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Why a face from the past became a success for Scottish crime author Peter May (opens the original)
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The Scottish crime writer Peter May passed away this week at the age of 74, with tributes describing him as "irreplaceable". Here, we revisit a 2019 interview between the award-winning author and Russell Leadbetter. This article was first published on January 21, 2019. A Glasgow office block, much like any other, and very late at night. The fourth floor, home to the branch office of an Edinburgh newspaper, is deserted, save for a solitary figure, a reporter in his late twenties, seated at a type
Ex-Beatstalkers, ex-The Only Ones: Now it's Alan Mair's solo turn in the spotlight (opens the original)
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ALAN Mair has had such an interesting career. Back in the 1960s he was the bassist with The Beatstalkers, the renowned Glasgow beat group that became Scotland's best-known band, the riotous scenes at their Scottish gigs calling to the mind the frenzied reaction at Beatles' concerts. The following decade saw him play with The Only Ones, the influential London-based rock group fronted by Peter Perrett and whose hits included 'Another Girl, Another Planet'. Mair has done much in the years since, in
The painful years that almost derailed one of Scotland's greatest albums (opens the original)
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Following on from the success of their first two albums – Ferguslie Park, their second one, was undoubtedly their finest hour – Stealers Wheel were making plans for the third, in 1974. Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan were keen to take their time and form a band and go on the road. They had written all the songs for the album but then, halfway through the recording process, they learned that their management company had suddenly gone bankrupt. “So that just put the whole thing on the slates”, Raffert
Scottish band recorded three albums and only one was released - but what an LP it was (opens the original)
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FOR a band to release only one studio album in its lifetime – a record that was described as “the most thrilling, chaotic, brilliant and stupid rock ‘n’ roll album” released by a British band that year – seems, with hindsight, unfortunate. Doubly so, really, when it emerges that the band went on to make two other albums, one of them produced by the former Rolling Stones manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, but that both, to this day, remain unreleased. The band was V-Twin, and the solitary record that s
Scottish big beast of publishing who earned the nickname 'McBastard' dies (opens the original)
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Born: August 2, 1949; Died: August 16, 2026 AS one of the most powerful figures in British publishing, Eddie Bell, who has died after a short illness at the age of 77, had a reliably distinctive way of doing things. In the early nineties the book world was aflame with news that his company, HarperCollins, had secured the memoirs of Margaret Thatcher after a fiercely contested auction. The journalist Alan Taylor, interviewing Bell in his London office, asked if he might have a glimpse of the book
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