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arted nursery rhymish sing songs with sister rose that had the ability to set the charts alight with all the brilliance and colour of the rockefeller christmas tree a product very much of its time there s a riot goin on is a downbeat record which reflected the singer s move from east coast to west and found him more interested in the peripheral recreational activities of yr average 70s musician than the music itself the coke and the women and the coke and the women sony in a desperate act to have new product on sale stuck out a greatest hits album it s a beauty but you ll know that already sly had enough credit in the metaphorical bank with the label that they allowed him to indulge himself but he was now cancelling concerts and had taken up with the black panthers who not only were keen to manage him they were keen to manage him in a particular way employing heavies and underworld gangsters to keep certain people away from sly his bandmates included with the new album so far from stone s immediate thoughts drummer greg errico upped sticks uh huh and left and when the band eventually did book studio time stone would record his own parts when the group wasn t there going into the studio after hours erasing what had been laid down that day and re doing it like a proto prince in his own way and all by himself in lieu of errico stone employed the new to the market maestro rhythm king mrk 2 drum machine unhappy with the pre set sounds stone set to overdubbing two and three tracks of pitter pattering drum machine until he was happy with the now unrecogniseable from stock beats further overdubs came in the form of many many female vocalists all of whom were wooed by sly with the promise of a slot on his new album in return for well y know deed done the vocals would be wiped and another hopeful would show up the next night with the same scenario ol sly repeated this multiple times the result was the lo fi saturated murkiness that has since come to define the record it s an album that although released as a family stone record bore the sole fingerprints of the group s leader and yet and yet it has something about it not least the big single family affair and the already mentioned runnin away but also the opener luv n haight sly and the family stone luv n haight https plainorpan com wp content uploads 2026 03 01 luv n haight m4a wafting in on a wave of mid paced wah wah and bubbling bass the track has sly s coke rasp voice echoed above and below and between layers of horns and sky high aahi ng and ooh ing female backing vocals the singer scatting and vocalising about feeling so good while his sister takes the verses pianos clang forever on the verge of being almost in tune vampish fender rhodes ghost chords weave in and around the melody and those layers of horns begin to separate into fragments of the sort of incidental music you might find in quincy it s an astonishing band performance more so given that they were purportedly at odds with one another at the time for an album that puts the stack heeled boot into the fake notion of the hippy dream and a song titled punnily to reflect this luv n haight is amazingly pretty groovy you d never know there was a riot goin on by listening to this the group sound as tight and together as ever and that programmed drum pattern it s extraordinary not entirely artificial to these ears either and not a million miles from the sort of stuff jaki liebezeit would play a year later on can s ege bamyasi an influence on krautrock s metronomic and polyryhthmic very own rhythm king you d have to think so psssst wanna hear the album in all its intricate instrumental glory luv n haight sans vocals sounds terrific take a bow the internet tell yer pals share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading tagged sly and the family stone sly stone there s a riot goin on get this gone but not forgotten hard to find she s got a brassiere march 22 2026 craig mcallister bill forsyth s gregory s girl is the greatest film to come out of scotland no the uk no the world bar none any one random washed out coloured still from the film will instantly stir more emotion more melancholy more longing for simpler times than any other memorial device in existence it will also have the uncanny knack of pulling the entire script verbatim from some well accessed cerebral filing cabinet from under my greying but definitely not thinning hair the film s never ending treasure trove of rich one liners and cultural reference points shared and appreciated by whoever i m with at the time maybe it s because i grew up in a new town in my case irvine which was the architectural mirror image of cumbernauld s jutting white symmetry and undulating green spaces maybe it s because i too played terrible football on an unforgiving orange blaize pitch with a merciless mitre 5 that stung like six of fowler s belt if it caught you on the back of the thigh on a february morning maybe it s because every modern school in the new town area looked exactly like gregory s the real life abronhill high school in cumbernauld and everyone i knew at my school looked like an exact clone of gregory or any of his hapless pals flares skinny school blazers that were either too short or too long in the arm shapeless grey jumpers shirt collars as long as the nose on concorde gap toothed awkward boys with haircuts that fell somewhere between van morrison s astral weeks abomination and your mum s rapid fire sunday night handiwork attempted with one eye on that s life and the other on the smouldering inch and a half of ash teetering from the benson hedges wedged in her mouth if you re of a certain age i daresay gregory s girl will have had the same effect on you from first minute to last i could identify with just about everything in it the mazy pathways that led around exotic corners of the bright white housing estates the chip shop wrapping their 15p wares in brown paper and newspaper the head teacher wafting stealthily through the corridors his bat winged cloak following him like dark trouble itself the p e teacher s caterpillar moustache and whistle that row of hopefuls he has lined up at the trial where dorothy arrives we ve all stood in that row willing someone to pick us not last you all know what i m looking for he says with a serious face a goalscorer and that requires two basic skills ball control shooting accuracy and the ability to read the game the entirety of gregorys girl was like my life on film everything that is except the true subject matter at its core aged 11 when gregory s girl first made it to the big screen the supporting feature believe it or not to the far less interesting but far more decorated chariots of fire i was a good four or five years younger than the characters in the film and nowhere near as interested in the fairer sex as gregory and his hormonally rampant friends it wouldn t be long but for now girls were mainly just insignificant strange and alien not really annoying just gang like and giggling certainly not to be talked to not to be looked at even we had subbuteo and bikes and madness and adam and the ants that was more than enough the music of gregory s girl collected colin tully arguably the most iconic thing about gregory s girl is its soundtrack composed by scotsman colin tully who was given a vhs of the