Belfast toasts blues legend Rory on anniversary
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Irish blues guitarist Rory Gallagher would have celebrated his 60th birthday this year, had he lived.
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The Top 40. . . And the next 53
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
The complet list of those who made the cut and those who nearly did.
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Illustrating the debt owed by B Springsteen to R Gallagher
Tom Morton's Beatcroft (Free subscription) | 01/17/2008
It must have been, I don't know, 1972 that Rory Gallagher played in the Caledonian Hotel in Ayr. I was still at school in Troon and, having been bought the Taste album by my Uncle John, was a huge fan. I pined to go to that gig. But at 16 and with my highly religious parents (and conscience), rock music on licensed premises in the den of iniquity 10 miles down the coast was unthinkable. So I never...
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Big bands, wee ( or just odd) gigs...and Fife, Kingdom of Rock!
Tom Morton's Beatcroft (Free subscription) | 11/07/2007
This all stated with an emailfrom Sandy and Fiona Forbes, who comprise the moving force behind the excellent Kirkcaldy Acoustic Music Club. Recalling the importance of the 1960s Island compilation album You Can All Join In (we had a 'sampler LP' thread running on the show last week) Sandy mentioned the stellar lineup of bands that appeared during the 60s at, of all places, the YMCA in Kirkcaldy: I...
