Shane MacGowan has passed on.

He was 65 years old.

I probably wouldn't know who he was, but I was listening to public radio (91.3 WYEP) a long time ago and they played a duet of him (when he was front man for The Pogues)  with Sinéad O’Connor doing "Haunted" and the contrast between the two voices appealed to me to such an extent that I went to a CD store and bought the disc.  I have a CD of him with The Popes as well; I believe I bought it for a Bob Dylan cover they did.

I always had the impression that he was living pretty hard.