GROWING up in Cork in the late ’50s and early ’60s was different. For us teenagers, the World War was mostly forgotten, and as we tried to figure out this embarrassing hormonal shift in our bodies, we were to experience a seismic change in our culture: the advent of Rock and Roll.
It crept in surreptitiously at first, as Radio Éireann continued to play the likes of Doris Day, Pat Boone, Ruby Murray and Brendan O’Dowda.
But a brash intrusion into our airwaves by Radio Luxembourg brought a different sound.
Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard, Fats Domino and Ricky Nelson, they were our wavelength!
On Sunday nights, Radio Luxembourg’s Top Twenty was the programme that told…