'An infrequent conversation between fans of music, some of it long-lost’
The writer and biographer, Johnny Rogan, died on January 21st, 2021. His death was announced on February 12th. Seán Aylward remembers his good friend. The noted music biographer, Johnny Rogan, who died recently in London, was born in 1953 and grew up in England. He was the son of 1940s emigrants from Waterford. He was... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJPrDNPC4ZY Johnny Rogan’s ‘The Severed Alliance’ was the first in-depth biography of The Smiths and, consequently, generated much reaction, not least of all from Morrissey, its loudest central character. Published in May, 1992, five years after the band split on the eve of the release of its fifth studio album, ‘Strangeways, Here We Come’, the... Continue Reading →
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