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This memoir by Black 47 front man Larry Kirwan begins in Wexford and traces the impact on a young Kirwan of his Irish Republican grandfather, his mysterious and often absent deep-sea sailing father and his first bandleader Elvis Murphy. These influences propelled him to the Dublin of the early 70s and later Kirwan emigrated to New York, where he eventually formed the political rock band Black 47. He gives a dry-eyed and unsparing account of the tumultuous trajectory of Black 47 and of the band's ongoing political commitment and opposition to the war in Iraq.
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Green Suede Shoes This memoir by Black 47 front man Larry Kirwan begins in Wexford and traces the impact on a young Kirwan of his Irish Republican grandfather, his mysterious and often absent deep-sea sailing father and his first bandleader Elvis Murphy. These influences propelled him to the Dublin of the early 70s and later Kirwan emigrated to New York, where he eventually formed the political rock band Black 47. ... Full description
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The scintillating memoir of a New York rock 'n' roller This rock 'n' roll Angela's Ashes begins in County Wexford, Ireland, in the late 1950s, a now-unrecognizable, womb-like, priest-fearing backwater suffocating in superstition and strangled by sexual fevers. After an escape to the Bronx, Larry finds himself, like a musical Zelig, side by side with the Ramones and Blondie at CBGB; the brothers McCourt, Lester Bangs, and Nick Tosches at the Bells of Hell; Cyndi Lauper while she ascends and burns; Joe Strummer, Ric Ocasek, Neil Young, and Shane MacGowan while Black 47 is being formed among the Guinness-soaked regulars of Paddy Reilly's.
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- PublisherBrandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0863223435
- ISBN 13 9780863223433
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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