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Who cares if AC/DC are Scottish or Australian? Their horny nonsense is not for me (opens the original)
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As a newspaper columnist, I’ve always avoided controversy, but this one can’t be dodged. AC/DC: Scottish or Australian? Oh dear. Well, first a fact: the backbone of this rock band historically comprised three blokes born and raised in Scotland before their families moved to Australia while they were still young. But, given that these boys became bona fide icons of rock – in your face, take no prisoners, straight up, frill-free rock with sweat pouring from every note – you can see why Aussies mig
Fife lothario Jack Vettriano certainly liked painting with a wee view to voyeurism (opens the original)
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IN an unusual break with recent tradition, this week’s Icon was neither born in England nor educated privately nor upper class. Indeed, Jack Vettriano was a proletarian Fifer. So we must ask: what was someone from Methil doing painting butlers and posh peeps in evening dress? I’ll tell you what he was doing: getting rich. His most famous painting, and the best selling art print in Britain, The Singing Butler, sold at auction for £744,800. At one point, he was making half a million squids a year
Socialist Naomi Mitchison came from a posh family but disliked being called âLadyâ (opens the original)
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THIS weekâs Icon, a novelist and poet widely described as âa doyenne of Scottish literatureâ, was a woman of contradictions. Born into a posh family and entitled to be called Lady, Naomi Mitchison CBE was a red-hot socialist. An early supporter of birth control, she had seven children. She wrote 70, 80 or 90 books (accounts vary), including historic novels, science fiction, travelogues and memoirs. In addition, she was a farmer, honorary mother of a Botswana tribe, county councillor, parli
Scots 'Hendrix of acoustic guitar' Bert Jansch was actually never one for showing off (opens the original)
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Dubbed by Neil Young 'the Jimi Hendrix of acoustic guitar', this week’s Icon influenced a host of rockers and popsters including Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Johnny Marr, Paul Simon, Donovan, Pete Townsend, Devendra Banhart, Pete Doherty, Bernard Butler and Beth Orton. However, with the exception of Page, no one else mastered his distinctive, relaxing, melancholy, ambling style powered by rugged fingerpicking and blues-bent notes. Described by the Los Angeles Times as “an inveterate outsider, wary
Scottish conductorâs pacifist views saw him banned by BBC (opens the original)
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THIS weekâs Icon was named for a mythical Thracian bard who was a dab hand with a lute. Orpheus community choirs now exist internationally but first took their name from the legendary Glasgow Orpheus Choir, led by inspirational, if demanding, conductor Sir Hugh Roberton [CORR]. This ensemble gave private performances by royal command at Balmoral, and entertained prime ministers and ambassadors at Downing Street and Chequers. But in itself it formed a classless society, completely harmonious in
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