Shane MacGowan’s teeth were a conversation point for most of his life.
The Pogues singer Shane MacGowan sadly passed away today, November 30, from viral encephalitis.
For many fans, it was MacGowan’s teeth that made him such a remarkable character, aided of course by his impressive voice.
The singer’s teeth fell out one by one during his musical career and he went through a huge transformation in 2015, spending over nine hours in the dentist seat for his new dentures.
- Shane Macgowan’s teeth gave way to his parting lifestyle
- MacGowan’s teeth transformation
- His wife said it was his teeth that she liked about him
Shane Macgowan’s teeth gave way to his parting lifestyle
MacGowan’s pre-denture teeth were described as “stumps” which had fallen out throughout the years. The singer became a hard-to-forget face thanks to them as he so often sang wth them on display.
Over the years, fans noticed less and less teeth in the star’s mouth during performances and it’s not something he was shy about discussing.
According to reports, MacGowan’s teeth were a consequence of years of partying fouled with drugs and alcohol. MacGowan confirmed to The Independent that part of the damage was even caused by biting down on The Beach Boy vinyl while “out of [his] head.”
MacGowan’s teeth transformation
In 2015, things changed for ManGowan’s smile though, as he underwent extreme dentistry. His last tooth fell out in 2009 and he said he was initially left with a “botch” pair of dentures.
Six years later though, he managed to get an impressive smile back thanks to a team of dentists who described it as “the Everest of dentistry” to The Independent at the time. Macgowan’s transformation was filmed in a documentary titled Shane MacGowan: A Wreck Reborn, which followed the complete process.
Darragh Mulrooney led the dental team in the job and managed to fix MacGowan a set of 28 dentures on a titanium frame, making sure to include one sparkling gold tooth, as requested by The Pogues singer.
His wife said it was his teeth that she liked about him
Writing candidly about her own struggle with her teeth for The Irish Independent, wife Victoria May Clarke admitted that it was actually MacGowan’s teeth that attracted her to him in the first place. For Clarke, his teeth were a sign of rebelliousness and a lack of vanity.
“He is probably best known globally for having hideous teeth. A mouthful of rotting stumps and a gurning grin had become his trademark until this time last year, when he braved the dentists after having avoided it for 58 years,” she wrote.
“What you do or don’t do with your teeth can be a style statement, a political statement, it can convey information about your values, in the same way that the kind of car you drive says something about you. Mine is held together with gaffer tape,” she continued, adding that she didn’t equate flossing to something that “cool” people did.
“Having dodgy teeth and not caring about it was part of what attracted me to Shane (and also to David Bowie and Johnny Rotten). It was a sign of rebelliousness, of being a free spirit, a non-conformist. It was a sign of not being shallow, perhaps, of being willing to see beyond the superficial charm of a Hollywood smile. The Hollywood smile in America simply says that you had a good orthodontist, but in Europe it still carries a stigma of being ‘fake’ or vain.”
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