New book - just published!
A nostalgic tongue-in-cheek trip through Glasgow in the 1980s.
Tinseltown
in the Brain
Glasgow was the beating heart of the music industry in the 80s. Scottish bands dominated the charts and our feature films charmed the world.
This memoir is a light-hearted wander back through Scotland’s friendliest city taking in the sights & sounds, the venues, the fashion, the people, the culture and the banter.
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Charming Chapter Illustrations
159
1980s Song Titles to Find
287
Dreadful Puns
Gieing it Laldy
With no mobile phones and no internet, we had to amuse ourselves by sticking traffic cones on statues, singing songs on top of bus shelters, masterminding Hebridean hotdog heists and doing backflips in a kilt.
Taps Aff
The book explores some of the key lessons we learned along the way like:
Why you shouldn’t have your Christmas dinner in the middle of somebody’s dance floor, why it’s best to avoid hitting your golf ball into a car park containing Scottish music hall legends, and why humming tunes in a record shop can turn out to be a terrible idea...
Hidden Gems
You might spot a few 80s song titles popping up here and there. In fact the book is positively littered with them! Some of them jump up and slap you in the face while others lurk a little bit deeper in the narrative.
See how many you can find!
Author Bio
Donald McLaughlin grew up in Glasgow and spent a large part of his early life in Arran. He studied maths at Glasgow University before
going on to have a successful career in the technology sector.
He has always been a keen musician and got the writing bug during COVID when he started recreating the lyrics to some well-known songs in an attempt to bring a little more humour to the world.
Donald and his wife now live a quiet & peaceful life within the Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park with their hairy doodle called Siri.
