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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 . . .