FOREVER A ROCK 'N' ROLL KID: A Journey through Music, Song and Stories

Charlie McGettigan is singer/songwriter/guitarist living in Drumshambo, Co. Leitrim, Ireland. He has written over 1,000 songs including 'Feet of a dancer and 'Bed for the Night'.

If the past is a foreign country, then Charlie McGettigan is the best of our guides. Forever a Rock 'N' Roll Kid: A Journey through Music, Song and Stories takes the reader back to Ireland in the 1950s, avoiding the cliched golden one-liners where sweetness and light prevailed. Instead, Charlie has opted to tell a ‘warts and all’ story of Irish life in what in his opinion are laughingly called 'the good old days.' A time where poverty and deprivation were made worse by a dominant clerical presence and an often-brutal schooling system that succeeded in driving many young people away from both religion and education. Charlie pulls no punches yet manages to avoid being bitter, mixing the hard stories with funny and heart-warming tales of growing up in rural Ireland, moving to Dublin, working for the ESB, rearing a family and his rise to fame.