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Rory Gallagher: His Life and Times

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Description for Rory Gallagher: His Life and Times Paperback. A compelling testament to Rory Gallagher and the musical life of a shy and retiring working-class hero, distinguished by his check shirts and his astounding dexterity on acoustic and electric guitar - the guitarist and blues man who blazed a trail for others to follow. Num Pages: 192 pages, 30 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBR; AVGP; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133. .

Rory Gallagher 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. 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Gill
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, Ireland
ISBN
9781848893184
SKU
9781848893184
Shipping Time
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99-1

About Marcus Connaughton
MARCUS CONNAUGHTON is a veteran of the Irish record industry. In the late 1980s he joined RTE 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 RTE Radio 1, and currently presents and produces Seascapes. He delivered the Inaugural Rory Gallagher Memorial Lecture ... Read more

Reviews for Rory Gallagher: His Life and Times
is a wonderful work, and I am grateful to have some of my conversation with Rory live on in your pages."
Jas Obrecht, former editor of Guitar Player
"Alive with photographs."
Southern Star
"Comprehensive and authoritative."
Donegal News
"Music Book of the Fortnight ... impressively detailed."
Hot Press
"Handsomely produced."
... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Rory Gallagher: His Life and Times


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