Global star Johnny jetted in specially for Shane's service and read the Prayers of The Faithful at the service hailed as the greatest send-off in Irish history, with Glen Hansard and The Pogues singing Fairytale of New York. But for Philly, it was Depp carrying his friend's coffin which topped everything else.
Along with attending the funeral mass on December 8, Depp was also at the official wake until the early hours of Saturday, December 9 at the Thatched Cottage Pub in Ballycommon with around 250 other mourners.
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Depp did a reading at the ceremony, and also joined pallbearers in carrying MacGowan's coffin from the church at the end of the service – which an undertaker now says panicked Depp's security detail.
Shane MacGowan funeral – latest: Johnny Depp, Bono and Bob Geldof give readings at Tipperary service. Thousands of mourners including Irish leaders and the country's biggest celebrities have gathered to pay their respects to Shane MacGowan, the iconic singer of The Pogues, on Friday.
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Synopsis. Shane MacGowan, The Pogues' frontman, was honored at a heartfelt funeral attended by stars like Johnny Depp and Nick Cave in Ireland. The service featured tributes, musical renditions, and a Dublin procession where mourners paid respects.
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More than an hour before the funeral was due to begin, devoted followers of MacGowan and The Pogues had gathered outside the church. The actor Johnny Depp was a pallbearer while Irish president Michael D Higgins also turned up to St Mary of the Rosary Church to pay his respects to MacGowan, who died on November 30.
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Shane was a great friend of the lads, Bono and The Edge were among the few allowed in to see him. They'll honour him in their own way.” Nick Cave and Johnny Depp are expected to be at the Public Mass in Nenagh.
As the song reached its emotional crescendo, friends and family of MacGowan, and his wife Victoria, 58, danced around the star's coffin and in the aisles of the church, in beautiful tribute to the star.
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Hollywood star Johnny Depp defied orders to carry his friend Shane MacGowan's coffin, an undertaker admits. Philly Ryan revealed he invited the actor to perform the honour of helping carry The Pogues star's coffin at St Mary of the Rosary Church, but explained this was not part of the original plan.
MacGowan was long known for having very bad teeth. He lost the last of his natural teeth sometime around 2008. In 2015, he had a new set of teeth—including one gold tooth—fitted in a nine-hour procedure. The new set of teeth was secured by eight titanium implants in his jaws.
In 1976, he achieved notoriety when a girlfriend cut his earlobe with a broken bottle during an early Clash gig. Photographs of MacGowan, his head covered in blood, appeared in the press. By the following year, MacGowan had formed his own band, the Nipple Erectors, later renamed the Nips.
The story of Shane MacGowan's friendship with actor Johnny Depp – however unlikely it may seem – made “sense”, said director Julien Temple. From album credits for “guitar weird noises” and appearances together on Top of the Pops, the pair have known each other for more than thirty years.
The procedure was the subject of the hour-long television programme Shane MacGowan: A Wreck Reborn, which was broadcast on Sky Arts. The documentary followed the work of Irish dental surgeon Darragh Mulrooney who took on the mammoth task of giving the singer a brand-new set of teeth.
Mr Depp had an emotional moment as he touched the coffin of his friend and Pogues lead singer, Shane MacGowan. MacGowan, who died last week following a battle with pneumonia, is most well-known for the Christmas classic The Fairytale of New York, which is expected to reach Number One in the charts this season.
