We deal with b.b.c. Radio stuff. And this white Good afternoon police are searching for 2 men seen leaving a block of flats in Glasgow after shots were fired on Christmas Day It happened in the city's Springburn area and police are still at the scene under Black has more police say shots were fired on a common course and spring Burns' car in place at about half past 5 yesterday and the area was sealed off overnight they're now looking for 2 men who were seen leaving a block of flats at the scene nobody was injured in the incident but the tapes of say that what happened was violent and reckless police are still trying to work at a motive but at this stage they say there is nothing to suggest a link to organized crime there are calls for a British woman jailed in Egypt for 3 years for drug smuggling to be freed or a plumber whose $33.00 m. From Hull was arrested in October with tablets of the painkiller Tramadol she says she didn't realise they were illegal in Egypt her family say her lawyers have lodged an appeal Laura's sister Jane Sinclair says it's a travesty of justice in what they were actually allowed to do so that it appears documented in Arabic for somebody to sign it without them even have an interpreter so from day one this is been a complete nightmare and yesterday in the car she wasn't even allowed her to take interpretation up to get the car to terrorists her it was interrogated there were wrong answers in the search there were absolutely devastated 2 women have been threatened by a man who got into the back of their car and demanded money the 26 and 31 year olds had just finished their shift at the Scotmid store in Riddle street in Clydebank at about 10 pm on Christmas Eve when a man dressed in dark clothes got into the back of the car eventually ran away empty handed. The universities minister Joe Johnson has raised the prospect that academic institutions could be fined by a new regulator if they fail to protect free speech some universities and student groups have banned speakers advocating controversial points of view in a speech in Birmingham this afternoon Mr Johnson said students needed to learn to be resilience in the face of challenging opinions Dr Paolo is a senior lecturer at Aston University in Birmingham at the time same time that we're talking about online abuse and the need to contain levels of sexism and racism around you know the society more generally again to then turn around state universities however you've got to encourage this type of speech on campus. I worry about what actually is going on here and it suggests to me that the university's minister has actually got another agenda the Kremlin says a call by opposition leader Alexina Valmy for a boycott of the Russian presidential election means to be checked to see whether it's legal he was barred from competing in next year's vote because of a corruption conviction which he says is politically motivated President Vladimir Putin supporters have begun his nomination process your research suggests shoppers have fallen out of love with the Boxing Day sales a survey commissioned by the b.b.c. Suggest that dish will post Christmas spending spree is being eroded by the Black Friday sales in November the last 3 months of the year what's known as the golden quarter in retail where shops hope to make the most of their profits. Viewing figures show the Queen's message to the biggest television audience on Christmas Day 7600000 people watched her annual broadcast across b.b.c. One b.b.c. 2 i.t.v. Well as the news now it's time for the sports with Lauren McGee thank you Celtic moves 11 points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership with a 2 nil victory over done d. At Dens Park both teams lost the player to injury after Dundas Josh Meekings and Celtic's Jonny Hayes came together in a tackle his will have an x. Ray on his shin after being taken off on a stretcher speaking before the game Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers didn't dismissed reports linking striker mis Adem belli with the Premier League side Brighton and Hove Albion Meanwhile in the Championship Dumbarton lost 41 to Livingston Harry Cain has set a new record for the most Premier League goals in a calendar year the Tottenham striker had previously matched Alan Shearer his record of $36.00 and today he bettered it by scoring the opening goal against So phantom at Wembley Stadium king then went on to score a hat trick contributing to an overall $52.00 Spurs win and might bite trained by Nicky Henderson and ridden by Nico when the King George the 6th chase at Kempton earlier today that's your sport they receive as the weather thank you largely dry afternoon for central and southern Scotland with some sunshine North Highland northern Grampian in the western and northern are seeing some wintry showers so showers heavy in the far north feeling cold with maximum temperatures of 4 Celsius overnight we could see some snow and some icy stretches in places called night going down to around minus 8 Celsius in some areas and that's b.b.c. Radio Scotland news. Hello I mean rancor 30 years ago something wonderful. Appeared in the world I'm not talking about my 1st Inspector Rebus book although that did come out in 1870. I was living in London at the time and came across a marvelous album by a band new to me Scottish band Deacon Blue album was Rain time and we're celebrating 30 years of reign time in this program. And say. This. Lorraine I know is on the sleeve of ring tone you can get with live in my us but you know for a member of the. I was that was the interesting thing I knew of him I don't think it was until after Green 10 was done and dusted and I think it was John Kaley who actually suggested that you should let me join the band Well Ok with the prejudging tale Yeah you stranger and I was a member of a gym said to me oh. God in the back she's going to go do something you know. What it was going to go off and the it's quite impressive in the ring with fluid starting to let most talk with her in turn for if anniversary this year Happy Anniversary folks like you when you went into the studio to record it was a nerve wracking process that owing to where you're relaxed Are you confident for me it was a kind of life changing plus a side never been to London before and I lived in a flat didn't have a telephone and I got a letter through the talk. From the band's term manager and kind of manager Jill Maxwell seeing the band would like you to come to London to sing on the album and I remember saying they were the snow. I am I going to get in any city on the fly you tired and I got to London and I