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Eoghan Lyng


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A Life in Music (2021)

Eoghan Lyng - A Life in Music

In her series, 'A Life in Music', in which she chats to Pennyblackmusic writers about how music has affected and influenced them, Cila Warncke speaks to our Irish writer Eoghan Lyng.


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Interviews

Interview Chris Spedding - Interview

Top session guitarist Chris Spedding talks to Eoghan Lyng about working with The Sex Pistols, Paul McCartney, Roxy Music and The Wombles., and his band Sharks' recent film documentary, 'Not a Rock-Doc: A Shark's Tail'.


Interview Adrian Gurvitz - Interview

60's guitar legend Adrian Gurvitz talks to Eoghan Lyng about his new album 'Blood,, Sweat & Years' and working with Ginger Baker in Baker-Gurvitz Army.


Interview Anthony Phillips - Interview

Founder member of Genesis, guitarist Anthony Phillips chats to Eoghan Lyng about his long, eclectic solo career and recent reissue of 1970s works.


interview Red Eye Pariah - interview

Rising Northern Irish band Red Eye Pariah talk to Eoghan Lyng about their unusual influences, touring and eventual plans for an album.


Interview Steve Hackett - Interview

Prog guitar legend Steve Hackett talks to Eoghan Lyng about his new album ‘The Circus and the Nightwhale’ and his years with Genesis,


Interview Sharks - Interview

Sharks’ frontman and 70’s punk influence Steve ‘Snips’ Parsons talks to Eoghan Lyng about their new film documentary, ‘Not A Rock Doc (A Shark’s Tale)’.


Interview Robert Davi - Interview

Actor Robert Davi speaks to Eoghan Lyng about his other career as a singer and playing a Bond villain in ‘Licence to Kill’.


Interview Jeff Moller - Interview

American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Moller talks to Eoghan Lyng about his classic rock-inspired debut album, ‘Sigh Baby’.


Interview Tim Arnold - Interview

Acclaimed solo artist Tim Arnold talks to Eoghan Lyng about his recent diagnosis of autism, and his new album 'Super Connected', which seven years in the making, reflects critically on technology.


Interview Michael Lindsay Hogg - Interview

Eoghan Lyng talks to filmmaker and director Michael Lindsay-Hogg about his work on The Beatles' 'Let It Be', 'Brideshead Rvisited' and The Rolling Stones' 'Rock and Roll Circus'.


Interview Demian Dorelli - Interview

Eoghan Lyng chats to Nick Drake-influenced pianist Demian Dorelli about his critically acclaimed new album, 'My Window'.


Interview Harvey Lisberg - Interview

Legendary rock manager Harvey Lisberg chats to Eoghan Lyng about is new memoirs 'I'm Into Something Good' and working with 10cc, Herman's Hermits and The Yardbirds.


Interview Hugh Cornwell - Interview

Ex-Stranglers singer/guitarist Hugh Cornwell chats to Eoghan Lyng about his recent ‘Moments Of Madness’ LP and upcoming UK and Ireland shows.


Interview with Dave Wakeling Beat - Interview with Dave Wakeling

Frontman Dave Wakeling talks to Eoghan Lyng about The Beat's political as well as his musical influences and his group's forthcoming British tour.


Interview Robyn Hitchcock - Interview

Singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock talks to Eoghan Lyng about his new album 'Shufflemania!' and how both The Beatles and XTC have influenced his work.


Interview Hamish Stuart - Interview

Guitarist to the stars - and Ringo Starr - Hamish Stuart brightens Eoghan Lyng’s night with some great anecdotes from the rock era.


Interview Chris Connelly - Interview

Edinburgh-born but now Chicago-based singer-songwriter Chris Connelly talks to Eoghan Lyng about his new concept album 'Eulogy to Christa', which is about the life of Velvet Underground singer Nico.


Interview Squeeze - Interview

Squeeze guitarist Glenn Tilbrook talks to Eoghan Lyng about his long songwriting partnership with Chris Difford and the band’s new ‘Food For Thought’ EP.


Interview with Jacknife Lee Telefis - Interview with Jacknife Lee

Eoghan Lyng speaks to Jacknife Lee about Telefis’s second and final album Telefís A Do’, collaborating on it with Echo and the Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant and Microdisney’s Sean O’Hagan, and his friendship with his late bandmate Cathal Coughlan.


Interview Cathal Coughlan - Interview

Former Microdisney and Fatima Mansions frontman Cathal Coughlan talks to Eoghan Lyng about his new project Telefis and album with Jackknife Lee, political history, musical history and more.


Profiles

Profile Nico - Profile

Eoghan Lyng examines the late 60's/early 70's career of Nico and the recent reissue of her two albums. 'The Marble Index' and 'Desertshore'.


