Richard "Dickie" Rock was the frontman of the Miami Showband, three members of which were murdered in 1975. Before he became famous Dickie was an apprentice welder. Dickie was the subject of a well-known Irish catchphrase—"spit on me Dickie", the origin of this being that rebellious young women in the 1960s wanted to be covered in Dickie's saliva in a manner similar to American women idolising the hips of Elvis. The phrase took off in Belfast in the 1960s and spread all over the world.
| Property | Value |
|---|
| dbpedia-owl:Artist/instrument
| |
| dbpedia-owl:MusicalArtist/associatedBand
| |
| dbpedia-owl:MusicalArtist/associatedMusicalArtist
| |
| dbpedia-owl:MusicalArtist/background
| |
| dbpedia-owl:Person/birthDate
| |
| dbpedia-owl:Person/birthName
| |
| dbpedia-owl:Person/birthPlace
| |
| dbpedia-owl:Person/occupation
| |
| dbpedia-owl:Person/otherName
| |
| dbpedia-owl:associatedBand
| |
| dbpedia-owl:associatedMusicalArtist
| |
| dbpedia-owl:background
| |
| dbpedia-owl:birthDate
| |
| dbpedia-owl:birthName
| |
| dbpedia-owl:birthPlace
| |
| dbpedia-owl:instrument
| |
| dbpedia-owl:occupation
| |
| dbpedia-owl:otherName
| |
| dbpprop:abstract
|
- Richard "Dickie" Rock was the frontman of the Miami Showband, three members of which were murdered in 1975. Before he became famous Dickie was an apprentice welder. Dickie was the subject of a well-known Irish catchphrase—"spit on me Dickie", the origin of this being that rebellious young women in the 1960s wanted to be covered in Dickie's saliva in a manner similar to American women idolising the hips of Elvis. The phrase took off in Belfast in the 1960s and spread all over the world. Between 1963 and 1977 Dickie and the Miami Showband had eight top ten hits. Dickie Rock and the Miami were the first Irish artists to go straight in to the number one spot with "There's Always Me" in 1965. Like John Lennon and Paul McCartney in England, Dickie went solo. He came fourth in the 1966 Eurovision Song Contest with a song entitled "Come Back to Stay". Dickie Rock is still popular after a career spanning more than 40 years. Following a third RTÉ documentary (one in the 1960s another in the 1980s and another done in 2006) about Dickie and his place at the forefront of the Irish showband scene, his loyal fans throughout the country have been clamouring for a chance to relive those glory days. One of Ireland’s most successful singers ever, Dickie had 25 Irish hits from 1963 to 1983, surpassed only by the Beatles, Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard, David Bowie and the Rolling Stones. During his time with the Miami Showband, Dickie attracted the kind of mass hysteria normally reserved for the Beatles and more recently boybands such as Westlife and singer Michael Jackson. In 2009, an anonymous employee of stricken financial giant Anglo Irish Bank made lewd comments about the singer; the bank launched an investigation into how this had happened and the incident was reported in the Irish media.
|
| dbpprop:after
| |
| dbpprop:alias
| |
| dbpprop:associatedActs
| |
| dbpprop:background
| |
| dbpprop:before
| |
| dbpprop:birthName
| |
| dbpprop:born
| |
| dbpprop:hasPhotoCollection
| |
| dbpprop:imgSize
| |
| dbpprop:instrument
| |
| dbpprop:name
| |
| dbpprop:occupation
| |
| dbpprop:reference
| |
| dbpprop:title
| |
| dbpprop:wikiPageUsesTemplate
| |
| dbpprop:wordnet_type
| |
| dbpprop:years
| |
| rdf:type
| |
| rdfs:comment
|
- Richard "Dickie" Rock was the frontman of the Miami Showband, three members of which were murdered in 1975. Before he became famous Dickie was an apprentice welder. Dickie was the subject of a well-known Irish catchphrase—"spit on me Dickie", the origin of this being that rebellious young women in the 1960s wanted to be covered in Dickie's saliva in a manner similar to American women idolising the hips of Elvis. The phrase took off in Belfast in the 1960s and spread all over the world.
|
| rdfs:label
| |
| owl:sameAs
| |
| skos:subject
| |
| foaf:name
| |
| foaf:page
| |
| is dbpprop:artist
of | |
| is dbpprop:disambiguates
of | |
| is owl:sameAs
of | |
![[RDF Data]](/statics/sw-cube.png)
