LIFE’S A GAS I could have loved you girl Like a planet I could have chained your heart To a star But it really doesn’t matter at all But it really doesn’t matter at all Life’s a gas. I hope it’s gonna last. I could have built a house On the ocean I could placed your love In the sky I could have turned you Into a priestess I could have burned Your fate in the sand But it really doesn’t matter at all No it really doesn’t matter at all Life’s a gas. I hope it’s gonna last. – […]
“IF YOU SEE DEE DEE PLEASE GIVE HIM MY LOVE” BP Fallon – who toured with the Ramones in 1977 and 1978 – dips into the archives of oblivion to remember Dee Dee Ramone “Somebody called me on the phone/ They said ‘Hey, is Dee Dee home?/ Do you wanna take a walk/ You wanna go cop/ You wanna go get some Chinese rocks?’/ I’m living on a Chinese rock/ All my best things are in hock…/ It’s hard as a bitch/ I should’ve been rich/ But I’m just digging a Chinese ditch” – ‘Chinese Rocks’ by Dee Dee Ramone […]
Marc Bolan & BP Fallon, London 1970. Photography by Barrie Wentzell TO SAY I LOVED MARC BOLAN WOULD BE UNTRUE I LOVE HIM A PERFECT MAN? NO A MAGIC MAN? YES MARC HAD A ROCK’N’ROLL HEART AND STYLE AND FLASH AND HE KNEW HOW TO MAKE THE GIRLS CRY IN HAPPINESS THERE’S MORE OF COURSE BUT THAT’LL DO FOR NOW KEEP ON CHOOGLING, MARC YOU ARE HERE FOREVER I LOVE YOU -BP Fallon x Written a year ago in Dublin Sept 16 2012 Marc Bolan died 36 years ago today. He was 29 years of age and rocking. Marc Bolan […]
The Heartbreakers – Johnny Thunders (gtr/vox), Walter Lure (gtr/vox), Billy Rath (bs/vox), Jerry Nolan (drms) – ‘Chinese Rocks’ 1977 BP Fallon & Johnny Thunders, The New Inn, Dublin 1990 by Paul Murphy Read “You meet Johnny in 1972 in the after midnight of a dentist’s surgery in Harlem…” Johnny Thunders July 15th 1952 – April 23rd 1991 Jerry Nolan May 7th 1946 – January 14th 1992 The New York Dolls – David Johansen (vox), Johnny Thunders (gtr/vox), Sylvain Sylvain (gtr/vox), Arthur Kane (bs), Jerry Nolan (drms) – ‘Personality Crisis’ 1973 Classic! Johnny Thunders talking to Shay Healy on ‘Nighthawks’ (RTE) […]
I don’t claim to know the game of politics or indeed most of the story. If you know nothing you can never be wrong. Garret Fitzgerald celebrating his 75th birthday with his granddaughters. He was 85 when he died earlier today. I liked Garret Fitzgerald. We were having our makeup done, he and I, at the RTE television studios in Dublin. We were about to go on screen for the Irish tv link-up into Live Aid. It’s July 13th 1985 and much of the world is throbbing to Bob Geldof’s initiative. As we sat there being powdered, he leant towards […]