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| | “WHAT ELSE AM I GONNAE DAE? SELL ONIONS?” - [Sunday Herald] |
 | | Perched in the centre of a fl leather sofa in his publicist’s tidy side-office (also Madonna’s UK publicist), the 44-year-old Bobby Gillespie is not so very different, physically, from the cartoon rock‘n’roll righteous brother who told the world in his late 20s, back in ’91, his elevational soul music was “an orgiastic celebration of gone-ness”. |
 | | By ’88, indie-pop was over as “aciieed!” culture terrorised the tabloids and by ‘90, Bobby’s pal, the DJ and remix alchemist Andy Weatherall, steered Primal Scream towards the psychedelic soul-dance brilliance of their Screamadelica masterpiece (’91), one of the greatest albums ever made. |
 | | Growing up in Springburn, Glasgow, Bobby was born an extremist, heavily influenced by his Trades Union Official dad (a burly Glaswegian who had ‘love’ and ‘hate’ knuckle tattoos), who once stood as Labour candidate in a Glasgow Parliamentary election, inspiring Bobby to his life-long belief in old-school Labour socialism. |
| www.sundayherald.com /56044 (2934 words) |
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