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Boy George telling me to tell Bono that if he still hadn't found what he was looking for, he should look behind the drum kit, was just a quip. But the quote made it around the world thanks to MTV news. It's just a bit of fun. We talked abut it years later

Tommy Tiernan is now an interviewer who aspires to do in-depth interviews on TV. I commend his aspiration.

Here is part of an in-depth interview he did with me. 

Am I kidding about any of this? 

You decide!

Imagine falling love with a song when you are 16, the, later in life meeting the guy who sang it and who asks yo uto write his life story! This is a tiny section from the chapter about Macarthur Park, from my book Richard Harris: Raising Hell and Reaching for Heaven.  

Its that time of year again. I've loved Elvis's Christmas album since I was a kid. That;s why it was such a joy to interview in LA in 2004, the writers of its opening track, Santa Claus Is Back in Town. 

This was recorded in my kitchen at home, hence the echo. I love getting on tape the memories of someone like Brush about "Philo" or anything else. 

I grew up listening to my Dad's Sinatra LPs, and was an Elvis fan, so it was surreal to have this chat on the phone with Nancy. Even more so to see we agreed about Elvis's gospel songs

This time thirty years ago, Shane and I sat in the Shelbourne Hotel and had this chat. We also, as he says, met each other a lot while drinking late at night in clubs in Dublin. Shane is gone. I'm reposting this to try in my small way to ensure he is not forgotten  

A song loved by millions of people, still, and by me since it was released and because I knew a woman like its subect. It was a delight to talk with its creator, a lovely guy.

As a kid I argued against anyone who said Elvis used drugs. But later i life I got to interview the likes of Tom Jones and got to know more about Elvis's use of drugs. 

I always loved Taylor's music and was delighted that he turned out to be such a provocative thinker and interviewee. 

Imagine the scene. It's a morning after the Grammy Awards show, I'm sitting in Frank Zappa's studio in LA, watching Tom Jones record with The Chieftains. Zappa, who rarely gives interviews, is told that U2 are more appreciated in Ireland than The Chieftains, gets angry, and gives me one of his rare interviews. It was also one of his last 

Gray was at the peak of his popularity in Ireland when we did this interview in his home. He talks with great passion about Dylan, Morrison and Springsteen. It's a team of solicitors! Kidding

I love celebrating the music of the Irish in particular, because I am a proud 'Paddy"! Here I am in 2004 discussing some Irish great with Damien Dempsey.

We all remember the music that first moved us. I did a series of interviews with musicians about just that. This is a chat I had with Mr Elliot, from Def Leppard.

I bought that Sinatra album when it was released. It has been reissued this month. It isn't Sinatra at his best vocally, but he's still bnuiriong it up and the band is fantastic, including Benson

I have many reasons for reposting the podcast from The Joe Jackson Archive. 

One is that it has Dermot, a man I very much admired, angry at the fact that he was driven out of his homeland and ours in order to make Father Ted. 

Sometimes, a country scatters its finest to the furthest shores. 

A relative of mine died from a heroin overdose. My Dad died addicted to drugs. Being anti-drugs in the Irish rock music scene worked against me for years. I don't care.

Drug use is on the rise again, in Ireland, and elsewhere

Christy's story is more relevant than ever

I became an interviewer to track down and talk with my music heroes. Kris Kristofferson was one of them. He influenced me greatly. This is my tribute to one of the greatest songwriters in any genre, who died yesterday. Kris R.I.P. 

As part of a radio interview we did in his recording studio, Diamond and I talked about the roots of one of his most resonant songs, I Am; I Said.  He even joked about the talking chair! 

I like reposting this to remind people of Sinead's love of music. When all the the stories are forgotten about Sinead, her music will be remembered. In this podcasts she talks about her early influences

I am reposting this to go with the upcoming movie. I remember Bono telling me in 1994, 'I discovered Aznavour." I was too cool to tell him, so did I, 20 years earlier!

I interviewed Flatley once, he wasn't happy with the interview. So?

I interviewed Jean twice. She was.

Here is the backstory of their clash.

My final interview with Richard took place in the Savoy Hotel in London a year before he died. It lasted nine hours, and forms part of my book, Richard Harris: Raising Hell and Reaching for Heaven. 

