Dancing in the Streets
eBook - ePub

Dancing in the Streets

The Classic Glasgow Memoir

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Dancing in the Streets

The Classic Glasgow Memoir

About this book

This is Glasgow journalist Cliff Hanley's sparkling, unsentimental and uproariously funny account of growing up in the Gallowgate and then Shettleston in the 1920s and 1930s and his working life as a radio broadcaster and journalist in the 1940s and 1950s. A natural-born raconteur with a marvellous ear for dialect, Hanley has an extraordinary ability to bring alive the people and places to give a vibrant snapshot of Scotland's largest city.These razor-sharp observations of times log past cover a huge range of themes, from family life, art and showbiz to more weightier topics such as politics, sex, TB and what it was like to be a conscientious objector during the Second World when Hanley's brothers and friends were all overseas serving in the armed forces. But the grittier episodes are always leavened with irrepressible humour, and the true Glasgow spirit shines through.

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Information

Publisher
Birlinn
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781780278902
eBook ISBN
9781788857291
Subtopic
Media & Communications Industry

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Authorā€™s Foreword
  7. Thereā€™s Something Out There
  8. A Breathless Hush in the Close Tonight
  9. Shopped
  10. Blood and the Demon
  11. High Living
  12. The Bridge
  13. Somebodyā€™s Wean Is Lost
  14. I Am The Ghost of Gogar
  15. Not on a Lamp-post, Surely
  16. The Secret Life of the Baron
  17. Jessie, Ah, Jessie
  18. Hereā€™s the Lions
  19. That Music Stuff
  20. Okay, Well, Draw!
  21. A Friend Is a Friend
  22. Roosty Pockets
  23. Never Look at Your Face
  24. You Learn Things, Travelling
  25. Have You Ever Been a Public?
  26. The Gutters Will Run with Tea
  27. Hard-bitten News-hawk
  28. You Should Have Listened, Lily
  29. Green and Pleasant
  30. Donā€™t Call Me, I Wonā€™t Call You
  31. Smash Hit
  32. Dodging the Column
  33. Cats Are People Too
  34. Courting Is Pleasure
  35. Dad Wouldnā€™t Like It, Beloved
  36. Whose Conscience Is This, Anyway?
  37. One Has a Duffy at the Auld Chantinā€™ Gemme
  38. These Are Prison Bars, Mac
  39. A Wee Refreshment
  40. Life Is a Gamble, if You Can Find a Bookie
  41. The Purest Diamond
  42. They Should Subsidize It, Itā€™s Good for the Country
  43. The Thin Red Line
  44. Who the Hell Are You Calling a Celebrity?
  45. The Rich Free Life
  46. The Link Who Was Rarely Missing
  47. Who, the Drummer?
  48. Hark at Sonny Boy, Mammy Mine
  49. Thomas Morgan, Esq.
  50. Billies and Dans
  51. Small Change, Big Change
  52. So Strange a Thing to Die
  53. Small Change, No Change
  54. Birlinn