1. Robert Gillespie is a Scottish musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.
16 Facts About Bobby Gillespie
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Bobby Gillespie is best known as the lead singer, founding member, primary lyricist, and sole continuous member of the alternative rock band Primal Scream.
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Bobby Gillespie was the drummer for The Jesus and Mary Chain in the mid-1980s, leaving after the release of the band's debut album Psychocandy, and was once the bassist for The Wake.
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Bobby Gillespie's father is Bob Gillespie, a former SOGAT union official and Labour Party candidate in the 1988 Govan by-election, won by the Scottish National Party's Jim Sillars.
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Bobby Gillespie played drums for the band The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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Bobby Gillespie was a friend of The Jesus and Mary Chain's bassist Douglas Hart, who asked Bobby Gillespie to join the band after their original drummer had left following the release of their debut single in 1984.
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Bobby Gillespie has said that he played only two drums due to his own lack of ability as a drummer.
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Bobby Gillespie played on the band's debut LP, Psychocandy, which was released in 1985 to critical acclaim.
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However, Primal Scream did not really take off until the middle of 1986, when Bobby Gillespie left the Jesus and Mary Chain and guitarists Andrew Innes and Robert Young joined the band.
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Bobby Gillespie featured on the song 'Hits Me Like a Rock' by Brazilian band CSS, released in August 2011 and used as part of the soundtrack of the video game FIFA 12.
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The book was released to critical acclaim: the Scotsman wrote that "Bobby Gillespie's autobiography is written with both passion and eloquence", while the Irish Times wrote that Tenement Kid was "a thrilling read".
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Bobby Gillespie is credited with guitar on the track "Gravitational Waves ", the b-side to the Record Store Day 2016 release Mantra for a State of Mind.
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Bobby Gillespie married stylist Katy England at St Margaret's Church, Betley on 29 July 2006.
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Bobby Gillespie defaced a Make Poverty History poster signed by all the acts at the Glastonbury Festival in 2005.
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In 2019, Bobby Gillespie called Madonna a "total prostitute" for agreeing to perform at that year's Eurovision which took place in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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In January 2021, Bobby Gillespie declared his support for the Scottish independence movement, saying that Scotland's exit from the UK was "inevitable", however he said "I don't see myself as a nationalist, as that leads to Fascism".