Music fans have spoken - the contenders for a Scottish Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Published Some of the biggest names in Scottish music are supporting a bid to take over Glasgow's troubled Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) and revamp it as a Scottish Rock and Roll Music Hall of Fame. The group ScotsRock says it wants to take over the building in Sauchiehall Street and turn it into a hub which celebrates Scotland's contribution to global music. Midge Ure, whose career spans Ultravox, Band Aid and Live Aid, has agreed to become the inaugural Patron of ScotsRock.
The project has attracted the support of Lulu, Jim Kerr of Simple Minds, Travis and Del Amitri. We asked you to get in touch via BBC Your Voice to tell us who you thought should be included in a Scottish Hall of Fame and were overwhelmed by your responses. Here is a small selection of your suggestions.
Big Country Eighties rockers Big Country were suggested by a few readers. They were formed in Dunfermline in 1981 by lead singer and guitarist Stuart Adamson (formerly of the Skids). Their debut album The Crossing (1983) reached number three in the UK and delivered their only US Top 40 hit, "In a Big Country".
Adamson took his own life in Hawaii in December 2001. Annie Lennox (Eurythmics) Annie Lennox, from Aberdeen, is a singer songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving some success in the 1970s as part of the new wave band The Tourists, she and fellow musician Dave Stewart went on to achieve international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics.
Lennox then went on to have a successful solo career. In 2011 she was appointed an OBE for her "tireless charity campaigns and championing of humanitarian causes". Bay City Rollers The Bay City Rollers are a Scottish pop rock band known for their worldwide teen idol popularity in the 1970s.
They were called the "tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh", and sold an estimated 120–300 million records worldwide, making them one of the best selling musical acts of all time globally. Famous hits included Bye, Bye, Baby and Shang-a-Lang. Among those who nominated the band was Gavin Murray, from Kilmacolm, who said Scottish rock music has a global appeal.
He said a hall of fame "would certainly become a strong magnet for tourists... adding a certain boost to the economic vibrancy Sauchiehall Street needs and deserves". Carolyn Johnston said: "The Bay City Rollers were the biggest band in Scotland in the seventies.
They deserve to be in the hall of fame. We had Rollermania." Skids Probably best known for their 1979 hit Into the Valley, Dunfermline-based Skids were a punk and new wave band. In 2016, the band announced a 40th-anniversary tour of the UK with their original singer Richard Jobson.
After leaving Skids in 1981, Stuart Adamson formed Big Country and was the band's lead singer and guitarist. Nominated by Jayne Lyle, among others, she said the hall of fame proposal was a "fantastic idea". "Showcasing it like this could be really aspirational and inspirational," she added.
"When can we vote?" Primal Scream Primal Scream were formed in Glasgow in 1982 but their career did not take off until singer Bobby Gillespie left his role as drummer of The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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