Irish Examiner View: Brendan Bowyer

Brendan Bowyer and his peers were the first generation of Irish entertainers influenced by the rock ’n roll revolution.

The Beatles were a support group during a Royal tour when Bowyer famously advised the four “to stick with it and you will make it”.

There is no equivalent of Brendan Bowyer, who has died in Las Vegas aged 81, in Ireland today. He and his peers were the first generation of Irish entertainers influenced by the rock ’n roll revolution.

Bowyer, who was born in Waterford but lived in America for almost 50 years, was a kind of halfway house between a traditional Irish tenor and his less formal, more animated American contemporaries.