Watch Lulu performing ‘Shout’ on ‘Ready Steady Go!’ in 1965:
Born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie in Scotland in 1948, Lulu joined a local group, the Gleneagles, and started performing gigs around Glasgow and Edinburgh at the age of 14. She was quickly discovered by her long-time manager Marion Massey who changed the name of the act [...]
Listen to Alex Harvey’s 1965 single, ‘Agent OO Soul’ here:
Glasgow-born Alex Harvey started his musical career in the mid-Fifties, playing Dixieland, skiffle and jazz and winning a competition as Scotland’s answer to Tommy Steele! In 1959, he started his own Alex Harvey Soul Band, which built up a fanbase through their own local gigs, as [...]