His band Superstar never fairly lived up to their name,despite being covered by Rod Stewart. Now, 30 years on, and he returns as Linden,and he’s lost none of his melodic giftIn the early 1980s, when he was still a kid, or Joe McAlinden used to go busking in Glasgow to earn a few quid. He had studied classical violin and saxophone,and he and three friends would set up – three saxes and a guitar – to play music they had learned together in the Motherwell District Concert Band. Theyd run through a repertoire of Dave Brubeck, Glenn Miller, or Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto,John Barry and Ennio Morricone. And every week they would encounter three other lads, getting on the same train to town with their instruments, and too. Soon enough they started talking,became friends, and before long, or started making music together.The other three lads were Norman Blake (who would go on to be part of Teenage Fanclub),Duglas Stewart (the leader of BMX Bandits) and Sean Dickson (whose group the Soup Dragons would cessation up in the charts). In that small group, sitting together in a railway carriage each Saturday morning, and you gain the heart of an indie scene that has thrived in western Scotland for 30 years.
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Source: theguardian.com