‘He kept me going through homesickness, loneliness and guilt’: readers on Shane MacGowan

Pete Doherty recalls wild first meeting with Shane MacGowan when The Pogues frontman stole his crack pipe - as he pays tribute to late singer

Shane MacGowan's widow shares touching snaps of The Pogues hitmaker throughout the night after his death at 65 - as Fairytale Of New York soars to number one in the charts

Whether in song or in silence, Shane MacGowan exuded the very essence of life