Overview

• Shane MacGowan, the late Pogues frontman, lived a life of extreme substance abuse and chaos, as recalled by his widow Victoria Mary Clarke in recent interviews.
• Clarke described their life together as living on the 'edge of some kind of actual destruction', with MacGowan often setting fire to things and taking large amounts of drugs.
• Despite the chaos, Clarke remembers MacGowan as a sensitive soul, constantly thinking of words and needing something to write them on.
• Clarke plans to release a book of MacGowan's 'unpublished' songs, many of which were written about her.
• Clarke believes she still maintains a connection with MacGowan after his death, stating 'I’ve actually been doing fine, because I feel like he’s still here.'