He played for Brynglas and Cross Keys before joining Pontypool where with Graham Price and Charlie Faulkner he became part of the legendary Pontypool Front Row, also known as the Viet Gwent (a play on Viet Cong) and immortalised in song by Max Boyce.
With Bobby Windsor and Graham Price he became part of the Pontypool Front Row also known as the Viet Gwent (a play on Viet Cong) and immortalised in song by Max Boyce.
The club is famous as the location for the recording in 1975 of We All Had Doctors' Papers, a live album by Welsh comedian and singer Max Boyce, the only comedy album ever to top the UK album charts.
The club's strength during its glory days was its forwards, particularly the legendary Pontypool Front Row celebrated in song by Max Boyce.
Max Roach | Max Martin | Mad Max | Max Ernst | Max Bygraves | Max Weber | Max Bruch | Max McLean | Max | Max Factor | Max Beckmann | Max Baucus | Max von Sydow | Max Reger | Max Beerbohm | Max Ophüls | Max Müller | Max Headroom | Max Bill | Peter Max | Max Reinhardt | Max Planck Society | Max Azria | Max Payne | Max Mosley | Max Mirnyi | Max Mallowan | Max Liebermann | Max Eastman | Max Born |
Hennessy's own musical compositions have been recorded by a wide range of artists such as The Furies, Foster and Allen, Daniel O'Donnell, Diarmuid O'Leary and the Bards and Max Boyce.
His local popularity gave him other opportunities, including drawing the cover for the Max Boyce album We All Had Doctors' Papers, and resultantly became the first cartoonist to receive a gold disc from the record company EMI.
Most theatre productions tend to be locally produced, though the venue is used by touring musicians and comedians, and over the years it has hosted the likes of Max Boyce, Ken Dodd and the Kinks' Ray Davies.
Shortly after Max Boyce composed a homage to Tammy Wynette's "D-I-V-O-R-C-E", "The R-E-F-E-R-E-E." in reference to the events.