BY the time French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte set up the 1806 trade blockade that halted the supply of silk to Britain, Paisley had already established itself as a textile centre home to thousands of weavers. But that attempt to cripple British trade triggered an innovation that would turn the town into a manufacturing powerhouse. Within years, Paisley was home to the third largest corporation in the world and its eponymous pattern had become iconic. More than 200 years on from Bonaparte’s blockade, the town no longer produces the cloth but local leaders hope to pull on those threads to weave a new story after years of commercial decline and industrial drift forced a strategic rethink of what makes a town. The result is an overarching regeneration plan to make culture king in the home of John Byrne, Gerry Rafferty, David Tennant and Paolo Nutini.
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By Keefer
Jul 8, 2021
1970- Beck David Hansen (born Bek David Campbell) is 51 today. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his experimental and lo-fi style, and became known for creating musical collages of wide-ranging genres. He has musically encompassed folk, funk, soul, hip hop, electronic, alternative rock, country, and psychedelia. He plays 12 instruments, including guitar, keyboard, banjo, sitar, drums, and more. The creativity is in his DNA, his mother is visual artist Bibbe Hansen and his father, Canadian arranger, composer, and conductor David Campbell. Bibbe grew up amid New York s Andy Warhol Factory art scene of the 1960s. His grandfather, artist Al Hansen, was a pioneer in the avant-garde Fluxus movement, along with being friends with Yoko Ono and John Cage. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)