The Frank and Walters: Top of the Pops, Paul McCartney and the 'Corkchester' hype

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The Frank and Walters: Top of the Pops, Paul McCartney and the 'Corkchester' hype

Ashley Keating and Paul Linehan of the Frank and Walters in a file picture from 2018. Picture Dan Linehan

On a crisp day in the summer of 1992, three Cork men piled into a boat and began rowing across a lake in Salzburg. “We were making the video for 'This Is Not A Song'. There was supposed to be a Sound Of Music theme,” recalls Frank and Walters’ drummer Ashley Keating.  

“When you were making a video back then you’d put it out to various companies and they’d come in with a pitch. It [Austria and the rowing] wasn’t the greatest idea. There were much better ideas. But it was a trip to Salzburg.” 

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