Rory Gallagher : The BBC Collection (3LP Set)

The Best of Rory Gallagher at the BBC is a collection of tracks taken from Rory Gallaghers The BBC Collection

These releases celebrate the importance of the artist Rory Gallagher, who was possibly the mostrecorded musician of the 1970s by the BBC.

(Tore Down) That was the first song I ever heard playedIts a BBC recording of Rory Gallagher playing at the Paris Theatre in London in July 1972. And I was in the audience, aged 15, and those opening bars were enough to make me realise that this was something I wanted to do again and again Tore Down was my introduction to live, loud, amplified blues and when Gallagher had finished, my 15-year-old self could not contain his excitement. He ran down to the front to shake Rorys handWhen the BBC did eventually broadcast the concert, I taped it by leaning the microphone from my clunky cassette recorder against the speaker of our old transistor radio and I listened to that tape over and over again Nick