Truly, there's nobody like Philip Chevron
A measure of the man's greatness is that he has been largely ignored by Official Ireland, writes Declan Lynch
Declan Lynch
ONE of the organisers of the Testimonial concert for Philip Chevron at the Olympia Theatre on the 24th of this month told me recently that it hadn't turned out quite as they had imagined.
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