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January 9 2014

Happy 70th Birthday, Jimmy Page!

James Patrick Page & Bernard Patrick Fallon, West Hollywood 1973 Interviewer: “Is it true Jimmy Page did magic with virgins at midnight?” BP Fallon: “No. There weren’t any”. Jimmy Page, Dublin 1999 by & © BP Fallon RARE LED ZEPPELIN & BP FALLON FILM This NBC Nightly News report of July 31st 1973 suggests that there is a link between organised crime and the US record business, mentioning drug dealing, payola, mob connections and high living – and then reports on Led Zeppelin with rare film of the band and friends on their private plane Starship. “The Shah Of Iran? […]

January 5 2014

BP Fallon – Thoughts On The Everly Brothers Don & Phil

Brown Bread, Magic, Music, Rock'n'Roll, Timeless

Phil Everly (January 19th 1939 – January 3rd 2014) RIP My Auntie Betty, bless her, owned The Headfort Arms Hotel in Kells in County Meath in Ireland. Then – this is 1959 – it was a sort of hunting/shooting/landed gentry crowd who took of the hotel’s hospitality. And this kid home on holidays in Ireland from boarding school in England, this eleven year old boy flush with his first flash of this rock’n’roll thing that was to fuel him all of his life, he discovered in the hotel in his aunt’s private and sedate drawing room a radiogram. This big mahogany lump […]

January 4 2014

Audio – BP Fallon & Dave Fanning on Phil Lynott RIP

Brown Bread, Magic, Music, Rock'n'Roll

Twenty-eight years ago today Phil Lynott died, bless him. He was 36. BP Fallon & Phil Lynott, Malahide Castle Dublin March 1st 1983. Photography by Eve Holmes Here’s a flashback to three years ago – BP Fallon & Dave Fanning talking to Katherine Thomas live on RTE Radio1 Jan 3rd 2011, discussing the life and times of their friend Phil BP Fallon & Dave Fanning on Phil Lynott Phil Lynott August 20th 1949 – January 4th 1986. God bless you, Phil. Cup of tea? BP Fallon & Phil Lynott in Malahide Castle Dublin March 1st 1983. Photography by Eve Holmes […]

January 3 2014

Video – BP Fallon introduces The Strypes Cavan Town Hall Dec 28 2013

Life's A Gas, Magic, Music, Rock'n'Roll, Spoken Word, The Strypes

BP Fallon – I Believe In Elvis Presley – Strypes intro for their homecoming at Cavan Town Hall Jenny McGovern reports in The Anglo Celt: ‘I believe’ “Rock‘n’Roll legend BP Fallon flew from his home in New York to introduce the Strypes, telling the crowd: ‘I believe in County Cavan/ I believe in Town Hall nights/ I believe in Josh and Ross and Pete and Evan/ I believe in The Strypes’”. Read more BP Fallon introducing The Strypes on New Year’s Eve in College Green, Dublin. Photography by Laura Whitmore BP Fallon & Ross Farrelly of The Strypes have a […]

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January 2 2014

Tonight! BP Fallon on The Beatles – ‘Guth’ TG4 9.25pm

BP Fallon, Magic, Music, Rock'n'Roll, Timeless, Verbal

Two people with Irish backgrounds – John Lennon, Phil Spector, members of Stevie Wonder’s band and BP Fallon, Madison Square Gardens, New York City 1972 BP Fallon appears in ‘Guth’ on TG4 tonight at 9.25pm discussing The Beatles. Three of the four Fabs are of Irish descent. BP worked at The Beatles’ Apple Records, appeared as a member of John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band on TV in England and on stage at Madison Square Gardens in New York, worked with Ringo Starr on the Marc Bolan & T.Rex movie ‘Born To Boogie’ and went on the road with […]