The making of vulnerable genius Shane MacGowan Drinking two bottles of Guinness a day aged five yet reading literary classics aged 12, how a divergent upbringing continued throughout the life of a poetic, fast living punk who turned Irish music inside out
about 2 years in Daily mail
PHILIP NOLAN: Shane MacGowan's death yesterday brings to a close one of the most rambunctious musical and personal lives of the past 40 years.