[6] Dickie Rock and the Miami Showband were the first Irish artists to go straight into the number one spot with "Every Step of the Way" in 1965.
[7] During his time with the Miami Showband, Rock attracted the kind of mass hysteria normally reserved for The Beatles.
Following a third RTÉ documentary (one in the 1960s, another in the 1980s and another in 2006) about Rock and his place at the forefront of the Irish showband scene, he received a lifetime achievement award in October 2009.
[14][15] Rock died at St. Vincent's University Hospital in Dublin, on 6 December 2024, at the age of 88.
[16][17] He was buried in Cabra on 12 December 2024, after a funeral mass celebrated by Brian D'Arcy at the Church of the Most Precious Blood.