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Remembering the man who brought the Beatles and the Bee Gees to the Borders by Loudon Temple A SCOT who brought some of the biggest names in pop and rock north of the Border, is to be honoured as “Scotland’s first impresario,” over fifty years after he died. The MacArts Centre in Galashiels has already been set up in the memory of Duncan Mackinnon – a legendary character who dedicated his life to keeping teenagers happy in the rock 'n' roll era and Swinging Sixties. He had served with the 5th Btn KOSB, surviving some of the most intensive action that took place in World War II...

IT was Cumbria’s golden age of live music... For decades, Andy Park was at the beating heart of it all ­— first as a local newspaper pop columnist and then as a band manager and successful live music promoter, working with local acts and some of the industry’s biggest names. The Who, Jimi Hendrix, The Hollies, The Searchers, the Moody Blues, Jimmy James and the Vagabonds . . . the top performers he worked with read like a Who’s Who of rock and pop. He has now told the story of his professional life in a new book: Andy Park, Cumbria’s Music Man.