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Jackie Bird looks back at Scotland's most prolific decade musically, the 1980s.

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Jackie Bird looks back at Scotland's most prolific decade musically, the 1980s speaking to Jim Kerr of Simple Minds, Gary Clark of Danny Wilson and James Grant of Love And Money.

Jackie Bird looks back at Scotland’s most prolific decade musically, the 1980s. What were the factors that helped catapult Scotland’s talented musicians from the rehearsal rooms to the UK National charts. Jackie speaks to musicians like Jim Kerr of Simple Minds, Gary Clark of Danny Wilson and James Grant of Love & Money as well as the movers and shakers behind the scenes that created the infrastructure of recording studios, venues, promoters, journalists and managers that  made Scotland the focus of the UK music scene for that decade.

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