BP Fallon Rock’n’Roll Genie ~ 4 page feature in Sunday Independent

Sunday Independent Magazine Sunday July 28th 2013 by Barry Egan, who writes:

BP Fallon’s job used to be testing marijuana for The Beatles. He was the ‘visionary imp’ aboard Led Zeppelin’s orgiastic Starship. He’s worked with U2, T.Rex, Jack White and pretty much everyone who is anyone during his amazing epic 50 year career in rock music. Now, at the ripe young age of 66, Bono’s ‘rock’n’roll creature’ has formed his own band and released his debut album. He’s doing it backwards, he tells Barry Egan, and that’s perfect.

An appointment with his shamanic majesty… is a voyage into the mystic. If BP has a philosophy, it’s that life is all an adventure and experiment.

(To read this excellent piece, click on links below then click on the new page to enlarge):

Page 1 Rock’n’Roll Genie – “When my father in Dublin saw it he apparently nearly fell off his chair he was so proud. His son on TV with a Beatle, y’know?”

Page 2 BP Fallon full-page portrait by Brian Birzer

Page 3 “I’m not ready to stand naked on the top of a mountain in the Himalayas chanting – I need the benign wickedness of Babylon some more”

Page 4 What people – living or dead – would you have at your dream dinner party? “Jesus. Gandhi. Elvis. The Blessed Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene. Tinker Bell and Alice. I’d like to write a song with (late blues singer) Willie Dixon. Most everyone else, I’ve already met”

Additional photography

BP Fallon & Cara Delevingne dance by Hunter Richards

BP Fallon & The Bandits – here Nigel Harrison, Aaron Lee Tasjan, BPF, Barrie Cadogan, Scott Asheton & Clem Burke – by Christopher Durst

John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band – John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Beatles tour manager Mal Evans & BP Fallon, London 1970 by Ron Howard/ Redferns

Robert Plant & BP Fallon, Chicago 1973 by Cori Hinton

Bandits – Nigel Harrison (bass guitar), BPF (vocals), Aaron Lee Tasjan (guitar/piano) & Clem Burke (drums) – album back cover photograph by Radek

“Sometimes it is what it is
And sometimes it is what you make it”
– from Kill Me Till I Crawl from the BP Fallon & The Bandits album ‘Still Legal’
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