Shane MacGowan: ‘The first horse I ever bet on came in at 10-1 — I was five years old’
In 2001, Victoria and Shane published ‘A Drink With Shane MacGowan’, a question-and-answer-style book. Here, in an abridged extract, the singer explains his upbringing, beginning by answering Victoria’s question about why his early years were spent with relatives in a Tipperary farmhouse
Shane MacGowan with his mother Therese at the family home in Tipperary where he grew up. Photo: Getty
I was a kid at the time, so I don’t know — but working it out, it’d seem that my parents left me here to be brought up by my mother’s family while they got on with their work, because they both had jobs in England.
They were very unhappy in England and wanted me to have as much happiness as possible before they had to send me to school.
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