --> 01:59:45,916 Yeah. 863 01:59:49,007 --> 01:59:49,878 Thanks. 864 01:59:51,401 --> 01:59:52,228 Thank you. 865 01:59:59,279 --> 02:00:01,194 Are you content with what you've achieved? 866 02:00:03,805 --> 02:00:06,547 Do you want to write another song that's as successful 867 02:00:06,764 --> 02:00:07,983 as "Fairytale of New York"? 868 02:00:12,030 --> 02:00:12,988 Why not? 869 02:00:18,907 --> 02:00:21,126 You have to write more songs, there's no excuse. 870 02:00:24,739 --> 02:00:25,740 Gerry: Mm. 871 02:00:27,394 --> 02:00:28,438 Are you writing now? 872 02:00:34,096 --> 02:00:35,010 Gerry: Hmm. 873 02:00:35,924 --> 02:00:36,968 Do you hear the blackbirds singing? 874 02:00:39,493 --> 02:00:41,669 [sings] Blackbirds singing at the dead of night... 875 02:00:41,930 --> 02:00:43,366 [both laugh] 876 02:00:43,584 --> 02:00:44,411 Do you hear it? 877 02:00:58,251 --> 02:01:01,428 I really enjoyed your 60th birthday concert. 878 02:01:03,256 --> 02:01:05,127 [applause, crowd cheering] 879 02:01:05,432 --> 02:01:07,869 ♪ ["A Rainy Night in Soho" playing by The Pogues] ♪ 880 02:01:12,177 --> 02:01:16,704 [singing] ♪ Our song is nearly over ♪ 881 02:01:20,534 --> 02:01:24,625 ♪ We may never find out What it means ♪ 882 02:01:28,237 --> 02:01:34,461 ♪ But there's a light I hold before me ♪ 883 02:01:35,288 --> 02:01:39,553 ♪ You're the measure Of my dreams ♪ 884 02:01:39,944 --> 02:01:43,948 ♪ Oh, measure of my dreams ♪ 885 02:01:44,862 --> 02:01:46,342 Shane: 886 02:02:07,798 --> 02:02:10,758 ♪ ["Streets of Sorrow/ Birmingham Six" playing by The Pogues] ♪ 887 02:02:10,932 --> 02:02:14,152 [singing] ♪ May the whores Of the empire lie awake In their beds ♪ 888 02:02:14,675 --> 02:02:17,678 ♪ And sweat as they count Out the sins on their heads ♪ 889 02:02:18,113 --> 02:02:21,159 ♪ While over in Ireland Eight more men lie dead ♪ 890 02:02:21,725 --> 02:02:24,728 ♪ Kicked down and show in the back of the head ♪ 891 02:02:28,079 --> 02:02:30,081 And when's your 70th one gonna be? 892 02:02:35,260 --> 02:02:37,045 - Right. - [both laugh] 893 02:02:39,917 --> 02:02:42,398 - Man: Mr. Shane MacGowan! - [applause] 894 02:02:50,319 --> 02:02:52,452 [singing] ♪ When it's Summer in Siam ♪ 895 02:02:52,626 --> 02:02:54,062 [crowd cheering] 896 02:02:54,497 --> 02:02:57,108 ♪ And the moon is full Of rainbows ♪ 897 02:02:58,675 --> 02:03:01,809 ♪ When it's Summer in Siam ♪ 898 02:03:02,679 --> 02:03:07,380 ♪ And we go through Many changes ♪ 899 02:03:08,729 --> 02:03:12,341 ♪ When it's Summer in Siam ♪ 900 02:03:12,602 --> 02:03:16,824 ♪ Then all I really know Is that I truly am ♪ 901 02:03:17,955 --> 02:03:21,394 ♪ In the summer in Siam ♪ 902 02:03:22,699 --> 02:03:26,573 ♪ In the summer in Siam ♪ 903 02:03:27,617 --> 02:03:31,665 ♪ In the summer in Siam ♪ 904 02:03:33,188 --> 02:03:35,190 [crowd cheering] 905 02:03:40,543 --> 02:03:42,545 [song continues] 906 02:03:51,206 --> 02:03:53,948 The more I listen to your songs, 907 02:03:54,252 --> 02:03:56,951 I think they broadened our sense of ourselves. 908 02:03:57,430 --> 02:03:59,388 Broadened our sense of Irishness. 909 02:03:59,562 --> 02:04:01,695 It, uh, it deepened our culture. 910 02:04:02,130 --> 02:04:05,046 You made us sad, you made us happy, 911 02:04:05,829 --> 02:04:08,310 you made us laugh, you made us reflect, 912 02:04:08,832 --> 02:04:12,880 because the songs are songs of redemption, 913 02:04:13,228 --> 02:04:17,362 songs of sorrow, you know, the ordinary person's story. 914 02:04:19,190 --> 02:04:22,150 Siobhan: A patriot and a great Irish musician. 