DJ and broadcaster BP Fallon shares some of his rock and roll memories.
BP (Bernard Patrick) Fallon was educated in the English public school system, where any interest in pop music was actively discouraged and reinforced by a school regime of corporal punishment,
Pop music was considered very indecent.
Presenter Gay Byrne wonders how someone who is as courteous and mannerly as BP Fallon ended up associating with musicians who lived a rock and roll lifestyle.
Rock and roll touring tales of televisions being thrown out of hotel windows are one such example, but BP Fallon reassures him that such events were not malicious, and
You’d make sure there was no-one underneath first.
BP Fallon recalls meeting The Beatles. He also hitch-hiked to Amsterdam where he interviewed John Lennon during his and Yoko Ono’s Bed-in for Peace.
He was a hero of mine.
This episode of The Late Late Show was broadcast on 21 May 1983. The presenter is Gay Byrne.
