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[CORPUS OF DRAMATIC TEXTS FROM GLASGOW] <N CDTG06> <T T6> [TUTTI FRUTTI] <A John Bryne> <B BBC Publications, London, 1987> The Co-operative hearse crawled up the hill towards the newly reopened lair that had been the McGlone family's last resting place since I958. Eddie Clockerty, his cropped iron-filings hairdo covered by a film of dew, stepped onto the gravel and waved the vehicle down. As the Majestics' manager for the past twenty-five years, who better to supervise the transfer of Big Jazza's remains from the hearse to the grave? The three surviving Majestics - Vincent Diver, a Jack Palance lookalike running to seed, Francis O'Donnell, ferret-faced and known to their legions of fans as Fud, and Bomba MacAteer, the cherubic over-the-hill drummer - all dressed in black and wearing Raybans, broke reverentially into their own a cappella version of the Cochran classic, `Three Steps to Heaven'. It was a heartbreaking sound. The elderly priest opened his missal and began int . . .