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"Influential BBC Radio one DJ John Peel is known to have repeatedly stated "Teenage Kicks" to be his all-time favourite song, from 1978 until his death in 2004. When he first played the song on his show on 25 September, he played the song twice (something he had never previously done). Peel also...

Phil Lynott was actually sacked by the lead singer of Skid Row, Brush Shiels in the late sixties. They remained on good terms and by Lynott's admission Shiels taught him to play the base guitar. Phil went on to form the band Orphanage with Brian Downey which evolved into Thin Lizzy.

I was in a technical college in Dublin in the early eighties and former Thin Lizzy member Eric Bell was in a band called skid Row at the time. They had a Friday night residency in The Baggot Inn and we went there very often. We used to meet Bell regularly, usually along Grafton Street and he...

Thirty years ago today since the untimely death of guitar legend Rory Gallagher

Are there any issues that aren't tricky with the ladies. Some more so than others Mabel :eek:

Must be The Flag and it's Snag so.

An idiot obviously ;) ️

The Treasure of the Deep was one. It was sung a few times. I think The Day of the Welsh Ferret was another. I had a little help with that one;)

I love Kate:03:

I still have a landline, part of my fibre broadband connection package. It's almost the same cost with or without the phone which I use only very occasionally.