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The live music scene in Edinburgh in the 60s with John Robertson
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John Robertson was born in in 1945 and taught himself to play the guitar as a boy. He caught the bug for Rock and Roll when on a family holiday in Shetland in 1957- they were playing Little Richard in a local fair ground. Back in Edinburgh, at the age 17, he joined the band, The Saracens, he later went on to join The Moonrakers. Here he talks about the Edinburgh music venues, the local bands; The Crusaders, The Embers, Free Flight and The Hipple People. What it was like to be a support band for The Spencer Davis Group, The Batchelors and The Who. A real in sight into the live music scene in Edinburgh in the 1960s. This is part one of a three part series.
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