Hunter Davies Quotes

“Johnstone railway station was small, neat and tidy, quite attractive. On the platforms, I noticed that the signs also had the name in Gaelic – ‘Baile Iain’, literally ‘John’s town’. It is a recent wheeze by the triumphant, all-conquering Scottish National Party to add the Gaelic name to every station in the whole of Scotland, despite the fact that most of these places never had a Gaelic name or people who ever spoke Gaelic.”
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“His 1984 authorised biography, The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Chas ‘Dr Rock’ White, remains the funniest and most entertaining of all rock biographies,”
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“I was sent to a teacher called Alf Adamson, who had a country dance band that toured the Borders.”
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Hunter Davies
Date of birth: January 07, 1936
Born: in Johnstone, Scotland, The United Kingdom.

Description: Thompson Edward Hunter Davies, formerly an editor for the Sunday Times of London, is the author of numerous books, including The Glory Game. He lives in London.

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