A CELTIC LEGACY

Ireland’s ‘Fab Five’, Horslips emerged from a troubled country to become the prog saviours of their national heritage. Fifty years on, with the release of an expansive box set featuring a staggering array of previously unavailable music, the band’s biographer takes Prog through the making of their 1972 debut album… and how it earned the wrath of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger.

Mark Cunningham

Until the dawn of the 70s, live music in Ireland had been a vibrant but disorganised scene, hosted entirely in pubs, clubs and college halls that valiantly attempted to shake off the lingering post-war monochrome cloud. Though Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy and the Hendrix-produced Eire Apparent were among the first rock acts of note to emerge from the grey as the decade began to unravel, a more unusual outfit came through to infuse the Emerald Isle’s youth with life-affirming escapism. In that era of devastating social and political crises, Horslips revolutionised the country’s live music landscape by cultivating a new live rock circuit, packing out ballrooms normally reserved for tuxedo-clad show bands. They also showed that it was possible to create and release music purely on their own terms, and…

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