The Real Reason Rory Gallagher Will Never Be Forgotten

The Real Reason Rory Gallagher Will Never Be Forgotten On New Year's Day 1972, a rock concert was played in Belfast for the first time in six months. The city was at war. Car bombs were going off on an almost daily basis. Every major band touring the UK had quietly removed Belfast from their schedules — and nobody could blame them. One man showed up anyway. That man was Rory Gallagher. An Irish guitarist from Cork who had just been voted the best in the world by one of Britain's biggest music magazines, and who could have played anywhere on earth that year. He chose Belfast. By the end of this video, you'll understand why that decision — and several others like it — is the real reason his name keeps coming back, thirty years after his death, louder than it ever was when he was alive.