U2 honored their longtime good friend Shane MacGowan with an acoustic cowl of the Pogues’ “A Wet Day in Soho” final evening (Dec. 1) throughout their residency at Sphere on the Venetian in Las Vegas. Irish music legend MacGowan died Thursday on the age of 65, prompting Bono to tweak the track’s lyrics: “MacGowan’s track isn’t over, however we could by no means discover out what it means,” he sang. “You’re the measure of my goals.”
Bono isn’t any stranger to “A Wet Day in Soho,” having carried out it at MacGowan’s 60th birthday bash in Dublin in 2018. That occasion additionally featured Nick Cave, the late Sinéad O’Connor, Carl Barat, Bobby Gillespie, Jesse Malin, and Glen Hansard.
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“Shane MacGowan’s songs have been excellent so he or we his followers didn’t need to be,” U2 wrote on Instagram following MacGowan’s passing.
U2’s Sphere residency continues by way of mid-February. The Pogues’ cowl is simply the second track the band has carried out by one other artist throughout the run, following a run by way of “Shallow” with Girl Gaga on Oct. 25.
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