Tutti Frutti
dc.contributor | Kirk, John |
dc.contributor.author | Byrne, John |
dc.coverage.placeName | London |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:54:47Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:54:47Z |
dc.date.created | 1991 |
dc.date.issued | 1991-12-12 |
dc.identifier | ota:1486 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1486 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1486 |
dc.format.extent | Text data A unspecified offline |
dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
dc.rights | Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
dc.rights.label | PUB |
dc.title | Tutti Frutti |
dc.type | Text |
has.files | yes |
branding | Oxford Text Archive |
files.size | 193748 |
files.count | 2 |
otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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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 . . .