“I don’t know who’ll be listening to my music in 100 years but I know they’ll be listening to Shane’s.” Bruce Springsteen honours the late Shane MacGowan, shares cover of A Rainy Night In Soho from tribute album featuring Tom Waits, Kate Moss
Bruce Springsteen has shared a cover of The Pogues A Rainy Night In Soho from an upcoming tribute album to the late, great Shane MacGown.
20th Century Paddy: The Songs of Shane MacGowan will also feature covers recorded by Tom Waits, Steve Earle, Primal Scream, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Kate Moss, Johnny Depp with Imelda May, Hozier with Jessie Buckley, The Libertines, The Murder Capital, Dropkick Murphys, Glen Hansard, the surviving members of The Pogues and many more.
Accompanying his cover of A Rainy Night In Soho, a 1986 single from The Pogues’ Poguetry in Motion EP, and the London-Irish band’s first UK Top 40 single, Springsteen has contributed an essay putting MacGowan in a musical lineage of “natural rebels” which includes Woody Guthrie, Little Richard, Hank Williams, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley.
“Shane was all naked bottomless humanity,” he continues. “Threatening to force us to ask ourselves if we were living deeply, authentically. He was raw, hilarious, no apologies and profound. His soul was filled with the transgressive and ecstatic properties of the saints. I don’t know who’ll be listening to my music in 100 years but I know they’ll be listening to Shane’s.”
In his essay, Springsteen also writes of spending an afternoon with MacGowan in Dublin shortly before his death.
“He was not well but he and his wife, Victoria, proved warm and gracious hosts,” he writes. “As I left, I thanked him for his beautiful work, his music, his songs, his life. I stood in his warmth, kissed him and told him I loved him.”
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