Backstage Pass Harvey Lee - Backstage Pass

Eoghan Lyng enjoys entrepreneur Harvey Lee's book about his business experiences in rock.


Livin Just To Find Emotion: Journey and the Story of American Rock, David Hamilton Golland - Livin Just To Find Emotion: Journey and the Story of American Rock,

Eoghan Lyng reflects on a new book by David Hamilton Golland about piano balladeering 1970's/1980's American rock band Journey


Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans Kenneth Womack - Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans

Eoghan Lyng assesses Kenneth Womack's latest book about Beatles road manager Mal Evans.


Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra Dan Callahan - Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra

Eoghan Lyng reflects on Dan Callahan’s ambitious new book about Bing Crosby and some of the other major artists of the 1940 and 1950s.


Pleased Various - Pleased

Eoghan Lyng is impressed by 'Pleased', a new anthology of short stories, each of which have been inspired by The Beatles' 'Please Please Me'.


Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 Luca Perasi - Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989

Eoghan Lyng profiles Italian author Luca Perasi's impeccably researched book on the stories behind Paul McCartney's songs.


Live

Olympia Theatre, Dublin, 16/3/2024 Liam Gallagher and John Squire - Olympia Theatre, Dublin, 16/3/2024

Eoghan Lyng enjoys a brief but versatile set from Liam Gallagher and John Squire at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin.


Vicar Street,, Dublin, 25/10/2023 Squid - Vicar Street,, Dublin, 25/10/2023

Eoghan Lyng enjoys Squid’s unusual brand of prog at Vicar Street in Dublin.


Albums

The Fraternal Order Of The All - Greetings From Planet Love Andrew Gold - The Fraternal Order Of The All - Greetings From Planet Love

Eoghan Lyng examines classic singer-songwriter Andrew Gold’s recently reissued 1997 psychedelic album, ‘The Fraternal Order Of The All - Greetings From Planet Love’,


T. Rex 1973: Whatever Happened to the Teenage Dream? T. Rex - T. Rex 1973: Whatever Happened to the Teenage Dream?

In our 'Re:View' section, Eoghan Lyng examines a new four CD box set which assesses T. Rex and Marc Bolan's work in the prolific year of 1973.


All Things Must Pass George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

In the second of two articles Eoghan Lyng finds that George Harrison’s ‘All Things Must Pass’ “is the most thoughtful and fully-realised" of all The Beatles' solo debut albums.


David Gray
White Ladder David Gray - White Ladder

Eoghan Lyng reflects on Irish singer-songwriter David Gray's groundbreaking fourth album 'White Ladder', which has just been re-released in a remastered 20th Anniversary edition.


Features

Freaks Out!: Weirdos, Misfits and Deviants – The Rise and Fall of Righteous Rock ’n’ Roll Luke Haines - Freaks Out!: Weirdos, Misfits and Deviants – The Rise and Fall of Righteous Rock ’n’ Roll

In ‘Raging Pages’ guest reviewer Eoghan Lyng enjoys The Auteurs and Black Box Recorder Luke Haines’ satirical overview of pop in his first book in a decade, ‘Freaks Out!: Weirdos, Misfits and Deviants – The Rise and Fall of Righteous Rock ’n’ Roll'.


1963 Beatles - 1963

In 'Raging Pages' guest reviewer Eoghan Lyng contends that author Dafydd Rees ‘apes the lexicon of the era’ when focusing on the Beatles history in his new book ' The Beatles 1963: A Year in the Life'.


In the 1970's George Harrison - In the 1970's

George Harrison surpassed expectations as a songwriter after initially being regarded as "the quiet Beatle". In her 'Raging Pages' book column Lisa Torem discovers that Eoghan Lyng's new book explores many facets of the British songwriter's career.


Ten Songs That Made Me Love.... Boomtown Rats - Ten Songs That Made Me Love....

Eoghan Lyng selects ten favourites from Dublin pioneers The Boomtown Rats, moving from punk into New Wave, Eighties pop and the recent comeback album


The Image That Made Me Weep Beatles - The Image That Made Me Weep

In 'The Image That Made You Weep', in which our writers write of the personal impact of a photo or image on them, Eoghan Lyng writes of a photo taken at Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach's wedding in 1981.


U2
Every Album, Every Song U2 - Every Album, Every Song

In her 'Raging Pages' book column Lisa Torem examines a comprehensive volume about the work of Irish rockers U2 recently penned by Pennyblackmusic writer Eoghan Lyng


Clash
Ten Songs That Made Me Love Clash - Ten Songs That Made Me Love

Eoghan Lyng selects tracks by punk legends The Clash for this month’s edition of 'Ten Songs That Made Me Love...' Following the band’s progress, the cuts chart the outfit’s progress from London upstarts to their incorporation of many of the musical trends that came to define the 1980s.







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