Source: BBC News
Farewell Ronnie Drew, Dublin (1934-2008) 19th
By Matthias Heine August 2008, 02:05 clock
The Germans cling rather tenaciously to a romantic Ireland Picture: Rural pithy-bearded, walking through green fields to the nearest pub, where they will sing old songs, acting like this to fool the British . Only on second thought remembered it because have read in the newspaper that the green industry nation now has a higher per capita income than Germany. Ronnie Drew, the more so as Heinrich Böll has contributed to his "Irish Diary" of that rustic image Ireland, died last Saturday at age 73, but the myth, which he reinterpreted will survive him.
Drew founded in 1962 with Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna and Ciaran Bourke a folk band called Ronnie Drew Group, which first appeared in the back room of O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin, before as The Dubliners achieved worldwide success. Some of her songs like "The Rising of the Moon" or "Whiskey in the Jar" was centuries old, others sounded only so, but were by poets of the 20th century, such as Brendan Behan was written. The time was ripe for the Dubliners, across discovered young music listeners, the musical Heritage of their homelands again.
Ronnie Drew, who on 16 September 1934 in the port town of Dun Laoghaire was born, had as a teenager for a while, the itinerant life of a true folk singer out: He went to Spain, lived from English lessons, and gained in the mother country of the new guitar playing techniques. With the Dubliners, he later sang the most combative and humorous songs during Mr Luke Kelly with his gentle voice for the ballads was responsible. Drew's voice is heard on one of the biggest commercial successes of the Dubliners' Seven Drunken Nights ", which in 1967 they came up in the British charts. Until a few years ago were the Dubliners (last without Ronnie Drew) on a regular basis on tour in Germany, who used it in the medium-sized cities. A final highlight of the band's career was the single "Irish Rover" which they recorded in 1995 with the Pogues, who had eingefiedelt in the eighties, a second Irish folk revival.
In recent decades, Drew went solo not only on stage in Sean Casey's song "Purple Dust" and the Lloyd-Webber musical "Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" on, but also sang on solo records songs, including Elvis Costello, Bono, Shane McGowan had written for him. Bono took with other members of U2 and Irish musicians such as Sinead O'Connor, Shane McGowan and Christy Moore early 2008, "The Ballad of Ronnie Drew" that will come their Tantiemenprofite complete the Irish Cancer Society to the best. Bono said: "Ronnie is like the king of Ireland, and we are all his subjects." At this time, Drew suffered for one and a half years ago from cancer.
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