There is a time
Duhan, Johnny2001
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This is the vivid inside story of one man's journey into song. It begins in Limerick with his mother's breakdown, an event that ended his childhood. A close uncle takes him to the carnival and shows him that the law of gravity can be turned on its head. Then his uncle is jailed for drunken disorder and petty theft, and the world grows heavy again. Adolescent tension is channelled into pop music and angry games with friends at Dino's Cafe. At fourteen he sets out for Dublin and a Rolling Stones concert, and winds up in a doss house, but he is set on a wavering path to the bright lights. A band is formed, a friend lost, a steady job thrown back in his father's teeth. On the road like 1960s Don Quixote - "my lance a guitar, my horsepower a transit van" - he goes in search of fame and the girl. Still in his teens, he becomes one of the original Irish pop stars, fronting a band of innocents called Granny's Intentions. But his journey turns out to be a bug-infested, drug-ingested odyssey leading to betrayal and a cul-de-sac.
Main title:
There is a time / Johnny Duhan.
Author:
Imprint:
Dingle : Brandon, 2001.
Collation:
243 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
0863222838 (hardback)
Dewey class:
784.5
Language:
English
BRN:
974516