John Creedon has told The Brendan O’Connor Show on RT\u00c9 Radio 1 that his entrepreneurial spirit once saw him managing a rapper in his native Cork city.<\/p>\n
The presenter joined the show on Sunday to share five songs that have been there at turning points in his life, when talk turned to Creedon’s stint as a budding music mogul.<\/p>\n
“You have to tell me about… you managed a rapper at one stage,” said O’Connor.<\/p>\n
“He was a manager in Burgerland, which Munster people will remember Burgerland as a kind of proto McDonald’s before we had McDonald’s,” O’Connor explained.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, and do you remember right beside it was a place we called Pisaland (Pizzaland)?” laughed Creedon.<\/p>\n
“Now, Pisa’s actually a town in Italy, but ‘I’ll have a vegetarian pisa’… Pisaland and Burgerland were right beside each other.”<\/p>\n
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“He knew I was involved in the pirates at the time – in pirate radio,” Creedon continued about his adventures in management.<\/p>\n
“That was a mad rollercoaster. Made a living, paid the bills, but, em, yeah, remember being raided by the guards on one occasion. We’d spent years preparing for it, and the day they arrived, sure, we made a bags of it!<\/p>\n
“But yeah, anyway, all I remember was his name was Lester.<\/p>\n
“But I decided, because he could rap and he used to do The Sugar Hill Gang and Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five – rap was new – and I thought, ‘Let’s make a fortune! We’ll call you Lester Rapalot!’ Sir Lester Rapalot – that’s the name I gave him!<\/p>\n
“Ah sure, look, I was 24 and he was 19, but you know, I was the senior… I was the Arthur Daly in the operation!<\/p>\n
“So, we did a tour of west Cork and we did Ballinascarthy Hall. We did… there was a disco inside in the shopping centre in Dunmanway, and I think the Bantry Boys’ Club. And, really, they kind of didn’t get it!”<\/p>\n
“You were ahead of your time!” laughed O’Connor.<\/p>\n
“Well, that’s it,” Creedon agreed.<\/p>\n
Creedon’s music choices included his late father Con, Rory Gallagher, Donna Summer, Christy Moore, and Louis Armstrong.<\/p>\n
His new book, This Boy’s Voice: A Journey into Manhood, is published by Gill Books.<\/p>\n
The John Creedon Show airs weeknights on RT\u00c9 Radio 1 from 8pm.<\/p>\n
The Brendan O’Connor Show is on Saturdays and Sundays on RT\u00c9 Radio 1 from 11am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Creedon has told The Brendan O’Connor Show on RT\u00c9 Radio 1 that his entrepreneurial spirit once saw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-665911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665911","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=665911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}