The Pogues - Rainy Night in Soho (1986 - original version with cornet) - Shane MacGowan RIP

The Pogues - Rainy Night in Soho, the original version with cornet, the one Shane preferred. “Rave on in the garden all wet with rain that you loved so much. You meant the world to me.“ - Victoria Mary Clarke, November 30, 2023. (from Wikipedia): A Rainy Night in Soho“, released in 1986, was originally included on their Poguetry in Motion EP. Two recordings and various mixes of the song were made in the studio. Songwriter Shane MacGowan and producer Elvis Costello clashed over the final mix of the song, with MacGowan preferring a mix featuring a cornet, and Costello preferring a version with oboe. The cornet version was used, except for Canadian editions of the EP, which used the oboe version. A third version combining elements of both mixes was issued on the 1991 Poguetry In Motion re-issue, and is also available on the remastered and expanded Hell’s Ditch CD. Other mixes have surfaced on various compilations and bootlegs, and according to guitarist Philip Chevron there are “something like 13 versions... with different edits of the two recordings“.