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