{"id":663795,"date":"2026-10-24T06:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T06:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663795\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T06:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T06:10:08","slug":"ralph-mctell-ireland-always-felt-like-a-much-needed-source-of-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663795\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph McTell: \u201cIreland always felt like a much-needed source of care\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been nearly six decades since Ralph McTell, the singer-songwriter from South London, was shot into enduring superstardom after the release of Streets of London.\u00a0 The poignant vignette, originally conceived as \u201cStreets of Paris\u201d, sold upwards of 90,000 copies a day at its peak, earned McTell an Ivor Novello, and became a global anthem covered by some 200 artists to date. Alas, when a song comes to define a singer, the plush, professional blessing can tend towards a personal curse.\u00a0 How does he feel about it today?\u00a0 \u201cThere was a time where I thought that if you peak at 22,\u2026<\/p>\n<p>    &#13;<br \/>\n        <a class=\"restricted-content__logo\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/wp-content\/themes\/currency-theme\/assets\/img\/Monogram-dark.svg\" alt=\"Logo\" width=\"290\" height=\"246\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Join today with an Annual Membership and get full access to The Currency and The Wall Street Journal for just \u20ac200 or try Monthly Membership for just \u20ac5 for your first month.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"cta-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/pricing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Cancel at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide_mobile\">Are you already a member? .<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; It\u2019s been nearly six decades since Ralph McTell, the singer-songwriter from South London, was shot into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-663795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}