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REVOLVER:‘I WAS rolling a joint in a club in New York and Jack White came over to me and asked me to make a record with him.” It’s the sort of sentence only one person could have uttered, writes BRIAN BOYD

We all know that Irish musical Zelig BP Fallon can talk the talk but he’s also walked the walk: working with The Beatles’ Apple label in the 1960s, being T Rex’s press officer, working with Led Zeppelin, representing Ian Dury, managing Johnny Thunders, touring with U2 and now, with Alan McGee, globe-trotting around with the “Death Disco” club night.