Garth Brooks fever has well and truly gripped Ireland in the last week with the US country star playing three of his five sold-out shows at Croke Park last weekend.
He plays two more this weekend with over 150,000 more fans ready to pack GAA HQ for the final two dates.
The concerts come eight years after a licencing debacle caused Brooks to cancel all five of his sold out shows in 2014, something he says broke his heart.
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Garth Brooks: Coming Home, a documentary charting the Friends In Low Places' love affair with Ireland and those 2014 woes, airs tonight on Virgin Media television.
Paul Quinn travels to Baton Rouge to catch up with the stadium tour before it arrives on Irish shores and in Nashville, meets with songwriters and musicians who worked with the country star on some of his biggest hits.
Pat Alger, the co-writer of 'The Thunder Rolls' and 'Unanswered Prayers' met Garth in the early 80s and says: "I thought he was a kid, and I thought he looked like John Wayne. He was playing somewhere downtown, it was a really funky place, no one really knew who he was, but he had the audience in the palm of his hands."
Over the next decade he became one of country music's biggest stars but surprisingly, it's across the Atlantic where he found his most devoted and passionate fans, and a home away from home, in Ireland.
Kent Blazy, co-writer of 'If Tomorrow Never Comes' came to see Garth perform in Ireland in 1994. "I just started crying... the power of music in another country and they know all the words, it totally changed what I thought music could do."
From his failed Chris Gaines experiment in 1999 and his ill-fated Croke Park shows in 2014, Garth Brooks' career hasn't been without its challenges, but in 2022 he's ending his touring career where he feels most at home, here in Ireland.
‘Garth Brooks: Coming Home’ airs on Tuesday, September 13 at 9pm on Virgin Media One and Virgin Media Player.
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