got from he through to Oxford Circus. I couldn't do it now but I just don't vary. These things and I remember coming to the tube Oxford Circus with my kind interdictions in front of me and looking up at this huge building with your studios was just thanking I've got to go and they did and you know the chords and album then it was just mind blowing really for me it was it was the most exciting thing that ever happened in my whole life and then let's watch this was George Martin's studio right. Now and of course John Kerry was a producer who followed in that line he worked with Geoff Emerick who was the engineer for George Martin and their studio was talking about was always famous because we can't afford to go they have us not really experience but as for John what the works of us what John was there what we'll go there you know and we think it would never have played anything anyway before we go she was there I would say this is a song can you do this and she was yeah yeah and it was like This is a red light went on she went from instead of being kind of intimidated she almost went to another level and I thought wow that's really interesting just came in and well it was a fantastic studio that was a smile of speech beautiful control room it was like a species ship and then this huge life and to go in and sing in the air to the grand pianos and the acoustic was just beautiful when you talk about it. And the feeling of coming back into the control room and Senreich Let's hear it and heating it but for the 1st time and just thank you this is something quite special. When. It was just such an energy as a. Chamber at least so it was like something just desperate to be written as a song that we missed and I remember being. Back in the bigs because and Peter feels that magical and and it's and it was like I mean even if you just play things like once therefore it is going to get said great but it did sag do you get this amazing classical percussion stuff they go and this is musings of a drum that comes on the meter This is brilliant kind of orchestral bass drum and all these little things that work some in the mix that is the energy the live energy was on so that was a song that they change every. Record producer John Kelly You channelize what the good points are about it especially as a producer where the entity of the music is pretty much there is it is the core of it is that it's not you're not trying to fix anything or make something out of nothing really in the music they have was great the songs are great the performances were for China to mess it up trying to get out on record. The 1st d.j. To play the title track with Johnny Walker on b.b.c. Radio one Lorraine's vocals toward the end of that song a just fantastic I mean she's kind of soaring like a seagull in the sky reminds me of that amazing singer who song on talk side of the moon that sort of vocal flying really she did a beautiful job on that the production is really good it's very fresh it's very vibrant but I think it's the strength of the songs and the vocals from Ricky and Lorraine when she contributes and the competency that just comes over Plus the fight it just has a a magnificent thing. It's musical away from now until half past 7 this is Johnny Walker the on. Stereo sequence was said or has a studio in a car and I just presumed that left the cassette of the album in the car and Rain time was playing a Saturday afternoon and of course it was raining in Glasgow and it was Johnny Walker Saturday sequence and I was like This is amazing as actually well as I was like the d.g. Of my youth the the Martin for the record I loved you in the day when I was a kid playing the title track for my dad's record I was like wow the Deacon Blue story began in 1000 it to 5 when drummer to give my point met Ricky Ross he had a band called Ricky Ross and daughter love which I thought was the best name of a band subsequently zeugma Nico who had been in orange juice had a bankroll you can go to last Rick you had to drop the daughter loves We could have been Ricky Rosen gotta love instead of the conflict but I knew he was looking for a drummer because Dr Love was a band of many people and I think he was great with the level of musicianship and beckoning in the band so he wanted to perform a whole different level of backing for him but. So I met him through the sax player not by and he became the 1st keyboard player in the can Blue who stuck around for just a short period a guy called and the bloody who I was at the academy music and with so I was introduced and met Ricky saw him play live and thought wow he's here in a kind of vibrant blue the new jacket and playing this gig with thoughts of love and he just looked mental and I thought this guy is something definitely strange where the scab or something there are so straight I mean been excited by him also Ricky you know if you look at me so it was a quest the 1st the cuts he was moderate and he had a house you know that kind of stuff I was a student and the trainers were holes and were huge and one thing that happened. Only eighty's was that keyboards were very unfashionable and then there was a guy called Rob Andres who had the studio called partly institutes in the so safe which not long been opened I had a job part time job at the granary insurance pub. And all the reader clay guys used to come and market years and dry. Handed me this cassette and said Jim I think you might be interested in this you know so to say it was a regular off his 1st demos with you guys and he says you got to get in touch with him so that's why I did not. And he loved piano and I really some of the piano that you know it and I was like pianos back I was a classical in the conversation with Jim prime completely nuts. And he said it's been a fight outside his house because you're going to get the bends or someone was attacking going to see job and got myself. Of. It and I got the end of this yeah I'll come to morrow and he said You tell it was kind of like still catching his breath and he came down and we start to have some of the songs that were around I mean what I remember was range and he just was keyboard and he started playing this stuff and ever this is great you know this is and he was so experienced can be yeah I mean every other musician you were working with He'd been an altered image yeah and white would join Martin and so he was quick catch but I think and do you know I got together and Jim was really the next person and Jim you know the center he can live I think was somewhere between these all these people and definitely you know the range voiced on these things and Jim's