Gavin Friday on 'Saturday Live' with Eamon Dunphy, 1987

[@philiolynott4886]

This is the most 80s thing I have ever seen in my life i love it

[@finolaomurchu8217]

Did you see him on "Naked Camera" with the thick taxi driver? He is a good sport. He was getting pranked, well able to handle himself 🤣

[@scottblack9213]

I hope Friday got handsomely compensated by Hewson for development and consulting on McPhisto

[@GhastlyCretin]

Well, that song was absolutely woeful.

[@scottyovgy2]

😂😂😂

[@PollyJeanIsKing]

Better version: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWeueGVrgc-UfpY

[@davidstankiewicz5834]

Gavin! Love this.

[@Discover-Ireland]

This is brilliant also loved him singing that song

[@Pyappers]

A lot of sniffing coming from both chaps throughout the interview. Good coke in Dublin in the 80s

[@nickbrennan3389]

Cheap dirty speed from holland 😂😂

[@dickturpin1815]

lol

[@mixbic6143]

bang on

[@Colm3553]

@@nickbrennan3389 That's what I was thinking.

[@finolaomurchu8217]

Very posh English accent, Poldark, he didn't pick that up in Finglas. Now, his spoken voice in the interview is genuine, so fair enough.

[@gabbsdad]

Brilliant

[@tristanyoung1247]

A living legend❤

[@willmoore3790]

Can't say I ever heard of him but then again listening to that I'm not surprised

[@GhastlyCretin]

He's more well known for being Bono's friend and he's every bit as pretentious.

[@katoness]

He did that song with Bono on In The Name Of The Father, soundtrack.

[@PollyJeanIsKing]

He did a much better version of the song a couple of years later. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWeueGVrgc-UfpY

[@PollyJeanIsKing]

Most of his 90s output is pretty solid too.

[@JRK2669]

The Virgin Prunes were a great band and very different to this song to be fair

[@CaptNeeda]

“Every man kills the thing he LAVS!” Woeful

[@johnmc3862]

Dunphy with eyebrows to die for.

[@scottblack9213]

McPhisto a good 5 years before it happened.

[@pmacc3557]

I always get the impression Gav was a well connected rich kid trying to annoy Daddy. He re-invents and arrives to display his wares on TV. How do u just get on tv when it seems you feel like it?

[@gavinlyons]

He was

[@scottblack9213]

I don't think Gavin was well to do .. he was brought up on the "Catholic" end of Cedarwood

[@pmacc3557]

@@scottblack9213 oh was Cedarwood a mostly Protestant area? In fairness though, you can't just rock up to D4 on a Friday night unless you got connections or cash or both

[@scottblack9213]

@@pmacc3557 apparently the cul de sac was the Catholic end where Gavin was and the main area up by the shops was were as Gav said "the prods" were - Bono Gugai etc. Gavin was definitely not from a well to do family - his father was a painter and decorator... I would put it this way, a lot of Northside families were very house proud and grafted hard, so from the outside looking in, they had a few quid, but in actual fact they more then likely had a father who grafted six days a week and put all the money into the family - they had a "comfortable" semi detached life, like many people in the U.K and Ireland but by no means wealthy - Gavin could buy records and stuff like that, maybe go across to London to see gigs, but was most definitely a Northside Suburban Dub - kind of like Brett Anderson was in Haywards Heath - a suburban "weird kid" Enough money to buy records and go to gigs, interested in Arts, but definitely "working class made good"

[@pmacc3557]

@@scottblack9213 great stt, thanks for info.

[@martinmcdonald4207]

A lot of the responses here appear to be from a certain type that would not get anything that is a bit different. Could be a generational thing. Let`s be honest here, this 21st century has proven a bit dumbed down when it comes to creativity. Poor kids!

[@fintonmainz7845]

Dumbed down

[@gadai4609]

It was the 21st century that gave us the album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, the TV series The Wire, the movie Parasite, the videogame Dark Souls. It's not all dumbed down for this generation when it comes to the arts, besides didn't adults in the 80s say the same thing?

[@davidchynoweth4007]

Interesting song

[@JDLeonard74]

I played "The Camera Eye" by Rush for a few days and nearly everyone here wondered what the hell that new alien music was I was pitching outa my truck windows. A few people smiled nicely though.

[@besterjack8243]

Man erkennt genau, wie sehr er Bowie verehrte.

[@officialWWM]

He looks a little ahead of his time…

[@mrjefe8927]

I remember him for King of Trash, but not so sure about this one

[@PollyJeanIsKing]

Better version: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWeueGVrgc-UfpY

[@Pinerocks]

Is it Gary Glitter?

[@katoness]

WTF.....LOL

[@gavinlyons]

Eamonn nearly choked his words when he realised the song isn't that original

[@bonesf200]

Is he wearing a Frankenstein mask?

[@noelmaher4633]

Ben Shapiro is a Lawyer, Friday I'm friends with BONO..

[@CaptNeeda]

Bro in his Christmas jumper on piano kinda takes away from Gav’s theatrics. Fuckin amateur hour😂

[@johntuohy1867]

Oscars poem killed

[@MR-mc6rj]

At least if we ever lose Bono we have a spare. Brothers from another mother. In fairness the Prunes were genuine Punks, Bono just pretends to be a Punk. Then again he pretends to be a lot of things. Am I begrudger ??

[@HandleGF]

Tripe