WHAT WE’VE LEARNT

● One of Shane MacGowan’s classmates at the prestigious Westminster School was Thomas Morgan Robertson AKA British electronic musician and future ’80s pop star Thomas Dolby.

● Recording sessions for MacGowan’s first album with the Popes were so drug-fuelled that tapes were nightly delivered to Cult and Manics producer Steve Brown who gave them a stadium polish. “The band were so out of it no one even noticed.”

● Whilst lodging with Kathy MacMillan, MacGowan decided to drop 20 tabs of acid and listen to Puccini’s Madam Butterfly. He got so high that he started to eat a vinyl copy of The Beach Boys’ Greatest Hits thinking “the future of the world” depended on it.