Scotland 1980s overview

In the 1970s several Scottish performers, including the Average White Band and Rod Stewart (who was born in London to a Scottish family), had to relocate to the United States to experience wide-reaching success. At the turn of the 1980s, however, a small but significant music scene developed in both Scotland’s official capital, Edinburgh, and its commercial and industrial capital, Glasgow, as a number of Scots celebrated one of the most revered tenets of postpunk...