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Rory Gallagher and Taste at the Isle of Wight festival in 1970. Picture by John Minihan, courtesy of the Gallagher family “This is Rory in his check shirt.
More than 60 years after Rory Gallagher bought his infamous 1961 Fender Stratocaster from Crowley’s Music Store in Cork, Ireland, Joe Bonamassa has followed in his footsteps. On the eve of three Rory ...
Rock legend Rory Gallagher's brother and long-time manager has revealed the siblings' varying reactions to an early word of ...
He may have been fired by his little brother at the age of seven, but Donal Gallagher doesn’t hold a grudge, as he and son ...
But it was with the second incarnation of Taste, with Richard McCracken on bass and John Wilson on drums, that Gallagher toured the United States with Eric Clapton and Blind Faith before putting ...
The him is Rory Gallagher. Blues virtuoso, check shirt wizard, prodigal son of Cork and Donegal, Ireland’s first rock star and guitar hero to many around the world, including Smiths legend Marr.
With Taste he lit the flame for every Irish band that followed. As a solo artist, ... Rory Gallagher performs on stage, London, 1973, L-R Rory Gallagher, Gerry McAvoy, Rod de'Ath.
Rory Gallagher, born in Co Donegal and raised in Co Cork, ... After forming the band Taste during the late 1960s, Gallagher recorded solo albums throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
John Lennon had ‘turned up’ to a Taste gig at the Lyceum Theatre in London and was asked by interviewers the following week what new music he liked. ‘He just said he wasn’t particularly enamoured with ...
These otherwise beloved TV shows disappointed fans by failing to honor beloved characters, from tragic fates to rushed ...