‘Chaos? This is natural living!’ The genius of Shane MacGowan | Sean O’Hagan

Our writer pays tribute to the fiercely authentic Pogues frontman he first met selling records in the 1970s

Last week, as the weather turned cold in the wake of Shane MacGowan's passing, some lines from the Pogues' first single, Dark Streets of London, kept echoing in my head.

Now the winter comes down, I can't stand the chill

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