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The Sensational Alex Harvey
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

The Sensational Alex Harvey

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-10-04
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  • Publisher: Birlinn

Glasgow-born Alex Harvey's career began in the 1950s when he won a competition to become Scotland's answer to Tommy Steele (he dubbed himself 'Last of the Teenage Idols'). He was a devoted family man but in front of an audience he became an unforgettable entertainer - courageous, provocative and intense. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band eventually became one of the most exciting live acts of the 1970s, taking in Jacques Brel, rock and vaudeville. But Harvey's life offstage was beset by tragedy and alcoholism: his younger brother, Les, was electrocuted on stage; his manager and friend Billy Fehilly was killed in a plane crash; eventually, with his band in tatters, Alex sank into a sea of alcohol, finally succumbing to a fatal heart attack while waiting for a ferry home from Belgium in 1982, the day before his 47th birthday.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 279

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

Alex Harvey was active in the music industry from the very birth of British rock and roll. A Zelig-like figure, he won a contest to become Scotland’s Tommy Steele in the 1950s, followed the Beatles to Hamburg in the early 1960s, dabbled in psychedelic rock during the Summer of Love, and joined the house band of counterculture musical Hair at the close of the decade. By the time 1972 rolled around, he had been there and done that, but had never made it big. He was 37 years old and was thinking of calling it a day. Also thinking of calling it a day were Scottish hard rockers Tear Gas. They had released two albums, each with a different line-up, none of which set the world alight, and now the...

House documents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 768

House documents

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1896
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Blacks Who Stole Themselves
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Blacks Who Stole Themselves

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Biographical Sketches of the Hon. the Lord Provosts of Glasgow
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 468

Biographical Sketches of the Hon. the Lord Provosts of Glasgow

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1883
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Speedy Trial Act Amendments of 1979
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 766

The Speedy Trial Act Amendments of 1979

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1979
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Royal Navy List
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 842

The Royal Navy List

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1880
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Cases Decided in the Court of Session
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 952

Cases Decided in the Court of Session

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1832
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Glasgow post-office directory [afterw.] Post office Glasgow directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 918

Glasgow post-office directory [afterw.] Post office Glasgow directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1866
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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