RARE TOUR VIDEO Michael Flatley and The Chieftans at The Hollywood Bowl (1987)

Like and Subscribe for more rare video clips from Michael Flatley and Lord of the Dance #FlatleyFiles Before Michael Flatley exploded onto the world stage at Eurovision, he had over 18,000 people on their feet at the Hollywood Bowl whilst touring with the Chieftains. This is important. Michael started dancing at the age of eleven. Eurovision didn't happen until he was in his mid-thirties. So, according to conventional wisdom, he'd started too late *and* was too old by the time he became an "overnight" success. Good thing for literally the entire genre of professional Irish dancing that Michael didn't ever listen to the naysayers, because the genre owes its existence to the decades of hard work he put in when no one was watching. The gap of time between Michael becoming the first American world champion of Irish dancing and Michael blowing the roof off the building at Eurovision is nearly twenty *years.* Ask yourself this: no matter how passionate you are about s