U2 in 1987 Newsquest image Bowie in 1983 image Alan McDonald Rolling Stones 2018 PA image IT was the summer of 1995 and REM, then one of the world’s biggest bands, had just played Murrayfield stadium, in Edinburgh. The show had gone well and the Scottish Rugby Union, the stadium’s owners, said it was not ruling out the possibility of further rock gigs taking place there.
The 80th anniversary of the D-day landings is approaching
THE major international exhibition that opened at the Burrell Collection last week – Discovering Degas: Collecting in the Time of William Burrell – is the latest chapter in the extraordinary success story that has been unfolding for four decades in a corner of Glasgow’s Pollok Country Park.
THE major international exhibition that opened at the Burrell Collection last week - Discovering Degas: Collecting in the Time of William Burrell - is the latest chapter in the extraordinary success story that has been unfolding for four decades in a corner of Glasgow’s Pollok Country Park.
AS a rock critic remarked the other week, this is a great moment to be the Pet Shop Boys. And, he might have added, it’s a great moment to be a fan of the Pet Shop Boys.
IT takes a lot of ingenuity to reimagine the guitar, an instrument that has been around for rather a long time. But a leading Scottish musician and composer, Kris Lennox, has managed just that.
Goldberg's, it seems, was the sort of store that could stand in for the whole of Glasgow, according to at least one person who was fond of visiting the Candleriggs store.
On Monday, November 18, 1963, the current affairs programme broadcast a special edition from Glasgow, on the back of a government White Paper on public investment in the UK. Its presenters included Richard Dimbleby and Robin Day, while journalist Michael Barratt introduced a film report about Glasgow’s youth. Barratt, who had attended Paisley Grammar School, knew Glasgow well, having begun his journalistic career on a bestselling Sunday tabloid there.
WILLIE Limond, who has died at the age of 45, was an exciting, skilled and tenacious boxer, a genuine crowd-pleaser. He never knew when to quit. In November 2011, Limond, then 32, was soundly beaten by Ant
