Author: Marcus Connaughton
Brand: Collins Pr
Edition: New edition
Number Of Pages: 250
Publisher: The Collins Press
Release Date: 17-09-2012
Details: Product description RORY GALLAGHER (1948-1995) is a hero and icon of rock music. He inspired guitar players from The Edge to Johnny Marr, Slash to Gary Moore, Johnny Fean to Philip Donnelly, Declan Sinnott to Brian May. He toured incessantly and sold over 30 million albums worldwide. In 1963, at the age of fifteen, Rory bought his trademark Fender Stratocaster. He discovered the blues when pop magazines and radio were scarce in Ireland and later won the Melody Maker Guitarist of the Year in 1972, ahead of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck. Acknowledged as one of the world's leading guitarists, he collaborated with his boyhood hero Muddy Waters, and played with Jerry Lee Lewis, Albert King and Lonnie Donegan. In this compelling biography, contemporaries, fellow musicians, film maker Tony Palmer and Taste drummer John Wilson tell stories about Rory from his meteoric rise in the late 1960s with Taste to his remarkable solo career. This is a compelling testament to the musical life of a shy and retiring working-class hero, distinguished by his checked shirts and his astounding dexterity on acoustic and electric guitar the guitarist and blues man who blazed a trail for others to follow. Review Definitive biography. --Irish Examiner Music Book of the Fortnight ... impressively detailed. --Hot Press A long time coming. --The Irish Times About the Author MARCUS CONNAUGHTON is a veteran of the Irish record industry. In the late 1980s he joined RTÉ as a radio producer. Over the past twenty-plus years, he has produced a wide range of programming from the Metal Show on 2FM to Bluestime on RTÉ Radio 1, and currently presents and produces Seascapes. He delivered the Inaugural Rory Gallagher Memorial Lecture in November 1995 in Cork, and has compered and spoken at numerous tributes to the late guitarist in Ireland, Britain and Europe. Visit the Marcus Connaughton page on Facebook for more information or contact Marcus by email bluestimer@gmail.com
EAN: 8601200805789
Package Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.5 x 0.8 inches
Languages: English
Binding: Hardcover
Item Note: Minor bumps to dust jacket, otherwise a near-new copy.
Item Condition: UsedVeryGood