Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
| Production | Roger Randall-Cutler | Producer |
| Writing | Roddy Doyle | Novel |
| Editing | Gerry Hambling | Editor |
| Writing | Roddy Doyle | Screenplay |
| Writing | Ian La Frenais | Screenplay |
| Production | Lynda Myles | Producer |
| Writing | Dick Clement | Screenplay |
| Directing | Alan Parker | Director |
| Camera | Gale Tattersall | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Wilson Pickett | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | David Appleby | Still Photographer |
| Production | Souter Harris | Executive Producer |
| Production | Tom Rosenberg | Executive Producer |
| Production | Ros Hubbard | Casting |
| Production | Marc Abraham | Co-Producer |
| Art | Arden Gantly | Art Direction |
| Art | Mark Geraghty | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Penny Rose | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Peter Frampton | Makeup Supervisor |
| Production | Ian La Frenais | Co-Producer |
| Production | John Hubbard | Casting |
| Production | David Wimbury | Line Producer |
| Production | Armyan Bernstein | Executive Producer |
| Art | Brian Morris | Production Design |
| Production | Dick Clement | Co-Producer |
| Art | Karen Brookes | Set Decoration |
