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“I’m obviously, in a way that sounds like some sort of Irish fable, my eldest son is more Irish than me because his mother is from Galway.” | “I’m obviously, in a way that sounds like some sort of Irish fable, my eldest son is more Irish than me because his mother is from Galway.” | ||
Elvis said his father, (circled) the musician Ross MacManus, who passed away in 2011, was proud of his Irish roots. | |||
“I think my dad became progressively more Irish as he got older – that possible? He became sort of more Irish,” he recalled. | |||
“He definitely grew up in an Irish community, literally dockside in Birkenhead. His grandfather was the one that came from Dungannon (County Tyrone). So, he just identified with that. | |||
“And my half-brothers, who are twenty years or more younger than me, all play for the London-Irish. They’re all instrumentalists: the eldest played the whistle, the second is a drummer, the youngest two are songwriters. | |||
“And my brother Ronan had a group, BibleCode Sundays” – a Celtic punk band that was “originally called Slainte”, according to the Wiki page – “ until a couple of years ago. | |||
“Everybody in my family is a musician, basically.” | |||
Elvis now, of course, has got an OBE at the end of that very Irish sounding name of his: Declan Patrick McManus. | |||
It was awarded to him in 2019 for his service to music. But it’s pretty ironic that the Queen decided to bestow him with the title Officer of the Order of the British Empire considering the lyrics in his 1979 song Oliver’s Army. | |||
“I thought it was pretty funny, too. I guess they didn’t listen to the words,” he agreed, laughing, about a song that “maybe I’d think twice” about penning nowadays. He hates when radio stations censor the controversial lyrics. | |||
“My da went in through the tradesmen entrance in 1962 to play with Joe Loss at the Buckingham Palace staff ball. So eventually you get to walk in the front door and they have to look you in the eye. | |||
“The British Empire had a pretty good job at killing both of my grand-fathers. So I hold a grudge!” | |||
I would’ve presumed you’d have needed a proverbial pair of you-know-what to have called yourself after the King of Rock and Roll himself when starting out. | |||
“I never really thought about it,” he confessed. “It was given to me by my first manager, as like a dare. | |||
“And if you think about the names people had then they were provocative names. And that was the style of that time. | |||
“Prior to that – because of my father being a singer – I was well aware that people took on different guises. | |||
“My dad used to do a lot of adverts and jingles. He did a lot of session work. He was with Joe Loss (Orchestra) for many years; that was a radio dance band really. They would broadcast on the BBC. And one of the things was, the singers were not allowed to make records on their own names. | |||
“So my dad would go off and do records under aliases, basically for cash. He’d do cover records and adverts. | |||
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