Ireland
Eoghan Lyng is the author of "U2: Every Album, Every Song." He is currently working on a follow up book, and would like to show you a selection of his rock interviews:
Eoghan Lyng looks back at the recording of "All Things Must Pass" in this bonus to our 50th anniversary coverage of the George Harrison album. You can find much more about "All Things Must Pass" in Beatlefan #247. ... Though commonly disparaged by Beatles fans and Beatles themselves, especially Paul McCartney, "Let It Be" remains...
the_title();?> Eoghan Lyng interviews Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, the two documentarists who registered Terry Gilliam's very personal and Quixotic quest during the completion of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Chronicling American-born British filmmaker Terry Gilliam's 30-year crusade to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), directors Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe demonstrate a director every bit as infallible as the character that captured his creative muse for so long.
In what starts off like a scene from Ballykissangel, a man and a woman meet to discuss their visions of an Ireland untroubled by past, promise or papacy. The only difference is, there's no hunky priest to mediate the conversation, and I doubt Imelda May is especially interested in discussing the secular within her spiritual oeuvre.
Exploding in the 1980s, Andrew Roachford's 'Cuddly Toy' rocketed from the CBS Recording Studios to the upper echelon of the fiery Billboard Hot 100. With its pounding hook, jaunty chorus and colossal vocal sound, the song still remains a rock radio mainstay, accruing fans as diverse as the louche Alan Partridge to the dynamic Beverley Knight.
Sophia Lillis’ newest project is the Alan Ball (Six Feet Under) film, Uncle Frank, in which she stars with Paul Bettany. This edgy film is set in the 1970s and was a big hit earlier this year at Sundance. It will be released on Nov. 25th via Amazon Studios.
Eric Stewart discusses many of the varying parts of his musical trajectory, including writing with Lol Creme and Paul McCartney
By 2008, Oasis, a group that used every hackneyed Beatle reference outside of Revolution 9, had broken up a decade too late. How very different in 1994 with the onset of Definitely Maybe, a powerful punching record steeped in the very best of rock n'roll, a format continued on two exhilarating follow-ups.
On its 40th Anniversary, Eoghan Lyng talks to the films director, Franc Roddam Quadropohenia the film that put a 'Q' into Classic British film titles will be 40 years old in a few months. Everything that needs to be said about the film has probably already been said. Until now!