TEN years after his death at the age of 71, interest in the renowned singer and multi-instrumentalist, Jack Bruce, remains as high as ever.
The advent of the package holiday and affordable air travel, back in the Sixties, was an exotic temptation for tens of thousands of sun-starved Scots. All sorts of people ventured to Spain for a week or a fortnight’s break, lured by the beaches and the promise of endless sun. Among them was one Tony Blair.
WHEN Donald Sutherland, who has died after a long illness at the age of 88, received an Honorary Academy Award in 2017, he made a moving acceptance speech, in the course of which he said he wished he could thank “all of the characters that I’ve played, [to] thank them for using their lives to inform my life”. Given that his career spanned six decades, it would have been an exceptionally long list of disparate characters.
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.
