Mama's Boys

Irish hard rock trio

Hard Rock band from Northern Ireland formed in 1978 and disbanded in 1993. Hard Rock trio (and at times quartet). Irish releases on the Pussy Records label. The first two albums "Official Album" (1980) and "Plug It In" (1982) are harder rock than the third album "Turn It Up" (1983). Tommy McManus died after a long battle with leukemia in 1994. Lead vocalists have included Keith Murrell (1987-88), Connor McKeon (1989) and Mike Wilson (1990). The McManus brothers come from a musical family; several members of which (but not including any of the members of Mama's Boys) recorded an LP of pop, cabaret and traditional Irish material as the McManus Brothers in 1971.