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GOLLY GALLAGHER

UK – DISCO pioneer discjockey

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“DISC JOCKEY”

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Yahu Pawul

When I was about 15, I loved music so much, I thought being DJ would be a great thing to do - playing the music I loved and getting paid for it. I was listening to Radio Caroline from about 16, and really admired the DJs on there, especially Johnnie Walker who I still admire.

I applied for a job at a new club that was opening up in my home town of Farnborough, through word of mouth, when I was about 18-years-old. But I got a job at the club as the cloakroom attendant! I was speaking to the manager of the club after about six months of being in the cloakroom job. He was called Laurie O’Leary, who was running two other clubs in London. Sybillas (owned by Beatle George Harrison) and the infamous Speakeasy club in Margaret Street, off Portland Place right by BBC Radio 1’s former studios and offices in Egton House.

Within two weeks, 2 gentlemen in tasty Mohair suits turned up while I was in the cloakroom, before we were open, and were talking to me about the DJ. I said I could probably play better music than him. They said Laurie had told them I wanted to be a DJ. They were the club’s owners, but I had not seen them before. They gave me £100, and I asked what it was for. They said to go buy some trendy clothes in Carnaby Street. I asked why. They said; because you are going to be the new DJ in this club.

Their names were Reggie and Ronnie Kray, the infamous Kray twins, the London gangsters. I worked for them for three years. The Club was called The Big C. I also visited as their guest their two London clubs. I saw Ben E King at one of the clubs with his backing band who were called Hopskotch, who became The Average White Band. I got the clothes; a frilly shirt, velvet jacket, black trousers with splits in the bottom and blue velvet flares. I looked the business, for that time!

I became the DJ there and we had bands nearly every night. Some of the biggest legends now came through that club then. The Temptations, The Isley Brothers, Otis Redding with Booker T & The MGs, The Small Faces, The Kinks....virtually every act in the charts in the 60s and 70s were there.

I was a personality DJ, singing with the music, dancing around and being generally zany. None of this standing behind decks mixing tracks like they do today. The capacity was over 1,000 people and it was busy all the time. I built up a big profile there, and that gave me my start as a DJ.

I was the first club DJ in the south of England to be on the Atlantic/Stax mailing list to be sent promo records to play. I wa ...........

... with Alan Freeman

......... nto Ibiza hospital and they operated on my spine. They messed up badly and left me disabled, and my left leg doesn’t work properly. I came back to England and didn’t know what I was going to do. Slowly but surely the music business sucked me back in, and I opened GFI Promotions again.

But expanded to do PR and press as well as radio plugging, and specialise in blues music. I have been in business now this time round for about a decade with great success for my artists. I represent record labels and artists direct.

RADIO CAROLINE STORY ****

When I was at the Big C club, we had all the big bands perform there, but we also had all the big DJs of the day appearing there. Emperor Rosko, Roger “Twiggy” Day, Johnnie Walker, Keith Hampshire.... Someone from Radio Caroline’s management saw me DJing when o ............

INTERVIEW BY YAHU PAWUL

Y@HU - when did you decide to become deejay for IDEA Agency ?

GOLLY - When I was with BBS agency, based in Denmark, I was chased for about 6 months by Alan Laurie who was the boss of IDEA agency, the biggest DJ agency in Scandinavia. He wanted me on their books. I had a best friend who was a DJ, and I said to IDEA; if you want me, you have to sign my mate Brian too. They refused so I said no to their offer. They kept coming back and each time, I told them they had to sign both of us. Eventually they did. I was with them about a year. They got me good work and the money went right up. They were better clubs, better quality of DJs. If I had stayed longer, I would have worked in Switzerland, Austria and many other countries, but I went off to find my friend John Penney in Ibiza.

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