Springsteen surprised his old pal MacGowan at his Dublin home before his show at the RDS with The E Street Band in May last year
Rock legend Bruce Springsteen has revealed his own songwriting idol is the late Pogues hellraiser Shane MacGowan.
Road Diary, a new behind-the-scenes documentary on The Boss’s current tour with The E Street Band started airing on Disney+ at the weekend. “So I’m talking a lot of Shane here, but because he was one of the great, great writers of the past half-century… all of those songs were just wonderful, wonderful songs.”
“They lived on a farm. They moved into town. We had the first church service and the first funeral in our house. We had five houses on the block all filled with Irish and one Italian outpost, you know.
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