Selected
newspaper and magazine articles plus excerpts from books
by BP Fallon
"I was like this even
before I was Van Morrison"
On
the road with Van Morrison in New York, New Orleans
and Memphis, 1996.
The
Sunday Independent, June 9 1996.
At the 1989 Grammy Awards
in Los Angeles with Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad,
nominated for a 'Rock Vocal Performer, Female' Grammy
performs live and meets the stars.
Fresh
magazine, April 1989.
Dury's
reasons to be cheerful
BP
Fallon meets up with his old pal Ian Dury and talks
about rock'n'roll, movies, polio, UNICEF... and cancer.
The Sunday Independent, September 20 1998.
An
excerpt by BP Fallon from the book My Generation: Rock
'n' Roll, An Imperfect History
"You
meet Johnny in 1972 in the after midnight of a dentist's
surgery in Harlem. He's a flash peacock in rags of
glitter, platform boots and a jet-black plumage of shoulder-length
backcombed hair as if a buzzard has been nesting
on his head. On-stage upstairs at Max's his streetwise
Italian face pouts as he poses, a cross between Keef
Richard
and an urban subterranean gutter glam outlaw. A punk.
Plus of course Johnny plays the bestest, most exciting,
powerful vicious guitar in town." Click
here for the complete
text plus photographs of Johnny Thunders in Dublin.
The
Great Boyzone Cigarette Controversy
An excerpt from BP Fallon's book boyzone go east!
BP Fallon's Q & A sessions with U2
BP
takes Bono and Edge and Adam and Larry aside one by
one and asks them the same questions, without them
knowing how the others have answered.
These texts formed the bulk of both the Zoo
TV and Zooropa
tour programmes for 1992 and 1993.
BP
Fallon remembers Joey Ramone
"I'm
sorry to have to tell you that the Mayor Of The East
Village Joey Ramone died this afternoon.
He died from lymphatic cancer. His mum Charlotte said
he was listening to U2's In A Little While in his room
at New York Presbyterian Hospital when he died. 'Just
as the song finished, Joey finished,' Charlotte said.
He was 49." Click
here for the complete text
plus photographs.
The
Irish Times, April 24 2001.
By
George by BP Fallon
All
things must pass - George Harrison 1943 - 2001
BP Fallon bumped into George Harrison at a Bob Dylan
concert in London [as one does]. Autumn '87 and eighteen
years earlier George had been one of bp's four bosses
at The Beatles' record label Apple Records. So before
getting up on stage for a twang and a warble with Bob
on Rainy Day Women#12 & 35 ["Ev'rybody must get
stoned"], George arranged to meet up with bp again in
three days time. There in Knightsbridge, George talked
frankly about everything from the break-up of The Beatles
to their adventures with drugs, from the murder of John
Lennon and to his own attitude towards life and death
and how he'd like to be remembered. This article was
first published in The Sunday Tribune on 18 October
1987. It is presented here in memory of George Harrison,
Derek Taylor, John Lennon and Mal Evans.
"Bless us who are still alive, Bless us who are still
in heaven."
The Sunday Tribune 18 October 1987
BP
Fallon remembers Dee Dee Ramone
"If you see Dee Dee, please give him
my love"
Hot Press 7 June 2002
Articles,
excerpts from books and photography © BP Fallon
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