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"ELVIS JUST CHANGED THE WHOLE BOOGALOO"

BP Fallon talks about Elvis

BP live on TodayFM's The Last Word with Matt Cooper Aug 16 2007, thirty years to the day Elvis died.

Elvis Aaron Presley Jan 8 1935 - Aug 16 1977. Rest in peace. And thank you.

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<<<bpf.radio>>> Programme 3
BP Fallon's Icons#9: Bob Dylan
<<<bpf.radio>>> proudly presents the complete programme BP Fallon's Icons#9 from the acclaimed eleven-part series broadcast by RTE Radio 1 in 1997 which documented artists ranging from Gram Parsons to James Brown, Hank Williams to The Sex Pistols, Marc Bolan to Howlin' Wolf. "Actually", said BP at the time, "I don't have any icons - these are just cats that I dig". Each programme tells the story of the chosen artist through BP's eyes and ears. Prompted by Luke Kelly of The Dubliners, he first saw Dylan live in 1966 at the Adelphi Cinema in Dublin backed by the un-named Band... he says he hasn't been the same since.
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Bob Dylan in Athens: stills by BPF from One Irish Rover, the 1991 BBC TV documentary on Van Morrison which features Van's fans John Lee Hooker and Bob Dylan in support

This section of bpfallon.com is dedicated to all things audio, drawing as it does from the vast library of BP's radio shows over the years. This is your sonic lounge, your audio afterglow, your smile dial to the church of aural sects.

Our Bits, Blips and Bleeps come largely from The BP Fallon Orchestra, the famous radio programme on RTE Radio 2 that ran from 1982 to 1987 and played a big part in BP being awarded The Jacob's Award For Broadcasting - the Irish equivalent of a Grammy. In it's five years, The BPFO featured revealing chinwags with everyone from George Harrison to Mick Jagger, Spike Milligan to Quentin Crisp, Leonard Cohen to Pete Townsend, Jerry Lee Lewis to The Pogues to Inspector John McGroaty of the Irish Drugs Squad who, on duty at Slane Castle for the Rolling Stones concert, requested "Brown Sugar for my daughter Catriona..."

Currently airing on <<<bpf.radio>>> Programme 2
Joey and Dee Dee Ramone, Primal Scream, John Lennon and Ronnie Drew, Phil Lynott, Robert Plant and Quentin Crisp
Primal Scream's contribution here is the melding of two stoned jingles Bobby Gillespie, Mani and Throb created for BP Fallon's Wang Dang Doodle programmes, while the show's sig tune features John Lennon and Ronnie Drew with Jaime Coon, Anna Sia and Alley Ernst. The Quentin Crisp sample was recorded in New York in 1991 when Mr. Crisp was 82 years young; it has never been broadcast before. Joey Ramone ("on flugelhorn") and Dee Dee Ramone come from The BPFO in 1985, as does Robert Plant. The BPFO in 1982 gives us our cameo by Phil Lynott.
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The Lobsters - BP Fallon and Robert Plant - and Andy Sylvester
sing backing vocals with Melvin's Marauders in The Queen's Head
pub near Kidderminster, 1979
Photo: Claire De La Luna

<<<bpf.radio>>> U2 Exclusive!
These four selections are from Zoo Radio, the one-hour radio show produced and written by BP Fallon and Bill Kates during 1992's global Zoo TV tour and featuring U2, Public Enemy and Lou Reed plus a cast of thousands that includes Elvis, Marilyn, George Bush Snr. and George Clinton. Zoo Radio was broadcast by 600 radio stations in the US, by AFN globally and by the BBC in Britain.

Currently airing on <<<bpf.radio>>> Programme 1
Zoo Radio with Public Enemy and U2
"Hey, Beep, c'mon man, let's in!" Bono tries to blag his way into Zoo Radio, Public Enemy's Flavor Flav raps hard while Chuck D does the beats, we meet the messianic Mirrorball Man and BP asks Bono, Edge, Adam and Larry "How does it feel to be the most glamorous man in the world?" And Bono sings his song for Frank Sinatra, Two Shots Of Happy One Shot Of Sad, on U2's airplane...
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Flavor Flav and Adam Clayton

Bono and Chuck D

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BP Fallon's Wang Dang Doodle sig: sonic design by Kates/Ernst/Boogaloo
music by O'Boogie/Osterberg/Zimmerman/Bleepoboy/RL Burnside
Primal Scream Wang Dang Doodle jingle: sonic design by Aodhán Ó Conchubhair
music by our chums the Primals