The REAL MUSIC Agency 

A songwriter extraordinaire. A spell binding performer. A gentleman.

Benny Gallagher is a captivator. He speaks .... he sings .... You listen.

His gentle, magical, but commanding presence is a delight to experience. An evening with Benny Gallagher will uplift you, returning you to your home with those innumerable well-loved songs filtering through your senses & simply refusing to go away ....

Benny’s co-writer on many of these songs was Graham Lyle. Both are from Largs in Scotland. They came south in the Sixties and joined The Beatles' publishing company, Apple, as Gallagher & Lyle, writing songs for many performers, not least Mary Hopkin - Apple Records' most successful solo artist.

Upon the decline of Apple the duo stayed together joining Tom McGuinness from Manfred Mann and Hughie Flint from John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers to form McGuinness Flint.  When I'm Dead and Gone and Malt and Barley Blues were the band’s biggest hits. After two albums and three singles the duo decided it was time to develop their own careers and formed Gallagher & Lyle.

The following years saw Gallagher & Lyle touring the world playing their stunning album Breakaway to ever widening audiences … it featured the wonderful singles I Wanna Stay With You, Heart On My Sleeve and of course Breakaway. Art Garfunkel also had a major hit single with this track.

By 1979, feeling they had exhausted possibilities both on the road and in the studio, Benny and Graham decided to go their separate ways. Ironically Simon & Garfunkel performed A Heart In New York – one of the last G&L joint compositions – to a massive audience of 500,000 in The Concert In Central Park. Thanks to a suggestion from Paul Simon, Garth Brooks recently repeated the compliment .... performing A Heart In New York to an audience of 750,000 at his Central Park concert  -  making it the largest concert in the history of New York, with simultaneous broadcasts throughout America on HBO.

Benny continued his songwriting career in the UK, with occasional visits to Nashville, where Don Williams gave him his first No 1 hit in the Country Music Chart with Stay Young.

Naming just a few ...... Benny has worked with:   Paul McCartney, Mary Hopkin, Eric Clapton, The Blues Band, Ronnie Wood, Ronnie Lane, Elkie Brooks, Sandy Denny, The Manfreds, Ralph McTell, Georgie Fame, Jim Diamond, Andy Fairweather-Low, Don Williams and Gary Brooker, as well as blues legends Arthur Big Boy Cruddup and Champion Jack Dupree.

Past years have seen Benny touring the world as bass player and vocalist with The Manfreds. He’s still busy writing as well as touring .... and by special request will play as a solo artist at selected Arts Centres. 1999 & 2000 saw Benny playing bass on sell out tours throughout the UK with Dennis Locorriere the Voice of Dr Hook.