Name | Joe Dolan |
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Caption | Photo from the cover of "Make Me an Island" LP |
Birth name | Joseph Francis Robert Dolan |
Birth date | October 16, 1939 |
Birth place | Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland |
Death date | December 26, 2007 |
Death place | Mater Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. |
Death cause | Brain hemorrhage |
Occupation | Singer |
Website | joedolan.com |
He made his first stage appearance at a talent show in his native Mullingar.
The musical landscape in the 1960s was dominated by the showbands. First single “The Answer to Everything”, released in September 1964, quickly reached number 4 in the charts and Joe and his band were guided by manager Seamus Casey. But in the summer of 1968, musical differences saw the band split up.
Joe became an even bigger worldwide star with follow-up singles “Teresa” and “You’re Such a Good Looking Woman”. Although singles such as “It Makes No Difference” and “You and the Looking Glass” were not big hits at home or in the UK, they were international successes for Joe. When he hooked up with writers Roberto Danova and Peter Yellowstone in the mid 1970s things went well for him internationally – 1974's “Sweet Little Rock ‘n’ Roller” was their first of many triumphs. It was later recorded by Showaddywaddy, who had a Top 20 hit with the song in 1979 in the UK, Bay City Rollers and Rod Stewart.
It was followed by one of Joe’s biggest-ever sellers, “Lady in Blue”. His biggest ever selling single, it was popular in Europe, Australasia, Africa and South America but not in Ireland or the UK. Further hits including “Crazy Woman”, “Sister Mary”, “Midnight Lover”, “Hush Hush Maria” and “I Need You” followed. Reflective songs such as “If I Could Put My Life on Paper” showcased a more maturing artist, whilst definitive versions of songs such as “Danny Boy” ensured his international audiences always had a touch of Irish on disc and in concert. In any given month Joe could be touring the Middle East one week, Australia the next, then South Africa and then back to Europe and his beloved Ireland.
In 1978, he made history when he became the first Western act to tour communist Russia. Further international successes and tours followed, with hits such as “More and More” and “It’s You, It’s You, It’s You” ensuring he had little time to settle down for any reasonable length of time.
The eighties was a time of transition for Joe. He started the decade by achieving major success in Las Vegas for two years. But he never liked to be away from home for too long and having started the decade as one of the world’s biggest acts he decided to concentrate instead on Ireland.
With his own record label, studio and material Joe became one of the biggest selling independent artists of the 1990s with albums such as ‘Endless Magic’ keeping him near the top of the charts. At the end of the decade he refined his voice for the 21st century when he hooked up with EMI for a series of albums (such as ‘Joe’s 90s’, ‘21st Century Joe’ and ‘Home Grown’) which saw him tackle more contemporary music from acts as diverse as Oasis, Pulp, Blur, U2, Bruce Springsteen, The Coral, R.E.M., Mundy and his old pal Robbie Williams (Joe was a good friend of Robbie’s father, and he often stayed at the Williams home when in the UK). He brought Blur to the top of the Irish charts with a version of “The Universal”. It became a staple of his live shows. At the Oxegen Festival 2009, Blur’s Damon Albarn dedicated the song to Joe.
Joe recorded “Let There Be Love”- an album of old-school crooner classics perfectly suited to his smooth and still powerful voice. Plans were set in motion for further albums and some major concerts to cement his legendary status and as 2007 came to a close the clamour for Joe’s concert tickets was greater than ever.
On December 26, 2007, Dolan was rushed from his home in Foxrock to the Mater Private Hospital in Dublin following a worsening of his illness. He died of a brain hemorrhage at approximately 15:00 hours that day.
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