THE Average White Band knew it was going to take a lot to impress Jerry Wexler. Would a giant of the US record industry be interested in their brand of Scottish soul and funk?
Donovan. Retrospective. Released – 2015
The Skids. Scared To Dance. Released – 1979.
MY favourite scene in The Beatles’ classic 1965 movie, Help! is the moment the Fab Four are chauffeur driven home by Rolls Royce to a row of terraced houses in London.
YOU need to focus hard to pick out the members of Travis on the cover artwork of The Invisible Band. The distant figures of Fran Healy, Andy Dunlop, Dougie Payne and Neil Primrose are barely visible. They appear on the album sleeve carefully camouflaged by foliage and trees in a dense forest.
IT’S hard to say no to Jesse Rae. The singer once persuaded me to take part in a music video he was filming to spearhead a campaign close to his heart.
THE torrent of verbal abuse was something I’d never experienced before from a concert audience in Glasgow.
Strawberry Switchblade. Strawberry Switchblade. Released – 1985
IF you require hard evidence of just how seriously Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle take the art of songwriting, simply rewind to January 30, 1969.
WHEN Craig and Charlie Reid boarded a train from Edinburgh to Newcastle they could not have predicted the journey that lay ahead. The brothers had landed a coveted slot on The Tube, presented by Jools Holland and Paula Yates from Tyne Tees Television.
