“Fairytale of New York” songwriter died at 3 a.m. Thursday with his wife and family by his side. He was 65.The musician’s wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, told the New York Times that her husband had also battled a devastating brain swelling condition.MacGowan, who would have turned 66 on Christmas Day, was released from hospital just last week.Clarke confirmed her husband’s death Thursday, saying the beloved singer “will always be the light that I hold before me and the measure of my dreams and the love of my life.”“I don’t know how to say this so I am just going to say it,” she wrote on Instagram. “There’s no way to describe the loss that I am feeling and the longing for just one more of his smiles that lit up my world,” she said of the “love of my life and the most beautiful soul and beautiful angel.”He received treatment in Dec.
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