soundtrack free film by forsyth and asked to come up with something suitable its meandering jazz funk and light soprano saxophone stylings are so out of step for the times it was made yet heard nowadays they provide an instant passport back to 1981 far more than grey day or stand and deliver might all it takes is a crack of compressed snare or a tinkle of fender rhodes or the slap of bubbling bass or one of tully s own freewheeling sax solos and i m right back on that blaize pitch or in that dinner hall or in that boring class gregory and his pals had the welcome distraction of early leaver steve cleaning the classroom windows one day i had an excitable long tongued dog running wildly around the playground during a particularly tedious slot of double french with which to while away the long minutes bella and indeed bella or should that be joli joli mme mcglone the music embedded above comes from a digitised tape made available by its composer to a friend and subsequently shared when tully passed away from cancer for a soundtrack that has never been commercially available 45 years on this might be as good as it gets enjoy listening to it colin tully 1954 2021 tell yer pals share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading tagged bella bella bill forsyth caracas clare grogan colin tully cumbernauld dee hepburn gregory s girl john gordon sinclair new towns of scotland 2 comments football gone but not forgotten legs eleven march 15 2026 craig mcallister davie cooper didn t play for my team but still he was just about my favourite player of the eighties as a teenager i never missed a scotland game at hampden and cooper super cooper if you were a daily record sub editor was an ever present in those teams teams carved from squads of scottish football legends miller mcleish souness dalglish who through a mixture of elan and class and stubborn scottish grit regularly progressed to world cups among his peers copper dazzled give davie the ball might ve been the only instruction the team needed before kick off he was to quote ray wilkins a brazilian trapped in a scotsman s body and cooper could and usually did waltz past half the opposition inside of them outside of them the ball tied to his adidas with invisible elastic with a dip of the shoulder and the sudden bend of a well tanned leg he d turn a defender back to front and upside down get himself to the byline look up through the fringe of an outgrown and collapsing 1950s style quiff and stand a ball to the back post for a charlie nicholas or a maurice johnston to do the inevitable cooper had a swagger he wasn t like the players of today those identikit finitely coached superhumans whose performances are tracked by data and details and tweaked like robots accordingly davie played on pure instinct a street player a tanner ba player as they love to say up here a gallusly swashbuckling left winger with a devastating left foot to match he could thread the ball between the narrowest of international defences he could bend it as sweepingly as the corrugated roof that covered the west terracing behind the hampden goal he could crack a shot as accurately and deadly as the most highly trained of marksmen so yeah davie never played for my team but he played for my country and the thrill of seeing him in the starting line up was always a rush they re very different players but i ll wager there are wee guys today who on seeing scott mctominay s name in the starting line up feel exactly the same way i know i do here s a thing davie cooper once dribbled past me i can still replay it in my head it s playing right now as i type this and i was certain i could date the time and place with all the accuracy and confidence of a cooper cross but as it turns out i maybe can t as i remember it we re walking down irvine high street my friends and i it s a friday lunchtime in late may and we re in 6th year at school a month away from leaving school behind forever being senior pupils we re trusted to make our own way unaccompanied by anyone from the school to the magnum each friday afternoon to take part in a selection of sports activities that the school has booked for us there s squash and badminton 5 a sides of course table tennis and swimming and the flumes sometimes we ll just go and have a slush puppy and sit in the viewing gallery feet up against the glass being harmless but loud and annoying to tutting members of the public we all look forward to these teacher free afternoons the perfect sharpener for the anticipation of the weekend just ahead unlike in more recent years this day in may sees the high street properly bustling the shops are full and varied the pavements crowded with irvinites going about their business it s a sunny late spring day and there s a thrum of activity and good living just above the noise of the blue buses that belch past with regularity we ve just passed the kings arms with its top floor wonderland the attic yet to be discovered when from out of the ladbrokes bookies next door pours half the motherwell football team shellsuited in claret and amber and availed of their weekly wages that they ve no doubt staked on themselves winning the scottish cup final that they ll contest the next day against dundee united at hampden park being an upwardly mobile new town irvine has a fancy hotel the skean dhu and it is here that the football teams who are playing at hampden the well the russian national team and the bands who play the magnum thin lizzy spandau ballet will bunk down on pure white sheets of egyptian cotton before or after the event davie cooper is among the group of motherwell players and as they weave their way between irvine s shoppers my hero and i find ourselves walking towards one another i go to my right to let him pass davie goes to his left which is my right and we re left in that awkward stand off that we ve all been in i go to my left davie goes to his right which is my left and we re at stalemate again without a second thought cooper dips a shoulder fakes left but goes right brushing past my hips and schoolbag as he does so and suddenly he s past me i say loudly and excitedly to davie davies davie cooper s just dribbled past me and as we turn to see the back of him cooper looks back and hearing what i ve said to my pal gives me a wee wink what a thrill i hope cooper was as brave with the bookie as he was with one of his many mazy runs motherwell would go on to win the cup the next day winning 4 3 in extra time ladbrokes loss the motherwell squad s gain good wee story that my only issue with it is that i left school in june 1987 motherwell didn t win the scottish cup until four years later in may 1991 davie cooper definitely dribbled past me in his full motherwell training kit that much is true and i definitely made the remark to davie davis yet here i am in 2026 baffled by it all davie cooper like the roots of this story a true natural mystic bob marley natural mystic https plainorpan com wp content uploads 2017 05 bob marley the wailers natural mystic mp3 there were a couple of davie copper related things posted online this past week and without quite clearly scanning the articles i made the assumption that the anniversary of davie s death was this weekend in reality next saturday 23rd march will see the 31st anniversary of his passing so not only is this post probably a week too early it has ...