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August 8 2013

BP Fallon & The Bandits – The War To Fight For Love (official video)

BP Fallon & The Bandits, Magic, Music, Rock'n'Roll, Still Legal

BP Fallon & The Bandits – The War To Fight For Love (official video) “A mantric poetic song-spiel with ’70s NYC blood ties, not least because The Bandits feature Blondie’s classic rhythm section” – Uncut Magazine on ‘The War To Fight For Love’ which is also available on the free CD with the August edition of Uncut (The Band on the cover) Filmed by DeadWeatherDenver Edited by Chase Bradburn “Nobody’s alone/We’re all in this together…” The War To Fight For Love video freezeframes THE WAR TO FIGHT FOR LOVE Lyrics – BP Fallon Music – BP Fallon/Aaron Lee Tasjan/Nigel Harrison/Clem […]

August 2 2013

BP Fallon & The Bandits – The Hot Press Interview

BP Fallon & The Bandits, Magic, Music, Rock'n'Roll, Still Legal

BP Fallon & The Bandits in the new issue of Hot Press Read Edwin McFee’s feature in Hot Press here: ‘Still Legal’ is centred around love, lust, mutual infidelity, drugs, models and everyone from Jesus and Edie Sedgwick to Dylan and Columbus – “Normal New York stuff” says Fallon… “If the man with the golden cigar makes us an offer we can’t diffuse, we can talk… We wouldn’t say no to doing some Bandits shows with The Strypes, who we love” (click on above link then click on the new page to enlarge) Photo in Hot Press of live Bandits […]

July 28 2013

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

BP Fallon & The Bandits, Magic, Music, Rock'n'Roll, Still Legal, Verbal

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 […]

July 15 2013

The Union ~ The Business Behind Getting High ~ Full Movie

Magic, Music, Rock'n'Roll

The Union: The Business Behind Getting High – Full Movie – High Quality (1:44:11) BP Fallon pops up in the must-see documentary The Union: The Business Behind Getting High. The documentary is so bold as to suggest that drugs were used by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin – plus inhalers Steve Jobs, Ted Turner, Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson – and in the quick clip of Zeppelin in 1973, BP is filmed gamboling on Led Zeppelin’s private jetliner Starship while Robert Plant pretends to read a book. To oversimplify – the movie says that hemp is good […]

June 4 2013

BP Fallon gets his kicks with Ray Wylie Hubbard at the oldest dancehall in Texas

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

BP Fallon getting his kicks with Ray Wylie Hubbard by Weston McGowen BP Fallon joined Ray Wylie Hubbard and his band for an historic show at Gruene Hall – the oldest dancehall in Texas, in the little town of Gruene. Following in the rockin’ footsteps of Jerry Lee Lewis and Bo Diddley and with Merle Haggard billed to play there shortly, our Mr Fallon joined Texas legend Ray Wylie Hubbard and his ace combo for a wild rampage through ‘I Believe In Elvis Presley’ with the line “I believe in marijuana” sung to the armed sheriff at the side of […]