In Ireland, rock music essentially began with the so-called “showbands” in the early-’60s. Individual pioneers like Van Morrison, Henry McCullough of Wings and the Joe Cocker‘s Grease Band and the ...

The 1960s didn’t just change rock music—they practically invented the modern version of it. In a single decade, rock evolved from simple three-chord tunes into something bigger, louder, stranger, and ...

Into the late-'70s and early-'80s, Irish rock bands were breaking through in the U.K., America and across the world. They could become platinum-selling superstars without pulling up their roots. This ...