{"id":50883,"date":"2019-06-27T16:36:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T15:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=50883"},"modified":"2019-07-09T12:18:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T11:18:10","slug":"johnny-lappin-in-a-lifetime-from-hozier-to-u2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/06\/johnny-lappin-in-a-lifetime-from-hozier-to-u2\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Lappin &#8211; &#8216;In a Lifetime &#8211; From Hozier To U2&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>If you&#8217;re not familiar with the music industry, or the Irish music industry in particular, then you&#8217;ve probably never heard of Johnny Lappin. But you&#8217;ve certainly heard of the people he&#8217;s been associated with and partly &#8211; or largely responsible for &#8211; names such as Clannad, Hozier, and Celtic Women are internationally renown, and Johnny has certainly had more than a small hand in their success, as well as in that of many others.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50886\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/06\/johnny-lappin-in-a-lifetime-from-hozier-to-u2\/51vfmlzcml-_sx331_bo1204203200_\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/51vfmlZCML._SX331_BO1204203200_.jpg?fit=333%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"333,499\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"51v+fmlZCML._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/51vfmlZCML._SX331_BO1204203200_.jpg?fit=333%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50886 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/51vfmlZCML._SX331_BO1204203200_.jpg?resize=333%2C499&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"499\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There&#8217;s also the small matter of the music publishing business in Ireland, including IMRO, of which he was a founding board member. Before Johnny Lappin, Irish artists weren&#8217;t getting a fair deal in terms of what money was owed them, because there wasn&#8217;t a stand-alone music publishing company dedicated to Irish artists, and music played in Ireland &#8211; it had previously been run out of the UK, so naturally the focus wasn&#8217;t on Ireland, and there wasn&#8217;t the grassroots knowledge of the Irish music industry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So now, as he says in the foreword, and in answer to the question he&#8217;s most often asked, &#8220;how did you get into the music industry&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve decided to write this missive in answer to that question and to set down this account before I&#8217;ve forgotten all the stories and characters I&#8217;ve encountered along the journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There&#8217;s a lot of name-dropping, but it&#8217;s done in a humble fashion, and it&#8217;s all part and parcel of Johnny&#8217;s day to day life. You get an idea that this humility is part of how he&#8217;s managed to do so well in his career &#8211; he&#8217;s maintained that sense of wonder and at the same time, a spirit of adventure, and somehow a sixth sense to know when to move on to the next phase in his career. And what a career it&#8217;s been! Starting out in bands, Lappin moved into music promotion, and then into music publishing. He&#8217;s served as we said on IMROs board, he&#8217;s lectured at MIX (&#8220;Music Industry Xplained&#8221;, founded by his daughter Suzanne and now overseen by Hotpress Magazine), and all the while, he&#8217;s been squarely in the corner of Irish musicians and songwriters, fighting for their rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;In A Lifetime &#8211; From Hozier To U2&#8217; is 18 chapters of incredible writing, that will hook you right from the word go. Lappin suggests he&#8217;s not a natural writer; but he&#8217;s certainly got more than a story or two to tell, and he shares them in a compelling fashion, educating the reader along the way. It made us wish we&#8217;d been able to do MIX when he was lecturing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;In A Lifetime &#8211; From Hozier To U2&#8217;, is available from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/179664403X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon<\/a>, and in bookstores from today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Lappin takes us through his incredible career and educates us along the way about the Irish music industry, in his new book, &#8216;In A Lifetime &#8211; From Hozier To U2&#8217;, in bookshops today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":50885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8297,7,21452],"tags":[8304,21892,3332,21896,1850,21894,126,369,21891,21895,12,21893,171,172],"class_list":["post-50883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-music","category-reviews-books","tag-autobiography","tag-celtic-woman","tag-clannad","tag-hot-press-magazine","tag-hozier","tag-imro","tag-ireland","tag-irish","tag-johnny-lappin","tag-mix","tag-music","tag-music-publishing","tag-u2","tag-van-morrison"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-deH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51209,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/07\/in-a-lifetime-we-ask-johnny-lappin-about-his-life-career-and-music-publishing\/","url_meta":{"origin":50883,"position":0},"title":"In A Lifetime: We Ask Johnny Lappin About His Life, Career, And Music Publishing","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"09\/07\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Following on from her review of his new book, 'In A Lifetime - From Hozier To U2', Lisa took the opportunity to send over a few questions to legendary Irish music publisher Johnny Lappin to ask him about his book, and his career.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Interviews&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Interviews","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/interviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JohnnyLappin-Cover-3-1-e1537524663124.jpg?fit=1201%2C1150&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JohnnyLappin-Cover-3-1-e1537524663124.jpg?fit=1201%2C1150&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JohnnyLappin-Cover-3-1-e1537524663124.jpg?fit=1201%2C1150&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JohnnyLappin-Cover-3-1-e1537524663124.jpg?fit=1201%2C1150&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JohnnyLappin-Cover-3-1-e1537524663124.jpg?fit=1201%2C1150&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":45486,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/01\/jeremy-parsons-why-is-the-bluebird-blue\/","url_meta":{"origin":50883,"position":1},"title":"Jeremy Parsons &#8211; 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