WEBVTT FILE 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 ♪