Tragic youth’s song charts

A song written by a teenager who died in a coach crash while returning from a music festival has reached the top 40.

Rise and Fall, by 18-year-old Michael Molloy from Woolton in Liverpool, entered the charts at number 38. It was recorded by his best friend Alex Evans with help from Bestival’s record label, Sunday Best, and BBC Radio 1 DJ Rob Da Bank.

Mr Molloy was travelling home from the Bestival music festival on the Isle of Wight last September when the coach crashed in Surrey killing two other people and injuring 50 more. The teenager’s brother, Joe, said of the song: “It was Michael’s ambition to have his music recognised by the wider world. He never fulfilled that ambition so we, his family, are fulfilling it for him.”