David Gray “My Dad pulled out his chemo tubes and came and cheered Bowie up”

from Brendan O'Connor · host RTÉ Radio 1

David Gray’s White Ladder album remains the biggest selling album in Ireland, ever. He talks to Brendan about that time through the prism of five songs ranging from Madness to David Bowie to John McCormack.

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