REWRITING RORY

Rewriting Rory

Shining a positive light on the later years of Rory Gallagher’s career

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Amid all the madness over the last few days, I've somehow managed to carve out a bit of time to put together a little review of the forthcoming Gallagher's Guitars book. You can check it out at the link in my story! Thanks a million to @irishrockmuseum for making me so welcome yesterday. An absolute pleasure to sign your copies of Rory Gallagher: The Later Years and get a private tour of the Rory collection 😍 Dublin, you've been good to me ❤️ 'Till the next time! What a fantastic day it's been today at Croke Park. It was such a pleasure to put together this application. So very well deserved. Delighted that Dónal now joins our OU family ❤️ Will write up more on this for RR in the weeks to come 😁 On this day in 1991, Rory played at the Roxy in Hollywood. Slash joined Rory on stage for an extended encore of ‘Bullfrog Blues’, which included a “terrific” rendition of Chuck Berry’s ‘Nadine’ and “Little Queenie”. According to Bill Holdship of Bay Area Music magazine, Rory ultimately came out on top and “outclassed” the young talent of Slash. Spectators were in agreement that it was Rory’s night and perhaps he himself felt it too because he left the show with “a big grin that reached everybody in the room.” Rory’s US tour hit Pepper’s in Huntington Beach, California on this day in 1991. This was the second date on Rory's 1991 US tour - his first time back in the country since 1985. As promised, Part 2 of this special birthday blog post has just gone live! 2 March is always a bittersweet day for me - a day to celebrate the birth of my hero, Rory, but also a day marked with sadness knowing he's no longer here to share it. Some great photos of Rory with Christy Moore and Mary Coughlan at the Hot Press Awards at the Waterfront in Dublin on this day in 1988, where he picked up Best Album for Defender. Rory also jammed with the houseband Hank Halfhead and the Rambling Turkeys, playing ‘Honky Tonk Woman’, ‘Close up the Honkytonks’, ‘Lost Highway’, ‘My Baby She Worships Me’ and ‘Hey Good Lookin’’ together. This wonderful photo of Rory with Gwyn Ashton was taken at The Old Lion Hotel in North Adelaide on this day in 1991, where Gwyn opened for Rory. On this day in 1985, Rory was interviewed and performed ‘I Can't Be Satisfied’ on the popular UK music show Whistle Test. It was part of a segment by presenter Andy Kershaw on whether "there is some kind of future for the blues in 1985." Rory's answer is optimistic, stating that “you get little peaks [of interest] now and then” and that once “all this hi-tech synthesiser carry-on” starts to cool down, there might be room for it again. He also notes that blues fans are always there, but the problem is the “radio people” who do not programme blues music as they think it is no longer “fashionable. A lovely photo of Rory on stage at the Mielparque Hall in Tokyo on this day in 1991. This concert has been nicknamed “Rory’s First Live & Last Live in Japan” by Japanese fans due to a curious bit of trivia: the first concert that Rory ever played in Japan (23rd January 1974) was at the same venue (formerly called Shiba Yubin Hokin Hall). A wonderful photo of Rory on stage at the Ulster Hall, Belfast on this day in 1988. Rory received a standing ovation after every song, and the cheers from the crowd were so loud during Out on the Western Plain that he even had to start up the song again!

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