“They didn’t like a lad who was writing about music asking for Jack Charlton’s number because I was walking in on their pitch.”
In Pure Gold, Eamon Carr details the extraordinary encounters and the background stories that led to his weekly interviews in the Evening Herald. As a co-founder of the seminal Irish band Horslips, Carr has terms of reference not available to all. He tells Dion Fanning about the secret to making it as an interviewer.
