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“new walking trail charting the capital’s pop and rock heritage“
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hootsman blocked at work, even in lunchbreaK. dOES THE TOUR INCLUDE 49 bRYCE rOAD cURRIE WHERE JOHN lENNON STAYED OIN THE NIGHT THE bEATLES PLAYED THE abc AS WAS ON lOTHIAN rOAD?
Ringo, Paul and George went on the Bridge of Earn but John visited his uncle Stanley Parks who lived in Currie.
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Does it include ECA where the Rezillos studied? The Wee Red Bar? (Hootsmon also blocked as it does not like Adblocker browser add-ons).
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"Edinburgh’s links to The Beatles, David Bowie, The Fall, Dizzy Gillespie, Woodstock, Flower of Scotland and the Eurovision Song Contest are to be showcased in a new walking trail charting the capital’s pop and rock heritage. Famous gigs by The Clash, The Ramones, Bob Dylan, The Who and Nirvana all feature in the Edinburgh Music Tours, which will launch next month. They will also explore the origins in Edinburgh of Garbage, The Proclaimers, The Fire Engines, The Bay City Rollers, The Incredible String Band and Young Fathers. The weekly tours are launching next month to coincide with the opening of a major exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland which will chart the history of Scottish pop and rock going back to the 1950s. Long-gone venues, music nights, record labels and shops will be recalled along with landmark moments in the city’s musical history, notorious incidents, influential promoters and groundbreaking performers. Highlights include visits to the site of the venues where early incarnations of the Bay City Rollers and the Incredible String Band played, the student union where Garbage singer Shirley Manson played her first gig, and pubs where Dougie MacLean, Barbara Dickson, Bert Jansch, Lau and Karine Polwart have played."
Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/music/edinburgh-music-tour-to-celebrate-capital-s-links-to-pop-greats-1-4745685
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Don't forget The Valves:
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I worked for many years with the Valves' bass player, Gordon Scott - until he took early retirement.
Wonder if he ever got round to learning the piano, which he told me was his ambition in retirement?
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Reckon it would be more interesting to do this as a DIY, to borrow an Audaxian phrase.
Start with Incredible String Band maybe and the site of the Crown Bar:
Now the Paradise Palms?
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Good to see Barbara Dickson getting a mention.
I saw Bert Jansch in his late return to fame in the side function room of the cafe royale. He had to ask them to turn the air con off as it was very noisy. Quite self effacing for probably one of he top three geetar players in the world at the time. Alas now gone. I also saw another of the top three geetar players in A vegetarian restaurant in Bridlington called Bean Scene (Martin Carthy)
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Didn't know that about John Lennon's uncle. I wonder if there is a link from him to Currie's Jimmie Nicol who filled in on some tour dates for Ringo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Beatle#Jimmie_Nicol
His brother was in a 60s skiffle group The Zephyrs, and his nephews took the name and had some shoe-gazing success in the 90s and 2000s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ZephyrsPosted 7 years ago # -
@moose why not pop into Currie Library, go to music section and withdraw the slim volume John Lennon in Edinburgh. John had holidays as a youth pre-Beatles then the 1965 tour then with yoko in 1970 when he was involved in a car crash in the highlands.
The uncle, Stanley Parkes then moved up north to I think Bettyhill. This is why there is a John Lennon statue up that way too.
Google corrections - cousin not uncle and Durness not Bettyhill Stan then ended up in Largs, died 2016
Further correction. Stan and John went to Durness on holidays when Stan's ma, remarried the aptly named Bertie Sutherland (I think an Edinburgh dentist). Bertie had a house in Durness. John crashed the Maxi in 1969 showing Yoko Durness or environs
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Didn't know any of that. Thanks
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