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RORY GALLAGHER - LIVE HAMMERSMITH ODEON (1979) (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 2 broadcast: 3rd May 2026
Guitar legend Rory Gallagher performing live at Hammersmith Odeon in 1979. Featuring Shin Kicker, Do You Read Me, Shadow Play, Brute Force And Ignorance, Out On The Western Plain and Tattoo'd Lady.
Rory Gallagher - Shin Kicker
Rory Gallagher - Do You Read Me
Rory Gallagher - Off The Handle
Rory Gallagher - Brute Force And Ignorance
Rory Gallagher - Secret Agent
Rory Gallagher - Out On The Western Plain
Rory Gallagher - Going To My Home Town
Rory Gallagher - Shadow Play
Rory Gallagher - Tattoo'd Lady
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 29th September 2016
Rory Gallagher - Could've Had Religion (Radio 1 Session)
Rory Gallagher - Cuckoo (Radio 1 Session)
Rory Gallagher - Feel So Bad (Radio 1 Session)
Rory Gallagher - Messin' With The Kid (Radio 1 Session)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 15th March 2016
A programme first broadcast in 2005 in which the late Gary Moore paid tribute to Rory Gallagher, the talented Irish blues-rock guitarist, singer and songwriter who died in 1995 aged just 47.
Contributors include Queen guitarist Brian May, who reveals how he copied Rory's guitar sound; The Smiths' guitarist Johnny Marr who says he took a day off school to play along with one of Rory's albums - and reveals how you can hear traces of Rory's influence even in some of The Smiths songs; English folk giant Martin Carthy, who reveals how he helped talk Rory through a period of stage fright; Bass player Jack Bruce and ex-Dubliners singer Ronnie Drew.
Rory's brother Donal - who worked alongside him throughout his life - talks movingly of their early days in Ballyshannon and then Cork, of Rory's life on the road and in the studio, and then of the health problems that lead to the need for a liver transplant in 1995.
Also heard are old friends from Cork and the musicians he played with - John Wilson from Taste and Gerry McEvoy and Lou Martin from his later bands.
This programme contains rarely-heard archive recordings and was first broadcast in April 2005, ten years after Rory's death.
Rory Gallagher - Cradle Rock [RCA]
Rory Gallagher - Goin' To My Hometown [Polydor]
Taste - Take It Easy Baby
The Taste - What's Going On [Polydor]
Taste - On The Boards
The Taste - I Feel So Good [Polydor]
Muddy Waters - Young Fashioned Ways [Proper]
Rory Gallagher - Wave Myself Goodbye [BMG]
Rory Gallagher - Messin' With The Kid [Castle]
Rory Gallagher - Unmilitary Two-Step [Castle]
Rory Gallagher - In Your Town [Capo]
The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make [WEA]
The Taste - Morning Sun Mother [Polydor]
Queen - Tie Your Mother Down [EMI]
Rory Gallagher - Calling Card [RCA]
Rory Gallagher - Barley And Grape Rag [Capo]