Tom Dunne's Music & Me: All hail the showbands' legacy

The success of acts like Van Morrison and U2 can be traced back to work done by the likes of Brendan Bowyer and the Royal in the early 1960s

Brendan Bowyer and the Royal Showband at the Bowling Alley in Cork in 1965.

'Kiss me Quick' (Sacred Irish Song #1) by the Royal Showband is the most important song in Irish Music.

It is the originator, the song on which the success of all subsequent Irish popular music is based. No 'Kiss me Quick', no U2, Thin Lizzy or Fontaines DC.