A new film about the hellraising life of Shane McGowan is set to give a raw glimpse into the singer's battles with drugs and alcohol, through never-before-seen footage
The film, Crock of Gold, produced by Johnny Depp, looks back the musician's eventful life - from his childhood in Ireland with big dreams of pursuing a career in music, to moving to London when he was 13 before becoming a musical icon.
In the trailer for the new film, released on 20th November, his younger sister Siobhan, a journalist and musician, said he was never the same after The Pogues' first world tour, saying: 'He went away and he didn't come back, not the Shane that I ever knew.'
She then went on to reveal doctors had told her that at one point, if he continued in the same way he was, Shane - who has described how heroin 'messed him up' - only had six months to live.
However, defiant Shane, 62, can be heard in a voiceover stating: 'If I really wanted to die I'd be dead already.'
