Going Out in Style LP

Dropkick Murphys built this whole record around a dead man. Cornelius Larkin never existed, but Ken Casey wrote his entire life story into these songs anyway, and the liner notes even carry an obituary from Michael Patrick MacDonald, like they buried a fictional neighbor and invited the whole bar to the wake. Ted Hutt produced it for the band's own Born & Bred Records, it debuted at number six on the Billboard 200, and Bruce Springsteen shows up on “Peg O' My Heart.”