5 Irish Bands from 1973 – Brand New Retro

sundowners

sands

royal

red=nevada

dixies-1973

cover All band photos scanned from the 1974 New Spotlight year book which came out in December 1973.

Compare and contrast with the set of photos from the 1966 New Spotlight year book here.

Jake
12 May 2016

Jack Charlton doing a fine job at the back for the Royal Blues – back in ’66 when his day job was playing soccer for England…
BrandNewRetro
12 May 2016

a ringer, looks more like than Jack than Bobby. btw, Jake, when oh when are they going to take your Eurovision entry on board?
1. Jake
  13 May 2016
  
  Thanks, DubDoug – the dream lives on…))
Hans Lignell
12 May 2016

These photographs bring back wonderful memories of the great “Band Era” that was in Ireland in the 70’s.
In the bottom right hand corner of the Dixies shot, is Joe O’Toole who was there lead singer then. He came to prominence when he had a group called “Joe O’Toole and The Apples” and they came second in a talent competition run by RTE. I was there on the final night and recognised that Joe had a unique talent not only as a singer, but as a song writer as well, and I became there manger the next day.
BrandNewRetro
12 May 2016

Thanks Hans, good to hear from you again.

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