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There was a period in the early 2000s when I had been doing celebrity profiles and thought I’d lost my way creatively.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 November 2018 source ↗
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I have worked in McDonald’s.
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When I was younger, I appeared in the Halifax adverts that featured a cake or a bridge made of hundreds of people. You stood there for three days and were not even really seen.
Shane MacGowan
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Helping to slaughter farmyard animals as a kid; watching while my aunties cut them up to get their guts out and seeing eggs floating around in the hens. That made me become a vegetarian.
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Treating a flock of sheep for foot rot when I was a farm labourer.
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