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An outfit referred to as the Strand Roof Orchestra beneath the path of bandleader Billy Fowler continues to be identified by swinging archaeologists as the initial professional affiliation of Bobby Sands, a tenor and baritone saxophonist given birth to in Brooklyn early in the 20th hundred years. Fowler’s group was …

An IRA employee who died while on a hunger strike within a Uk prison, Bobby Sands was also the author of “BACK in Derry,” a tune that was performed and recorded by a number of Irish artists, including Mary O’Dowd, Christy Moore, as well as the Fenians. Sands became a …