This is a fun story

It wold have been inappropriate of me to ask Scott Walker if he was gay. This is as close as we came to discussing the subject

As a child I loved The Monkees TV show, It was a delight to interview Mickey and it shows! Great chat about, among other things, the 'postmodern deconstruction of The Monkees' that was the movie Head!

Let's go back to the glory days with Oasis. Here, in an interview we did in Dublin the morning after an Oasis gig I attended, Noel discusses gigs, fans, songs and his music heroes such as John Lennon and Burt Bacharach. It fades at his claim,'I am a romantic" which we will discuss in our next podcast!" Is he? 

During the 1970s, I discovered those 1960s Walker recordings of Brel's songs. In the 1990s we got to talk about them 

Summer re-run of the fun, and fractious encounters I had with my fellow Irishman, the moody Van Morrison

Broadcasters are rarely remembered after they die. Larry Gogan should not be forgotten. He brought great joy in generations of Irish radio listeners. 

k.d. one of the great singers, talks about here heroes Joni Mitchell, Roy Orbison and Leonard Cohen. Four amazing talents 

I am the Elvis fan who, on the day he died felt disillusioned but the lies being told about Elvis and the lies he told about himself. 

I went in search of the truth about the King and interviewed many who knew him

I am the Elvis fan who, on the day he died felt disillusioned but the lies being told about Elvis and the lies he told about himself. 

I went in search of the truth about the King and interviewed many who knew him

I am the Elvis fan who, on the day he died felt disillusioned but the lies being told about Elvis and the lies he told about himself. 

I went in search of the truth about the King and interviewed many who knew him

U2 tried to "mincemeat" Dunphy in terms of aspects of his book he once told me.

If they did, why, one wonders?

A clip from one of the four interviews I did with Tori that make up my Ebook, Tori Amos Soul Searching and Uncensored. 

What she says about gun control still applies

I made a radio documentary about Doris Day and it changed a former girlfriend's opinion of the woman in an hour.

I do think it is time for a rethink abiut the music, movies, persona and person that was DD

I posted this podcast when Christine died. It's always good to listen to her in conversation. It was a joy for me to get to talk with her. 

I dug out our 1992 cassette tape and made this podcast within a half- hour of hearing that Edna O' Brien has died. Id I sound sad in the intro. I was. 

Edna O' Brien Rest in Peace. 

I was around when the Beatles broke through, As an Elvis fan I wasn't supposed to like them but as soon as I heard You Can't Do That' I became a fan of at least Lennon. Then I grew to love The Beatles, whose songs formed the soundtrack of my life as pre-teen and teenager. So, meeting George Martin was a total joy

I am writing a memoir, so new podcasts are few. But fellow Bowie fans might enjoy this chat I had on Irish radio in 1997

This is one of the few occasions Neil talked in public about the Mafia.

His management weren't impressed that he did. Neil told me he didn't mind. 

I am reposting this because in five days it will be a year since we lost Sinead. 

In 2000 she told me the song she'd want played at her funeral.

R.I.P. Sinead O'Connor 

I posted this when the movie was released. I stand over all my criticisms of Luhrmann who turned Elvis's life story into, he said "the love story between Parker and Presley" and made him a male Judy Garland because Baz loves Judy. The mov ie is a tissue of lies, to quote Shakespeare. 

This is the section of a tape I used for my Harris biography, Richard Harris Raising Hell and Reaching for Heaven. What he says may upset some actors, including those he criticises but I was one of the few journalists to whom Harris told the truth so here it is! Enjoy

At the time of this interview Roy Carr a British journalist claimed that Elvis was discovered at Sun Records because he peddled his moter's diet pills to musicians. Sam told me that was crap!

Mike was my mentor in RTE, and we stepped on a lot of toes with this interview.

But neither of us ever worked in the PR business!

Enjoy

That was the headline my Billy Joel interview in an Irish newspaper. We did the interview backstage at Madison Square Garden, I'd never met the guy, but he turned out to be sincere and truthful and free from bs

During our first interview in 1987, Boy Georege said to me, "If you see Bono and he still hasn't found what he's looking for, tell hm to look behind the drum kit" at U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. It was a bit of a laugh. For this Irish Times interview we returned to the subject and much more

I first heard this catchy song when I was a child, so it was a joy to finally meet and talk with tis writer. 

Jon Bon Jovi talking about AIDS, gangs, rock 'n' roll and apologising for his insulting use on stage of the word "faggots." Repost