📸 - credit Brad Merrett For the latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast Ali spoke to writer and journalist Scott Rowley to talk about Stay Alive: The Life & Death of Stuart Adamson, his authorised biography of the late, great, Skids and Big Country musician, which is published with New Modern Books. Scott explains how he came to be the one to write this book, the 'authorised' aspect and what that lends to it, his own background in music journalism, and his initial writings about Ad

A version of this article first appeared in PRODUCT magazine Music fans of a certain vintage are likely to have first encountered Talk Talk in their early post-punk synthpop stage, contemporaries with the likes of Tears for Fears, Duran Duran, and China Crisis; Top of the Pops semi-regulars complete with fretless bass, sharp suits, and a hint of eyeliner. The first two albums The Party's Over (1982) and It's My Life (1984) were very much of that time, and there were singles,