Bruce Springsteen and Nick Cave pay tribute to the late Shane MacGowan | celebrities

In his article, Cave also includes Sinead O’Connor, who died earlier this year. He remembers meeting the two at a celebration of McGowan’s 60th birthday. Cave, who recorded Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World with McGowan in 1992, says he was touched by the way audiences loved his Irish friend. “What touched me in that moment was the audience’s extraordinary display of pure, powerful love for this man. It was something I had never experienced before,” Cave wrote.

“Shane has been honored not only for his many talents, but also for his personality,” Keefe continues. “A beautiful but damaged man who embodies a kind of purity, innocence, generosity and spiritual intelligence that is unparalleled.” Keefe also recalls that Sinead O’Connor once said that McGowan was an angel. Cave doesn’t dare say whether this is true. “But Shane had an extraordinary kindness and a deep sense of what was real, which was strangely compounded by his brokenness and humanity. He was loved throughout the land.” He concludes his article by saying that O’Connor, who died earlier this year, was also much loved. “They will both be greatly missed.”

Bruce Springsteen also wrote an article about McGowan. “Shane was one of my favorite songwriters ever,” says The Boss. “The passion and visceral intensity of his music and lyrics are unparalleled.”

Springsteen also mentions his last meeting with MacGowan. In May, before his show in Dublin, the American visited him. “I was fortunate to spend time with Shane and his beautiful wife Victoria. He was very ill, but still beautifully present in heart and mind. Springsteen describes MacGowan’s music as timeless and eternal. “A hundred years from now, people will still be singing Shane’s songs.”