Deacon Blue

Blue.

Deacon Blue.

It is Deacon Blue.

Yes, you get a point for two.

Before she married David Beckham in 1999, what was the last name of Posh Spice?

Marilyn was born in 1962, British pop singer who also rose up in the 1980s in the New Romantic Movement, had a hit single called Calling Your Name.

James Prime was born in 1960, Scottish musician who was the keyboard arranger for the group Deacon Blue.

Emily Jones was born in 2004, drummer for the family pop rock band SM6.

Chloe was born in 1996, real name Chloe Ann Latimer.

Oh, my God.

Deacon Blue.

That was a pop group that came along and went, didn't they? I don't even know who that is.

They're terrible, that's why.

I'm going to put a link to that in this podcast description and I'll post a link on my social media as well.

If you've enjoyed this blether and you fancy listening to more conversations with other Scottish music favourites, there are episodes of I Kick Up The Arts with, let me think, Della Meat Trees, Justin Curry, Deacon Blue, Teenage Fan Club's Norman Blake, Emma Pollock, Horse and loads more, including Catherine Joseph and Lomond Campbell, which also has a fair share of synth chat, as does the episode with King Creosote.

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But I think if I had to, like, choose a favorite song, it's either going to be...

Deacon Blue or Steely

Dan

or Peg yeah by Steely Dan damn Steely Dingus yeah Steely Dongle

Blue? Was it Deacon

Blue? Did you meet Derek McInnes at Deacon Blue? I

met Derek McInnes at Deacon Blue.

It was before a ball was kicked in anger.

It was before the season kind of kicked off.

He

didn't always get that same... buy-in and approach whereas McInnes like there was a example where on his unveiling day he was in the Rangers museum with loads of different like sponsors and guys like us and he came right up to us and was just chatting away for five like didn't need to do that and just was chatting

away he did the same with me at the Deacon Blue concert he came up to say hello

You

saw Deacon Blue recently.

You were bragging.

You've seen Sting live because you went to see him doing a gig with Shaggy, didn't you? No.

What was the name of the American volunteer fighter group that fought alongside Chinese forces against Japan during World War II? The Flying Tigers, the American volunteer group, AVG.

Which American jazz-rock duo recorded "Deacon Blues" on the album Aja, the song that inspired the band name Deacon Blue? Steely Dan.

Which major world religion worships deities such as Vishnu and Shiva? Hinduism.

Why did William Kemmler, an inmate at New York's Auburn Prison, become famous on August sixth, eighteen ninety? He was the first person to be executed by the electric chair.