piano playing he were playing to the thing to just make us say and I was in my voice probably you know I think with the key elements to show. You. Now you. Want to call every. Second. Living in London as I was in 1807 when rain turn came out it was. A breath of fresh Scottish air with a little bit of rain mixed in everything from the cover of the photograph showing a slightly. Rainy Glasgow to the songs and say just spoke to me of my home a place that yeah could be wet and cold could be atmospheric but also a place with an awful lot of soul and not took me right back to the music of my youth to the country I grew up in a place of industry and whole human cry also released a debut album seduced and abandoned in 1987 part and Greg Kane if you look at a cover of rain turn which has a picture by the famous photographer Oscar much for all. It was it was Lake lot there was no element of gloom element of tenements not being sand blasted and not being a can a pennant messed permanent fogginess you know a permanent or in the tale would have a part things were changing things were moving the gloom was dispelling the music that we made in the music the Deacon Blue Meade was back joyous celebrating music we want reflecting we want to wailing on the fact that we're we came from was this dark misty place in transition I mean maybe we were because I guess we were part of the transition we were part of the hope and enthusiasm that. Situation and I want you to listen to the music it's pulling both those ways I mean something like you know dignity is a story about you know I guy in the bottom rung of the labor market you know who saves up to buy a boat to enjoy the glorious freedom of the Scottish Highlands and forests you know but it's it's and that's in the context of a totally uplifting chorus you know so I think at the time the reentering came in a tame that we were doing that stuff and the late eighty's I think were part of the the push towards. A brighter future for Glasgow in Scotland Danny Wilson who are based in Dundee and had just released their 1st record meet Danny Wilson songwriter invoke. Gary Clark Scotland in the eighty's new to Clay was a really interesting place Clay a collector there was a human cry I mean before that it was orange juice news associates but none of the bands really sounded like each other they all sounded different blue have got a really unique Deacon Blues sound and that's the thing about album Green term is they had that sound right from the beginning and the singer songwriter with a pair of previously known hearts and minds it's a funny thing when you look at the groups that were coming to Scotland and sort of the 67 and think we could play Danny Wilson for example. The thing is all of those groups had a north one comment one of the main things I think was this real interest in song rain and if you look at any of the sort of contemporary reports of the time and the various magazines that were talking about Scottish music it was very much focused on songwriters you know so Gary was one Ricky was another one I guess Patton Gregg for what they were doing the hue and cry and I mean my name was definitely and not mix as well but it was a bit of writing and it was about you know people who had something kind of intelligent to see that was also had that can a Celtic sort of passion about you know make Scott was another another guy to go always get mentioned and so I think where there was a competition among the bands you always want you want to be the saint if that was a big deal. But actually also failed that you were part of a kind of a thing was happening where musicians were claiming bike song rain in the mid 1980 s. Record company executives would make the trip from London to go on to go looking to sign the next big act it was Gordon Charlton who took an interest in Deacon Blue I was working as an iron manager at c.b.s. Records and a tape came across my desk 3 songs one of which was dignity. And I loved it all I remember sitting in my car sun streaming through the windows and playing dignity at very high volume thinking this is an amazing song I think I've got to take a woman by the name of Sally Param an. A.t.v. Music Publishing who will Ricky's publisher and I want to check them out saw them play a gig in Glasgow then go and convince my boss to sign them and I was Sally Perelman at the time I was a professional manager at a t.v. Music and I signed Ricky I gave his 1st publishing deal this song is so melodic and his lyrics were always so well observed he just managed to convey what he wanted to say and I've always been one to focus on both music and lyrics for me you know those demos I don't believe they changed in any way shape or form from demo to record other than of course they were probably produced he knew that he had work to do and he was never shied away from putting the effort in getting the band that sleepy right of the personnel in the band that he wanted to be working with him to give one point Ricky was still working as a teacher and he got a publishing deal and he can remember him saying to me you know I'm going to go for this one really if you're on board you have to be probably on board because this was it was going to go his publishing the only that was this is just a case songs you know maybe a record a song plate as many people as possible so we kind of went into get the right people and I always want to play universe because I'd seen him play a few jazz clubs in Glasgow and I just thought he was and he's young and I knew the sky's he's so technically gifted as a musician I really wanted him and I used to go and see him playing gigs and look up and it's been called The Complete control you got to come and join us and the fact he was for me of Lorraine's any we. Actually in the band at that point we were kind of all played in the scene gigs in the same media. I wanted him in the band because he's such an amazing player and I knew that as a drummer I'd be so happy having him alongside me you know because our refuge on it was hugely important eventually he said yes and I was a very happy man but Graham joined the band we had lived he was supposed to be somebody else Graham Kelly Graeme killing game was there so in the band he was a he was the coolest guy we'd ever met really yeah he was from his music scene in Glasgow and as cool seen in Glasgow that I certainly had when I came to Glasgow was kind of certainly know a part of and he was just he was easy on guy it was a it was a lovely man but he was the coolest guy we'd ever know and yeah it was and I remember it was my birthday I think when we were in the studio becau