Tenement Kid av Bobby Gillespie

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<P><B>''Gillespie is rock and roll''s Oliver Twist. A punk rock fairytale, razor sharp on class struggle, music, style, and a singular view of the world resulting in one of the world''s great bands. Couldn''t put down'' Courtney Love</B><br><br>Born into a working-class Glaswegian family in the summer of 1961, TENEMENT KID begins in the district of Springburn, soon to be evacuated in Edward Heath''s brutal slum clearances. Leaving school at 16 and going to work as a printers'' apprentice, Bobby''s rock n roll epiphany arrives like a bolt of lightning shining from Phil Lynott''s mirrored pickguard at his first gig at the Apollo in Glasgow. Filled with ''the holy spirit of rock n roll'' his destiny is sealed with the arrival of the Sex Pistols and punk rock which to Bobby, represents an iconoclastic vision of class rebellion and would ultimately lead to him becoming an artist initially in the Jesus and Mary Chain then Primal Scream.<br><br>Building like a breakbeat crescendo to the Summe