Nick Cave performs moving cover of The Pogues’ ‘A Rainy Night In Soho’ at Shane MacGowan’s funeral

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Nick Cave has performed an emotional version of The Pogues‘ ‘A Rainy Night In Soho’ at Shane MacGowan‘s funeral.The Pogues frontman passed away “peacefully” on December 30, having died from pneumonia aged 65.

His funeral occurred today in Tipperary, close to where MacGowan grew up in his childhood. Aidan Gillen and Johnny Depp were amongst the attendees who paid tribute to MacGowan – you can watch the livestream here.Footage of Cave’s cover has now been shared on social media, in which the Australian musician is visibly moved during his performance.

Cave can also be heard changing the lyrics to ‘A Rainy Night’; in the video, he sings: “Now this song is over / We’ll never find out what it means.” Cave sings this modified version instead of the original: “Now this song is nearly over / We many never find out what it means.”Cave has paid tribute to MacGowan several times since his death, praising him as “the greatest songwriter of his generation” and reminiscing on his memories performing at MacGowan’s 60th birthday party with Sinéad O’Connor.“Shane was not revered just for his manifold talents but also loved for himself alone,” he wrote on his website, Red Hand Files. “A beautiful and damaged man, who embodied a kind of purity and innocence and generosity and spiritual intelligence unlike any other.“Sinéad once said of Shane, ‘He is an angel.