Bobby Gillespie
May 28, 2019
3 minutes
Words: Ian Fortnam
While playing drums for the Jesus And Mary Chain in 1985, vocalist Bobby Gillespie formed Primal Scream, and they released a couple of singles on his old school chum Alan McGee’s Creation Records. Offered a ‘them or us’ ultimatum by JAMC, Gillespie decided to take his chances with the Scream. Thirty-four years later, they’re releasing Maximum Rock’N’Roll, a two-CD, 31-track singles collection encapsulating a singularly genre-vaulting career that has always intrigued and never compromised.
Glaswegian Gillespie, whose stone-faced reaction to Labour MP Caroline Flint, Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo dancing on recently broke
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