915 02:04:23,064 --> 02:04:24,718 He saved Irish music. 916 02:04:25,022 --> 02:04:27,634 I think that's what he would like his legacy to be. 917 02:04:27,851 --> 02:04:29,462 [applause] 918 02:04:32,726 --> 02:04:35,032 Man: Ladies and gentlemen, this has been a celebration 919 02:04:35,206 --> 02:04:36,817 of one of our greatest writers. 920 02:04:37,078 --> 02:04:38,819 So I'm delighted to announce 921 02:04:39,733 --> 02:04:42,562 that the National Concert Hall is tonight making a special Lifetime Achievement Award 922 02:04:43,171 --> 02:04:44,607 - to Shane MacGowan. - [cheering] 923 02:04:44,955 --> 02:04:48,263 In recognition of Shane's unique contribution 924 02:04:48,481 --> 02:04:49,960 to the art of songwriting. 925 02:04:50,395 --> 02:04:53,355 And to present that award, would you please welcome 926 02:04:53,660 --> 02:04:57,315 the patron of the National Concert Hall, President of Ireland, 927 02:04:57,533 --> 02:04:59,100 Michael D. Higgins. 928 02:04:59,404 --> 02:05:01,450 [applause, cheering] 929 02:05:10,415 --> 02:05:12,548 Shane: 930 02:05:24,255 --> 02:05:26,214 Man: Happy birthday, Shane! 931 02:05:28,172 --> 02:05:31,393 Crowd: [singing] ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ 932 02:05:31,654 --> 02:05:36,441 ♪ Happy birthday dear Shane ♪ 933 02:05:36,746 --> 02:05:41,142 ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ 934 02:05:49,324 --> 02:05:50,760 [crowd cheering] 935 02:05:51,065 --> 02:05:52,675 [in Irish Gaelic] 936 02:06:00,117 --> 02:06:03,294 Victoria: Is there anything else that you'd love to have happen in your life? 937 02:06:08,169 --> 02:06:09,126 Victoria: Uh-huh. 938 02:06:29,277 --> 02:06:31,279 ♪ ["A Pair of Brown Eyes" by The Pogues playing] ♪ 939 02:06:33,107 --> 02:06:37,415 ♪ One summer evening Drunk to hell ♪ 940 02:06:37,677 --> 02:06:41,245 ♪ I sat there Nearly lifeless ♪ 941 02:06:42,116 --> 02:06:46,076 ♪ An old man In the corner sang ♪ 942 02:06:46,424 --> 02:06:49,689 ♪ Where the water lilies grow ♪ 943 02:06:50,733 --> 02:06:55,129 ♪ And on the jukebox Johnny sang ♪ 944 02:06:55,520 --> 02:06:58,611 ♪ About a thing called love ♪ 945 02:06:59,437 --> 02:07:03,920 ♪ And it's how are you kid And what's your name ♪ 946 02:07:04,268 --> 02:07:07,620 ♪ And how would you Bloody know? ♪ 947 02:07:08,795 --> 02:07:11,319 Victoria: A lot of your fans are gonna watch this film. 948 02:07:11,885 --> 02:07:14,409 What would you like them to take away from it? 949 02:07:14,583 --> 02:07:17,586 Shane: 950 02:07:25,550 --> 02:07:27,248 [Shane laughs] 951 02:07:27,422 --> 02:07:31,034 ♪ Some prayed, some prayed Then cursed ♪ 952 02:07:31,208 --> 02:07:34,647 ♪ Then prayed Then bled some more ♪ 953 02:07:35,299 --> 02:07:40,043 ♪ And the only thing That I could see ♪ 954 02:07:40,435 --> 02:07:44,526 ♪ Was a pair of brown eyes That was looking at me ♪ 955 02:07:44,787 --> 02:07:49,139 ♪ But when we got back Labeled parts one to three ♪ 956 02:07:49,444 --> 02:07:53,491 ♪ There was no pair Of brown eyes waiting for me ♪ 957 02:07:53,753 --> 02:07:58,105 ♪ And rovin, a rovin A rovin I'll go ♪ 958 02:07:58,366 --> 02:08:02,283 ♪ For a pair of brown eyes ♪ 959 02:08:20,388 --> 02:08:25,132 ♪ And a rovin, a rovin A rovin I'll go ♪ 960 02:08:25,306 --> 02:08:29,876 ♪ And a rovin, a rovin A rovin I'll go ♪ 961 02:08:30,137 --> 02:08:34,315 ♪ And a rovin, a rovin A rovin I'll go ♪ 962 02:08:34,837 --> 02:08:38,275 ♪ For a pair of brown eyes ♪ 963 02:08:38,885 --> 02:08:43,063 ♪ For a pair of brown eyes ♪