Pan Am flight 103 – a Boeing 747-121 named Clipper Maid of the Seas – left London Heathrow Airport at 6:25 pm on 21 December 1988 en…
Browsing: Scotland
Filmed around the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, Long Shot is a deadpan satire about the trials and tribulations of British independent filmmaking which blurs the…
Lulu was born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, the first child of a Glasgow butcher, on 3 November 1948. When she was five years old she…
1 9 7 7 (UK) 13 x 50 minute episodes This thirteen-part drama series from BBC Scotland aired on the BBC1 network in the summer of…
The Maggie is a tiny old puffer boat based on the River Clyde that is nearly ready for the scrap heap. In a last-ditch effort…
The Marmalade began as Dean Ford and the Gaylords, who were very popular on the Scottish club circuit between 1961 and 1966. Junior Campbell and…
Scottish quartet Middle Of The Road formed in 1970 – they had previously been known as both Los Caracas and Part Four – and cut five UK…
Formed in Dunfermline in 1968, Nazareth moved to London in 1970 and released two albums – their eponymous debut in 1971 and Exercises in 1972. They…
Lovelorn, naive and vibrant, these foppish lads from the middle-class Glasgow suburb of Bearsden fashioned post-Byrds jangle and skinny white soul into their own nervy, lo-fi…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 6 0 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This BBC Scotland comedy series became a popular Friday night…
Singer/bassist David Paton spent his early years in Leith (Edinburgh) and then moved to the tough district of Inch, later joining The Bay City Rollers. While…
The Poets began life in 1962 when George Gallacher (vocals) joined forces with Hume Paton (lead & 12-string guitar), Tony Myles (rhythm guitar), John Dawson…
1 9 8 0 – 1 9 8 4 (UK) 31 x 30 minute episodes Debuting on 17 April 1980 with ‘Home Front’ by Sue Glover,…
Originally a guitar pop band formed by early Jesus & Mary Chain drummer Bobby Gillespie, Primal Scream got harder, wilder and heavier as the decade wore on,…
Craig and Charlie Reid were born in 1962 in Leith, a dockland suburb of Edinburgh, with Craig arriving 30 minutes after his twin brother Charlie.…
1 9 6 6 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Into Glasgow airport files a charter aircraft carrying a contingent of the fabulous Bilhardi family, a…
Young Edinburgh lads Will (Vincent Friell) and Ronnie (Joe Mullaney) are perpetually down on their luck – Ronnie works in a joke shop and lives…
Before Punk came along, Edinburgh art college students Alan Forbes and John Callis were in R&B covers band The Knutsford Dominators. Their 1976 venture, The Rezillos, was…
1 9 7 8 – 1 9 9 2 (UK) 24 x 30/40 minute episodes This BBC Scotland comedy sketch series starred Rikki Fulton and ran…
1 9 7 2 – 1 9 7 4 (UK) 54 x 30 minute episodes Premiering on 18 October 1972, this Wednesday lunchtime show from Scottish…