A 1970s group from Ireland that blended rock with social themes and classical crossover.
For a sense of their range, listen to "Miss Sarajevo" and "Beat On The Brat." They cover a lot of ground between those two.
They weren't just another rock band from Dublin. Songs like "What Is Going On" and "Miss Sarajevo" with Luciano Pavarotti pushed their sound into something broader, mixing straightforward rock with operatic ambition. That willingness to stretch kept them from being easily pinned down.
They started in the early 1970s and put out their first album, "Boy," in 1980. Over the years, their recordings moved from rock tracks like "Beat On The Brat" to collaborations with Pavarotti on "Ave Maria."
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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