"The fairies only left Orkney when folk stopped seekin' them" - Anonymous Orcadian
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Born To Rock... The Catch-Up (Part 2)...

August 11th, 12th & today...

Aug. 11th, 1981 - Alexandria (Sandy) Thom, singer / songwriter, is born...

"Saturday Night"...

Aug. 12th, 1949 - Another Scot, Mark Knopfler, is born...

Dire Straits and "Money For Nothing"...

Aug. 13th, 1958 - Sean Feargal Sharkey (although professionally he doesn't use the Sean) was born... Not Scottish this time, but Irish is close enough...

One of his solo hits... "You Little Thief"...

1 comment:

AllyBally said...

Aw, fuck... I've spelt Sandi wrong...

Ah, well... it's too much hassle to go back and change it now.