A look at the music and the artist of Irish born Gilbert O'Sullivan who recently has released a new album entitled Irlish and has taken his show back on the road .

Back in the early 1960s when most of us listened to The Beatles , The Shadows , and Bob Dylan , if you had mentioned the name Gilbert O’Sullivan you would have got no reply and a blank expression from most music lovers .
However at this time in his career Gilbert was very hard at work trying to get a break into the business . Before he started to write songs Gilbert played the drums and every morning he would regularly show up at the same music publisher asking to see the manager . This went on for months until finally the manager got sick of the sight of him sitting outside his office and invited him to come inside . After Gilbert had played a few of tunes he had paved his way to stardom . Gilbert got the break he was looking for and recorded his first single in 1967 entitled “Disappear” .

This was followed by a song entitled “Nothing Rhymed” that shot him straight into the big time in 1970 . Now people everywhere
began to hear the immaculate voice of Gilbert O’Sullivan .
At this stage he was joined by Gordon Mills who became Gilberts manager and they teamed up a string of hits together that included Alone Again , Clair , No Matter How I Tried , and Get Down ,
among many others .

In the 1980s Gilbert and his manager had a parting of company over million of pounds that where still owed in royalties to Gilbert .
A battle was fought in the courts and only recently while on tour in Australia Gilbert told the audience that he recently had won the case . During the twenty years it took to settle the case his manager had died and Gilbert was now back on track with his songs and career . His latest album entitled “Irlish” has just been released in New York and Japan . Gilbert has taken his show on the road performing his new songs as well as his well known hits .

In the new milenium on his Australian tour Gilbert had mentioned that he has always wanted to come to Australia even though it took him 30 years to arrive . With him on the tour where his wife and daughter as well as his brother Kevin . I was one of the very lucky few to have met up with Gilbert in person after the show . As far as I’m concerned there is no other like Gilbert O’Sullivan . He has always been my personal mentor and thank God for his special talent for it has made the world for me a much better place to live in .
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