Shane MacGowan: Crash Course To Oblivion
Adrian Deevoy, Q, February 1993
Cancel the hearses! Desist with the obituaries! For Shane MacGowan lives, in spite of a heroic chemical intake and his ownership of the Western world's least savoury bathroom. "I love seeking pleasure," he tells Adrian Deevoy; "I like finding it even more."
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