Book description
This bibulous, drug-indulgent and anarchic rock legend was born on a
small farm in Tipperary, won a scholarship to Westminster, was rapidly
expelled, became a rent boy, then a central figure of punk and the
hugely influential star of The Pogues. MacGowan's music, innovative and
powerful, is as distinctive as his chaotic, breakdown-scarred, drug and
alcohol-fuelled lifestyle. MacGowan has an enormous fan-base hungry for
stories of his wild behaviour, but this is also a book that celebrates
this unique and charming musician, and offers insight into his
remarkable perspective on this world - and the next! 'One of the
freshest, most original biographies I've ever read . . . Buy the book,
it's great.' Lynn Barber, The Observer 'All human life is here.' Q
Magazine
