theplumber wrote:On the subject..I read Lulus biography a few months back and she tells a story of being on the same concert tour bill with The Who in the sixties and says that when they played at The Barrowlands ballroom she invited them to a party at her mum and dads house in Bathgate St Denistoun....and they went...bizare to think these rock gods were parting it up in the east end all those years ago and I was sleeping in my wee bed a few miles up the road in sunny Barlanark..........rock on ya bass.......
On the subject or world famous people being in strange parts of Glasgow, in 2002, just after 5pm on the day of the Champions League Final at Hampden I was in my mate's car coming up Pollokshaws Road going towards Shawlands Cross.
Just as we're going by the boating pond, police motorbike outriders and the Real Madrid bus come up the bus lane on the inside so we drive along side them. The bus turns at The Corona and heads over by the Battlefield monument for Hampden.
It was weird seeing world superstars like Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo, Roberto Carlos, Raul, Makelele, Hierro, Morientes and McManaman gazing out a bus at Shawlands Cross!