FILE – Irish singer Shane MacGowan attends the funeral mass of Irish poet Seamus Heaney at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Donnybrook, Dublin, Ireland, Monday, Sept. 2, 2013. Macgowan, the singer-songwriter and frontman of The Pogues, best known for their ballad “Fairytale of New York,” has died. He was 65. His family said in a statement that “it is with the deepest sorrow and heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of our most beautiful, darling and dearly beloved Shane Macgowan.” The singer died peacefully early Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023 with his family by his side, the statement added.