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God might have sent Joey The Lips Fagan on a f ing Suzuki, but it was Roddy Doyle and Alan Parker that brought magic to The Commitments.
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Roddy Doyle on writing The Commitments: Whenever I needed a name, I used the phonebook
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I remember the moment when I came up with the name for the older trumpet player, Joey “The Lips” Fagan; it felt like a good night’s work. I remember smiling – grinning – as I looked down at the name on the copybook page. It was so silly, but real. “Fagan” came out of the Dublin area phonebook, and “The Lips” came out of my head.
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