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The Pogues: Academy, Manchester

Nick Hasted, The Independent, 17 December 2001

NO ONE THOUGHT this would happen again. When Shane MacGowan split from the Pogues in 1991, because of growing drunken unreliability, the idea that he'd even be alive to sing with them 10 years on would have been doubted by many.

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