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Rory Gallagher articles and interviews

• Disc Magazine, May 29 1971 (interview)
• Melody Maker, January 8 1972, "Music for Belfast"
• Melody Maker, July 8 1972, "Rory on the Road"
• Melody Maker, November 25 1972, "The Homespun Hero"
• Melody Maker, November 3 1973, "The Outsiders"
• Disc Magazine, 1975 "Almost a superstar" (interview)
• Guitar Player, March 1978 (cover story)
• Interview from 1978 by Mark Stevens
• TRIAD, February 1979, "Rory Gallagher: Meat 'N Potatoes Rock 'N Roll" by Mark Stevens (includes an introduction by M.Stevens). TRIAD is a Los Angeles based rock magazine.
• "A National Holiday with Rory Gallagher" by Tony McLean, CKCU-FM's program guide TransFM, June 6, 1985, Ottawa, Canada.
• The Star, January 3, 1988 "Rock on Rory" (interview)
• Q magazine, July 1990
• "Defender of the blues", an interview by Anil Prasad, 22 March 1991
• Guitar Player, June, 1991 (Profile)
• Interview with Rory by Shiv Cariappa, June 19, 1991
• "Blues Rocker Rory Gallagher's Unique Sound Bridges the Atlantic" (by Shiv Cariappa, "The Christian Science Monitor", July 29, 1991)
• Goldmine, October 4, 1991 (Interview about recording history)
• Guitar for the Practising Musician, August 1991 (Interviewed by Vivian Campbell)
• Hot Press, 1992 (interview)
• The Irish Times, June 16 1995, "Lest We Forget" by Joe Jackson
• The Irish Times, June 19 1995, "Nobody did it better" (a tribute by John Waters)
• The Irish Times, June 20 1995 (a story of the funeral by Dick Hogan)
• The Guardian, June 16 1995 (tribute)
• The Times, 16 June 1995 (tribute)
• The Australian, 21 June 1995 (tribute)
• Melody Maker, June 24 1995 (tribute)
• New Musical Express, 24 June 1995 (tribute)
• Goldmine, July 21 1995 (vol. 21, no 15, issue 391) (tribute)
• Hot Press, volume 19, nos 13 & 14, July 1995 (tributes)
• Fender Frontline VOL. 16 Summer 1995, by Tom Nolan
• Q, August 1995 (tribute)
• The Guitar Magazine, August 1995 (tribute)
• Record Collector, August 1995, 3 pages (tribute)
• Mojo #21, August 1995 (tribute)
• Folk Roots, August/September 1995 (tribute)
• Guitar (UK), vol. 5, No. 8, August 1995, p. 20-22, by Glenn Rice
• Guitar Player, October 1995 (tribute)
• Guitar World, October 1995 (tribute)
• "Rory Gallagher: man and his music", Evening Echo, Cork, Nov 13, 1995 (tribute)
• "Gallagher never lost touch with folk blues", by Colette Sheridan, The Examiner, Cork, 23 Nov, 1995 (tribute)
• Cosmic Debris, December 1995, by Phil N. Rossner (to find out more about the Cosmic Debris magazine look here) (tribute)
• The Star, 1995 (tribute)
• Daily Mirror, 1995 (tribute)
• Hot Press, volume 19, number 25, January 1996, tribute by Niall Stokes.
• Interview with Gerry McAvoy, by Shiv Cariappa, January 8, 1997.
• Interview with Brendan O'Neill, by Shiv Cariappa, March 26, 1997
• "Rory in the sky" by Rick Koster, Dallas Observer, November 27 1997
• Total guitar, issue 40, February 1998, p. 110-111
• 'The last days of Rory Gallagher', May 17 1998, Sunday Times Culture supplement (the article appeared only in the Irish edition of the Culture supplement)
• The Guitar Magazine (UK), july 1998, Vol 8 No 10, pg 92-100
• Mojo, October 1998, "Ballad of a Thin Man" by Colin Harper
• Hot Press, (date unknown, review of a concert held in dublin for Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday)
• Sunday Post, September 6 (interview, year unknown)
• Metal Hammer (interview, date unknown)
• Mark Feltham: Maestro on the Harmonica by Shiv Cariappa
• Sun June 24 2005: Rory's will be featured in a forthcoming book called Beautiful Day
• An arcticle by Billy O' Shea (July 2005)
• Finnish TV did an short interview with Rory when he was visiting Finland in August 1975. You can watch it  in this link. Just click the "Haastattelu" button below Rory's picture.