Northern Irish Blues Guitarist Rory Gallagher, performing on the BBC. This collection includes BBC Rock Goes To College - Live At Middlesex Polytechnic, in December 1979 and Rory at Midnight on BBC NI on 5 January 1984.
Rory Gallagher was the original Irish guitar hero, whose artistry with a battered ’61 Stratocaster became the stuff of legend. Bob Dylan and Muddy Waters admired him, the Rolling Stones tried to hire him - and his fans worshipped him. Clad in faded denim and a checked shirt, he sold 30 million records and became a charismatic icon of Irish music, but away from the stage, Rory was an intensely private man. His closest confidante was his brother Dónal, who accompanied Rory on his rise from their childhood Everly Brothers stage performances and the showband scene across the north and south of the Irish border, through to the deafening heart of the ‘70s rock scene in London - and far beyond. From playing bomb-shattered Belfast at the height of the Troubles to touring across America with everyone from Blind Faith to KISS, Dónal was at Rory's side to witness his greatest triumphs and, after all too brief a span of years, his decline into illness and a tragically early death.
The film tells the story of Eire's seminal rock band Taste, formed in Cork, Ireland in 1966 by Rory Gallagher, Taste had a brief but influential career, releasing two studio albums in 1969 and 1970 and disbanding shortly after their legendary appearance at the 1970 Isle Of Wight Festival, which is the centrepiece of this film.
After an absence of some years from playing in his native city, Rory returns to perform for the first time at Cork's Opera House. Such was the occasion that Irish Television (RTE) had its cameras there to capture the homecoming. This DVD contains the concert originally released on VHS as "Messin' With The Kid - Live At The Cork Opera House", but now with superior audio. To compliment this landmark performance, a unique and highly personal "Rough Guide To Rory's Cork" has been compiled, showing locations, memorabilia and rare & unseen photographs - all supplemented with anecdotes. Plus, there's the "Big Guns" short documentary, a comprehensive discography and much more. TRACK LISTING 1. Continental Op 2. Tattoo'd Lady 3. Don't Start Me Talkin' 4. I Ain't No Saint 5. Follow Me 6. When My Baby She Left Me 7. Off The Handle 8. Out On The Western Plain 9. Wanted Blues 10. The Loop 11. Shadow Play 12. Messin' With The Kid 13. Loanshark Blues
This stunning set includes everything Rory Gallagher filmed for the German Rockpalast TV series. Five complete concerts from Cologne (1976), Essen (1977), Loreley (1982), Wiesbaden (1979) and Cologne (1990) plus Jam Sessions from Wiesbaden (79) and Loreley (82). Also included for the first time is a 20 minute interview with Rory Gallagher from Cologne in 1976. This is the definitive edition of Rory Gallagher on Rockpalast.
Perhaps one of the most treasured blues guitarists over the past 30 years, Rory Gallagher made a number of appearances on Germany's famed Rockpalast show between 1976 and 1990. For the first time ever, all these performances are collected into 1 complete package, with 9 HOURS of Rory at his finest.
Legendary Irish guitarist Rory Gallagher played the renowned Montreux Festival on five occasions spanning his breakthrough years in the mid seventies right up to the year before his tragic early death at the age of 47 in 1995
Story of Irish popular music from 1950 to the present day told by the artists, songwriters, producers and executives who made it all happen. It tells of the dramatic evolution from a grey, conservative culture to a vibrant, colourful music scene which has an enormous popularity and influence completely out of proportion to the size of the country.
Rory Gallagher was an Irish blues and rock musician, songwriter, and bandleader.
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