John Byrne (playwright)
Videos
John Patrick Byrne was a Scottish playwright, screenwriter, artist and designer. He wrote The Slab Boys Trilogy, plays which explore working-class life in Scotland, and the TV dramas Tutti Frutti and
2013 painted ceiling in the King's Theatre, Edinburgh
Gerry Rafferty
Videos
Gerald Rafferty was a Scottish singer-songwriter. He was a founding member of Stealers Wheel, whose biggest hit was "Stuck in the Middle with You" in 1973. His solo hits in the late 1970s included "Ba
John Byrne (playwright)
…Clifford Odets' The Country Girl (Apollo Theatre 1983). Some of Byrne's best-known art works in their day were the album covers he created for friend Gerry Rafferty and his former bands the Humblebums and Stealers Wheel, among them the covers for City to City and Night Owl. Byrne had an unsuccessful exhibition of…
Rafferty performing in 1980
Foxbar in Paisley, Renfrewshire, where Rafferty grew up
Hugh Murphy produced seven of Rafferty's solo albums.
Several of Rafferty's solo albums, including City to City and Night Owl, and parts of Snakes and Ladders and Sleepwalking, were recorded at Chipping Norton Recording Studios