# Stuart Adamson
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William stuart adamson (11 April 1958 – 16 December 2001) was a Scottish guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He was the co-founder, lead vocalist, and guitarist of rock group Big Country, which rose to prominence in 1983.
Prior to that he founded Scottish art-punk band Skids.
'Alcoholism and the music business are brutal; mixed together, they're explosive' – the tragedy of Stuart Adamson
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In John Niven’s engaging music business novel Kill Your Friends, loathsome A&R man Steven Stelfox slashes and burn…
28. Big Country - Steeltown - With a Heart Like Hell
Join the Planet Music guys as they take an in-depth look at the second BIG COUNTRY album - 1984's "Steeltown".
Stuart Adamson's deeply personal lyrics paint a picture of Scottish life in the steel industry from the time of the Great Depression through to the early 1980's.
The team look at the orig…
James Grant interview – ‘Our label spent millions on us - when we left we were £7 million in debt'
In the mid-80s, the London-based music industry was, says Love and Money’s James Grant, this week’s special guest, “awash with cash”. As bands such as Orange Juice, Simple Minds and Altered Images racked up Top 10 hits, much of it flowed north to Glasgow.
One of the “jangletastic” acts perfectly pl…
Planet Music. 28. Big Country - Steeltown
Join the Planet Music guys as they take an in-depth look at the second BIG COUNTRY album - 1984's "Steeltown".
Stuart Adamson's deeply personal lyrics paint a picture of Scottish life in the steel industry from the time of the Great Depression through to the early 1980's.
The team look at the origi…
John Niven interview – 'I turned down Coldplay and Muse – and signed The Mike Flowers Pops'
Before he was a successful author with books such as bestsellers Straight White Male and Oh Brother, Irvine-born writer John Niven, the special guest on Scotpop this week, ran with the London A&R pack in the 90s.
He joins us to talk about turning down Coldplay and Muse because he “didn’t think we …
Bruce Watson (Big Country) interview: 'Touring the world in the 80s was amazing – but you had to be on all the time'
There’s, rightly, been a lot of attention on Stuart Adamson in recent months with the publication of another biography on the Skids and Big Country legend and news of a forthcoming documentary that will hopefully bury for ever the image of the band as merely “bagpipe guitars and checked shirts”.
Fo…
Scott Rowley - Stay Alive: The Life & Death of Stuart Adamson
For the latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast Ali spoke to writer and journalist Scott Rowley to talk about Stay Alive: The Life & Death of Stuart Adamson, his authorised biography of the late, great, Skids and Big Country musician.
Scott explains how he came to be the one to write this book, the ‘authori…
Bruce Watson - Big Country
Bruce Watson in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://bigcountry.co.uk/
Big Country Redux are led by Bruce Watson, one of the founding members of Big Country, alongside the late, great guitarist, singer and songwriter Stuart Adamson. Now, Big Country Redux announce the ‘Eastworld’ album, whic…
Clive Ford (Awrite Records/ex Skids roadie): ‘Stuart [Adamson] gave me the tape and said, "You'll know what to do with it".'
25 years after the death of Stuart Adamson, secret recordings of his first band the Skids are emerging. They were recorded in Edinburgh in 1977 11 weeks after the band formed, with all songs written by Stuart, who died in 2001. What can they tell us about this mercurial talent?
On this week’s Scot…
Sir Ian Rankin (author): 'Some of the greatest Scottish songwriters were Jekyll and Hyde characters'
As he prepares for the release of his highly anticipated standalone novel The Heights, Sir Ian Rankin joins me on the podcast this week to talk about the state of music in Scotland.
As anyone who has read Ian's Rebus books will know, his writing is peppered with Scottish music references – from cha…
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