Duke Special is to kick off his Irish tribute tour to Harry Nilsson (the “fifth Beatle”) in Derry next month.
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Nilsson has been described as the “missing Beatle'”and John Lennon named him as his favourite American “band.”
He achieved success on both sides of the Atlantic as a recording artist, song writer for hire and interpreter of other people’s songs and was one of the few major pop-rock recording artists of his era to achieve significant commercial success without ever performing many major public concerts or regularly touring.
He was feted by, worked with or was friends with The Beatles, Phil Spector, The Monkees, Randy Newman, Glen Campbell, song-writer Jimmy Webb and many other stars of the day.
He said he was inspired to put the Nilsson show together because he was an artist who had always been on the periphery of his world.
He added: “He is someone who I’d known as a song-writer and piano player and I knew some of his better known material, but I was excited by the thought of exploring his music properly.”
Duke Special (with special guest Meabh McGinley) will kick off the Irish tour at the Millennium Forum on Saturday, 12 October next. Tickets are now available from the Box Office, telephone o28 71 264455 or visit www.millenniumforum.co.uk.
After his Derry show, his tour will take in Belfast, Galway, Dublin, Mullingar and Cork.
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