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Shane MacGowan: Adder Few Drinks

Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 20 October 1994

One of them's the stumbling genius who used to front The Pogues, the other's a chisel-jawed Hollywood superstar actor. They are drinking buddies SHANE MACGOWAN and JOHNNY DEPP, joined together for the bristling solo return of the greatest living Irish poet's new LP, The Snake. GAVIN MARTIN gets his round in.

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