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Welcome to our regular music and entertainment guide, brought
to you by Paddy McCarthy for your reading enjoyment

TThhee PPuussssyy CCaatt DDoollllss are set to return
after signing a multi-million deal to
reunite for a world tour. This tour is
going to be huge and the group will be mandolin and an electric guitar plus full kit drums gives them a driving sound that
playing their greatest hits. But there keeps the crowd moving while the stories keep the crowd listening and singing along.
has been talk of the possibility of them Fun, fast, loud.. It’s Bangers and Mash. Cranking out original songs or completely
recording new music. Well, I for one am skewering a classic, “BAM” gives it all they’ve got, all the time. They’ll keep you danc-
glad about that because they were just ing in the aisles, raising a pint, and having a ball. Bangers and Mash is “Music for the
as big, if not bigger, than The Spice Celticly Insane”. Based in Suffolk County, New York the full-time line-up includes
Girls and why not make a come back as they were very popular. LLiiaamm HHuuddoocckk on lead vocals, CCaarroollee LLeesssseellbbaauumm on lead vocals and bodhran, CChhaadd
SSiirr RRoodd SStteewwaarrtt has opened up about his secret bat- HHeerrtthh on electric lead guitar, SSeetthh LLeesssseellbbaauumm on bass, and SSeetthh SSaallwweenn on drums.
tle with prostate cancer and has urged all men to They have played throughout the Northeast and are now regularly touring areas of
get regular check-ups. The 74-year-old singer was Florida and the Midwest.
diagnosed with prostate cancer in February 2016 EEddddiiee MMoonneeyy, yes, that was his real name and he was 100% Irish. Edward Joseph
during a routine check-up, but he fought the dis- Mahoney (March 21, 1949 – September 13, 2019), known professionally as Eddie Money,
ease and has been in remission since July. With his was an American rock singer and songwriter who had success in the 1970s and 1980s
health problems currently behind him, Stewart with several Top 40 songs including “Baby Hold On”, “Two Tickets to Paradise”, “Think
detailed his agonizing three-year battle while at a I’m in Love”, “Shakin’”, “Take Me Home Tonight”, “I Wanna Go Back”, “Walk on
fundraising event for PPrroossttaattee PPrroojjeecctt in Surrey on Water”, and “The Love in Your Eyes”.
Sunday, where he was joined by his former FFaacceess Known for his husky voice and his blue-collar personality as a working-class rocker, in
bandmate KKeennnneeyy JJoonneess and RRoolllliinngg SSttoonneess rocker 1987, Money was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal
RRoonnnniiee WWoooodd. Rod is still one of the best entertainers in the World and just finished a Performance for “Take Me Home Tonight”. He was born into a large family of Irish
tour of Ireland where he sold out everywhere and he has big hit on his hands with Catholics in Brooklyn. His parents were Dorothy Elizabeth (née Keller), a homemaker,
GGrraaccee. I have to say that Rod Stewart really does a great job, but the man who toppedc and Daniel Patrick Mahoney, a police officer. He grew up in Levittown, New York, on
that in singing Grace was the late JJiimm MMccCCaannnn RIP. Long Island, but also spent some teenage years in Woodhaven, Queens.
It was so sad to hear that the lead vocalist with TThhee Money was a street singer since the age of 11. As a teenager, he played in rock bands,
CCaarrss died of cardiovascular disease. RRiicc OOccaasseekk in part to get dates from cheerleaders. He was thrown out of one high school for forg-
died at his Manhattan penthouse on September 15. ing a report card. In 1967, he graduated from Island Trees High School. At the age of
The New York Police Department said he was found 18, he tried to follow in the footsteps of his police officer grandfather, father, and
unresponsive and pronounced him dead in his brother as a New York City Police Department trainee. However, after working as a
sleep. The autopsy findings coincide with two clerk and typist, he left in 1968 to pursue a career in music, as the police did not allow
touching social media posts by the Ocasek family him to grow his hair long. “I couldn’t see myself in a police uniform for 20 years of my
that have provided deeper insight in the singer- life, with short hair,” he later said .His bandmates also fired him because they did not
songwriter’s final hours. The first post, by Ocasek’s want a police officer in the group. His
wife Paulina Porizkova (from whom he amicably father was not happy with the decision
separated in 2018) says the new wave pioneer died in his sleep after undergoing sur- to play music and tore the Jimi
gery. Rest in Peace Ric. Hendrix posters from his wall. In July
I saw this band at the Nassau County Festival on Sunday at the Lido Beach on Long 2019, Money underwent heart valve
Beach and they blew me away. Here is a little bit about them as they are also from surgery and contracted pneumonia,
Long Island, New York causing him to cancel tour dates.
When BBaannggeerr aanndd MMaasshh created the band the idea was to do Irish rock music with a Money had been a cigarette smoker for
lot of our original music. Starting out in 2003 they already had a bunch of originals years. On August 24, 2019, he revealed
that had been used in previous efforts and they soon realized that they were going in a that he had been diagnosed with stage
different direction than most other Celtic rock bands. Most of their songs are stories of 4 esophageal cancer Complications
either their experiences in life or historical events that they feel have not been high- from the cancer resulted in his death
lighted. They write from their perspective of growing up in New York City and Long in a Los Angeles hospital on
Island. As the years have gone on their music has moved to what they call Americelt. September 13, 2019, at age 70. RIP
It’s a meld of Celtic Rock, Southern Rock and Folk which when driven by fiddle or Eddie, you will be sorely missed! C