Kennedy had spent years honing his ear for new talent. He had always been interested in rock'n'roll - he remembers his family listening to Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Roy Orbison. He started searching the back catalogues of Elvis and began collecting records at the age of 12 (he estimates that his collection is about 50,000 strong at this point, and is stored in at least three different countries). He eventually moved from Dublin to London and worked at Rough Trade Records; he was there when The Smiths were signed to the indie label. He witnessed the highs and lows of the rock'n'roll scene there, and when he felt like it had started to die out he made his way to the U.S. He ran Demarco's...
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