QuoteNot a fan of the genre, but himself and the Clancy's were true masters of it, and rightly legends.Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie
R.I.P.
From RTE
R.I.P. TommyAcclaimed folk musician and singer Tommy Makem has died at his home in Dover, New Hampshire in the US.
He was aged 74 and had been suffering from lung cancer
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Not a fan of the genre, but himself and the Clancy's were true masters of it, and rightly legends.
R.I.P.
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
Help me, Arthur Murphy, you're my only hope!
Aw. My dad knew him well from tours overlapping in the 70's & will be gutted when he hears this. I myself met him in the late 80's while I was doing my Junior Reporter bit for our School Magazine. I was waiting to Interview Stefan Denis (yes he of Neighbours & dodgy pop fame) and Tommy was stayin in the hotel where the interview was happening. I chatted with him & my Photographer took a pic of me with him. A total gentleman. RIP Tommy.
your photographer?
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
True pioneers for Irish folk music, a real loss
RIP Tommy
Yeah I actually talked a proffesional photographer mate of my dads into coming to take photos of Stefan Dennis & I. Still have them. Boy did I look cute!
Hard to believe but Bob Dylan used to open for Makem & The Clancy Brothers, way back when.
I can't stop, I can't start
It holds me together while it tears me apart
RIP tommy LEGEND
Was he crazy!! Yeah , in a very special way , an Irishman.
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.
"Isn't it grand, boys, to be bloody well dead?"
I hope you're singing that above in heaven just now. God rest you Tommy, you gave inspiration to many that followed.
Semper in faecibus sole profundum variat
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