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Shane MacGowan’s widow has penned an obituary for the singer in which she says she told him to “F– off” when they first met. Victoria Mary Clarke, who married the late Pogues frontman in 2018 – and was at his deathbed on 30 November when he died aged 65 after years of drug and drink addiction and illnesses including pneumonia – also opened her tribute by saying she never wanted to write it. She said in a tribute given to The Independent: “Nobody wants to write a eulogy for the love of their life, and I didn’t think I had it in me to write one for Shane. “I fully expected to be one of those wiv…

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