Time To Rattle Skulls

I crave peer validation.
That's where you come in.

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2012

  • In 1982, May Booker, a 70-year-old grandmother from England, wrote producers at the BBC. The subject of her letter was her favorite band, Thin Lizzy, hard rock’s biggest act at the time. “How nice it would be,” she wrote, “to play with them.”Recognizing a golden opportunity, producers reached out to the band. Lead singer Phil Lynott, raised by his paternal grandmother in Crumlin, Dublin, agreed to share the stage with Booker, who “played” an Oberheim OB-X synthesizer on the band’s pre-recorded performance of “Hollywood.”

  • In 1982, May Booker, a 70-year-old grandmother from England, wrote producers at the BBC. The subject of her letter was her favorite band, Thin Lizzy, hard rock’s biggest act at the time. “How nice it would be,” she wrote, “to play with them.”

    Recognizing a golden opportunity, producers reached out to the band. Lead singer Phil Lynott, raised by his paternal grandmother in Crumlin, Dublin, agreed to share the stage with Booker, who “played” an Oberheim OB-X synthesizer on the band’s pre-recorded performance of “Hollywood.”