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Tenement Kid: From the Streets of Glasgow in the 1960s to Drummer in Jesus and Mary Chain and Frontman in Primal Scream
By Gillespie, Bobby
- ISBN
- 9781737382904
- Publisher
- Third Man Bks.
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Reviewed on November 5, 2021 | Arts & Humanities
In this straightforward, confessional memoir, Scottish rock musician Gillespie (b. 1961), who grew up against the backdrop of a conservative British government in a heavily class-based society, recalls his first 30 years. The son of a self-made socialist trade union leader, he describes his impoverished, angry youth in the tenements of Glasgow and his awakening with punk rock during the late 1970s. Gillespie...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
