Bono has praised Guinness heir Garech Browne for giving him a musical education in new RTE documentary Last Days at Luggala.
The U2 singer told how Garech who was a patron of the arts and lover of Irish history and music, introduced him to traditional pipe music at the sprawling Wicklow estate.
Garech welcomed many famous faces to Luggala in Roundwood to play and create music and to write, including Rolling Stones, U2, The Chieftains, John Boorman, Seamus Heaney, John Montague and Brendan Behan.
He had a great love of pipe music, having learned from master piper Leo Rowsome and set up Claddagh Records with Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains.
In a clip from the documentary, Bono explained how as a young musician, Garech helped broaden his horizons and knowledge of Ireland's traditional music.
He said: "I knew nothing about traditional music of Ireland, punk rock was ground zero. The past didn’t exist. And what of it that did, we wanted to erase.
“And we realised we hadn’t actually heard it. We hadn’t heard a great piper.
"It was an amazing moment to sit here in this room we are in at that fire, with this man and have him explain what a great piper was.
“He really helped open me up to something now I can’t believe that I lived without."
Last Days At Luggala airs tonight Wednesday, December 19, at 9.35pm on RTE One.
