Bob Marley, Queen, U2: Pat Egan reveals the most memorable gigs he organised
Pat Egan, centre, with Phil Lynott and Rory Gallagher: Both stars come across well in the promoter's new memoir.
Pat Egan, 75, has led an extraordinary life. He grew up penniless around Dublin’s Dorset St, cadging a living, having left school at 13 years of age. He never met his father.
“My father came home for one night after being away for four years during the second world war, and that was the night I was conceived,” says Egan. “He left the next day. We never heard from him again until the day he died in 1978.
