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Foster & Allen began
back in the seventies when Mick and Tony were playing in
Country Music bands around
Ireland.
In 1975 they
formed a small group and went over to the
UK to work the
Irish music venues on a short tour. Mick & Tony had at this stage the idea of working together as a duo, playing ‘hardcore rock’ music with a touch of traditional Irish instrumentals. When their UK tour finished they decided to let the band return to Ireland whilst they stayed behind to try and break into the public eye. They played several venues in the London area and the reaction was very favourable; so much so, they decided to remain as a duo and Foster and Allen was unleashed upon the world. It was difficult at the beginning and after a time working around the circuit in the UK and Ireland, they released their first single record The Rambles of Spring. This made a good impact on the Irish market and Foster and Allen were soon in demand for cabaret venues all over Ireland and to a much lessor extent the UK At the end of 1978 Foster and Allen released the single A Bunch Of Thyme in Ireland, which entered the Irish charts and became their first top-selling No. 1 single. |
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The Saw Doctors are a folk-rock band from Tuam, County Galway in the west of Ireland, named after the itinerant craftsmen who once traveled from sawmill to sawmill sharpening and repairing saws.The band boasts a fervent following both at home and abroad and hold the record for Ireland's biggest-selling single ever. Ireland's Dublin-based music cognoscenti have often sneered at the band's rootedness in "backward" West of Ireland locales. However, the Saw Doctors have nevertheless proved themselves a true "people's band," and have a fervent following, especially in Ireland and among Irish-Americans in the United States. |
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The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed group in the history of popular music.[2] Their innovative music and cultural impact helped define the 1960s.[2] The Beatles are the best-selling musical act of all time in the United States, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, which certified them as the highest selling band of all time, based on American sales of singles and albums.[3] In the United Kingdom, the Beatles released more than 40 different singles, albums, and EPs that reached number one. This commercial success was repeated in many other countries: their record company, EMI, estimated that by 1985 they had sold over one billion discs and tapes worldwide.[4] In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked the Beatles #1 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[5] |
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It is difficult to visit all sightseeing in St.
Petersburg. But there is no doubt, that without the folk show "Feel yourself
Russian" at the Nikolaevsky Palace your visit wouldn't be completed. This
show is the unique opportunity to experience the history and spirit of
Russia during one evening. |
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When The Stars Go Blue |
 The Hot House Flowers |
The Hothouse Flowers are an Irish rock group that combines traditional Irish music with influences from soul, gospel and rock. The group first formed in 1985 when Liam Ó Maonlaí and Fiachna Ó Braonáin (who had known each other as children in an Irish-speaking school) began performing as street musicians, or buskers, on the streets of Dublin, Ireland as "The Incomparable Benzini Brothers." They were soon joined by Peter O'Toole, and had won a street-entertainer award within a year. They renamed the group "Hothouse Flowers" and began writing songs and performing throughout Ireland. Rolling Stone magazine called them "the best unsigned band in Europe." In 1986
Bono
from the
band U2, saw
the Flowers performing on
television and offered his support. They released their first
single, "Love Don't Work This Way", on U2's
Mother Records label, which quickly led to a deal with the
PolyGram
subsidiary
London Records. |
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Van Morrison... was born in Belfast in 1945, the son of a shipyard worker who collected American blues and jazz records. Van grew up listening to the music of Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson, Lightnin' Hopkins and John Lee Hooker. As a teenager he played guitar, sax and harmonica with a series of local Irish showbands, skiffle and rock'n'roll groups before forming an r&b band called Them in 1964. In 1967 he began his solo career in New York where he recorded an LP titled Blowin' Your Mind with the producer Bert Berns, who had previously produced Them. Following Berns' death in 1968 Morrison recruited a group of jazz musicians to record Astral Weeks, a timeless classic which brought together elements of Celtic music, improvised jazz and r&b. More... |
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