Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
Alan Parker | Director |
Dick Clement | Screenplay |
Ian La Frenais | Screenplay |
Roddy Doyle | Screenplay |
Lynda Myles | Producer |
Roger Randall-Cutler | Producer |
Wilson Pickett | Original Music Composer |
Gale Tattersall | Director of Photography |
Gerry Hambling | Editor |
Roddy Doyle | Novel |