Library
People have been getting big licks on Zoom for their tasteful book collections. These are some of my shelves. Tasteful not. The title sticking us in the eye is John Holmstrom’s graphically exciting 2013 book, The Best of Punk Magazine. What we have here is a collection of my written journalism, specifically from the period 1981-87 when I freelanced from San Francisco, most regularly for the BBC and The Glasgow Herald. It was a great period for the paper under its brilliant editor, the late Arnold Kemp. The paper’s chief assistant editor Ronnie Anderson took me under his wing. And gradually I learned how to write a newspaper story.
From the archive:
The Glasgow Herald / April 9 1985
Michael Powell’s 60 glorious years
Rhoderick Sharp talks to the British director whose Scottish trilogy has been rediscovered by Americans and who has recently made a film with the Russians. On a fiercely rainy March…
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The Glasgow Herald / April 1 1985
Respectable return behind the wheel for Moss at 55
STIRLING MOSS got back behind the wheel of a competition racing car on Saturday for the first time in 23 years. Moss, now 55, had his racing career and most…
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The Glasgow Herald / June 25 1985
Beer and bikes lure kin of Forty-niners
Take two log cabins and a general store. Strike gold. Add a thousand hardy, hungry, money grubbing and just plain ornery fortune seekers and you have the most famous gold…
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The Glasgow Herald / March 5 1985
New factory costs Irish taxpayers £37 per head
IRISH TAXPAYERS may have paid £20m more than they need have to attract a major American electronics company to Ireland. Sources in Dublin say Ireland’s Industrial Development Authority has promised…