FRIDAY 24TH AUGUST 2012
I COULD HAPPEN TO YOU – JOHNNY DUHAN
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Title: IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU
Artist: JOHNNY DUHAN
Label: CRASHED
Date of entry: 21.08.1983
Highest Placement: 24
Weeks in the Charts: 2
JOHNNY DUHAN STARTED HIS CAREER AS A FIFTEEN YEAR OLD FRONT MAN IN THE LIMERICK BEAT GROUP GRANNY’S INTENTIONS, ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR BANDS IN IRELAND IN THE MID TO LATE ’60S.
JOHNNY TURNED HIS BACK ON THE POPULAR MUSIC INDUSTRY AND STARTED WRITING FOLK SONGS, POETRY AND PROSE. HE HAS CONDENSED A BODY OF WORK SPANNING 40 YEARS INTO A QUARTET OF ALBUMS, JUST ANOTHER TOWN, TO THE LIGHT, THE VOYAGE AND FLAME.
HIS SONGS ARE SUNG ALL OVER THE WORLD IN A VARIETY OF LANGUAGES, THANKS TO THE FOCUS PUT ON THEM BY CHRISTY MOORE, THE DUBLINERS, MARY BLACK AND MANY OTHER IRISH AND INTERNATIONAL SINGERS.