Victoria Mary Clarke on getting Bruce Springsteen involved in an album of Shane MacGowan songs
As the first anniversary of Shane MacGowan's death approaches, his wife Victoria Mary Clarke is helping to keep his memory alive with plans for a star-studded album of the late singer's songs
Victoria Mary Clarke & Shane MacGowan in 2008. Picture: Mark Doyle
We've not heard the last of Shane MacGowan and, with the help of friends and admirers, unpublished songs written by the much-loved bard will be given a new lease of life. Victoria Mary Clarke first met MacGowan in north London during the early 1980s.
It would take a few years before they became a couple, and after a long courtship, they would eventually marry in 2013.
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