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Post by Wynn Chester on Oct 12, 2021 14:43:48 GMT
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Post by jjmolloy on Oct 14, 2021 0:10:24 GMT
A huge figure in Irish music history, Chieftains played to packed houses throughout the world and recorded with Jagger, McCartney and Van Morrison among others. Best known to a wider audience perhaps for the haunting soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece Barry Lyndon (1975)
Another point of interest is that he was a driving force behind Claddagh Records, which promoted and recorded Irish trad musicians as that scene took off in the 1960s and early 1970s. Claddagh was bankrolled by the Hon. Garech Browne, a member of the Guinness family (yes THAT one) Browne lived it large in huge style at Luggala Castle in Wicklow and hosted rock stars and the cultural glitterati in his heyday. Garech spent and squandered so many millions throughout on the high life that even the Guinness' were fed up of it and curtailed the money supply at times. Claddagh were based in Parkgate St, Dublin, just across from the Guinness brewery. Such was the renewed interest in Irish culture at the time that just about every Irish child born in that era was given a traditional Irish name, my own siblings and myself being no exception.
Garech's brother was the Hon. Tara Browne, who as I'm sure we ALL know was a close friend of Lennon and McCartney. Tara died when he crashed his E-type in Chelsea at age 21 and inspired Lennon to write A Day In The Life.
RIP Paddy.
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Post by brinylonshirt on Oct 16, 2021 17:55:02 GMT
An incredible life in music. RIP Paddy Maloney.
PS. The Chieftains 2nd, 3rd and 4th albums are the finest Irish traditional music ever recorded!
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Post by McCann on Oct 17, 2021 14:37:03 GMT
I must check some of those albums out. I see Paddy was buried in Glendalough on Friday. That's a special location for the final journey.
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