well I never had breakfast with him and yet I was also fascinated by his 'teeth.'

They were a thing. A distraction.

There was Shane McGowan and his teeth like a double act disorientating people endlessly. I reckon his teeth were from Russia or Ukraine defo more Eastern European than Irish.

At least he had 'teeth.' Many Irish people never had them as Margaret Thatcher stole them and gave them to Ronald Reagan. During the miners strike in the 80's (the 1980's in case you are trying to pin it down to an '80's').  He was allowed to keep his. It fitted into a category of 'The Unwanted Teeth'. A sub category of Irishness that MI5 in their godforsaken genocidal desire to suppress the Irish nationalist cause decided to make us all toothless. 

Did you ever meet Sinead O Connor? Such a beautiful soul. Both of them. God bless them.