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Shane MacGowan was ‘vibrant, beautiful and determined to live’, wife says ahead of Friday's funeral

Source: PA

The wife of Shane MacGowan has said the singer was “so vibrant and beautiful and so determined to live" just days before his death at the age of 65.

Irish journalist Victoria Mary Clarke was at the side of the frontman of along with his family when

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