Half a century has passed since that “Battery seeks musicians to form a band”; the poster that a 14-year-old Larry posted on the bulletin board of his Mount Temple Comprehensive School. It was September 25, 1976 and nothing meant that behind such a teenage gesture was brewing, in Clontarf – a middle-class coastal neighborhood north of Dublin – the birth of one of the best rock bands in the world.
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Half a century has passed since that “Battery seeks musicians to form a band”; the poster that a 14-year-old Larry posted on the bulletin board of his Mount Temple Comprehensive School. It was September 25, 1976 and nothing meant that behind such a teenage gesture was brewing, in Clontarf – a middle-class coastal neighborhood north of Dublin – the birth of one of the best rock bands in the world.