If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story Page #4

and heavily caked with one thing or other

I don't know what

and he looked a bit dazed

he said that he had... uhh... been

in hospital you know

I knew he was on pills or something

like that but he was lucid

whenever we started talking and... uhh...

he just started to hang around the shop

as soon as he discovered what

was happening in the punk scene

which was, "trust yourself,"

whatever talent you thought you had

and if uhh... you felt you could make

get out there and do it

and Shane did

there's one punk... the Sex Pistols

the rest of them are rubbish

I'm not interested

what's more I probably wouldn't

have been that interested in them

if Johnny Rotten hadn't been so

bloody obviously Irish you know

and made a big noise about it and

made such anti-English records... yeah?

no future

in England's dreamin'

punk was speed-fueled which was why

everybody was so bloody obnoxious you know

spitting in your face

and getting aggressive

and fighting and all the rest of it

but you know that was the scene

the youth scene

mods punks and so it was all speed

and that was... that would have

been the general drug speed and drink

God save the queen...

she ain't no human being...

she's made you a moron

potential h-bomb

he uhh... started producing a fanzine

the first I heard of his creative bent

and uhh... Shane came in with his fanzine

and started selling that

and then the next thing I knew

he was putting a band together

myself and my partner

in the shop at the time

decided we would try and manage the Nips

as they were then called

well actually they were called

the Nipple Erectors

but we had a problem in

that people didn't want

Nipple Erectors on posters

it was supposed to be sexist

which I could never understand

since everybody's got them

but umm... we had to shorten it

from the Nipple Erectors to the Nips

he's well-known as a very good lyricist

a poet even for the

Pogues stuff that he writes

but even the stuff that he

was writing for the Nips

was um... even if you had

taken it out of the pop context

and put an air to it

it still would have been...

it could have been a Pogues song you know?

things like Gabrielle you know?

let's go down to the old West End

you know? like we used to do

when you were my girlfriend...

take the 73 to the city...

you sitting there looking so pretty

the crap I wrote for the Nips

I could write in my sleep

you know it was pop you know

you know I mean... like

you know... I mean like

it was a...

it was a teenage anthem you know

I've never stopped writing adolescent crap

it's just some people can't tell

the real... you know... pop

from the real thing you know?

he always said he wanted to be a

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