THE night of my 60th birthday in 2015 turned out to be a little bit special. I celebrated this milestone by going to see The Bay City Rollers play live at Barrowland in Glasgow. During the concert, I got the surprise of my life when I was inducted into the Barrowland Hall of Fame … becoming the first music journalist to receive such an accolade. On stage – before the 1500-capacity, tartan clad audience – singer Les McKeown presented me with a handsome trophy. Minutes later he was singing a song whose chorus went:
“Well we sang Shang-A-Lang/As we ran with the gang/Doin’ doo wop be dooby do ay.”