Singer says sorry for headdress blunder
Scots singer Fish has apologised for wearing a Native American headdress.
The former Marillion frontman hosts Fish On Friday, an online show filmed in his converted recording studio home near Haddington, East Lothian.
A viewer complained about a performance accompanying his cover version of Boston Tea Party, originally a hit for The Sensational Alex Harvey Band in 1976.
Fish, whose real name is Derek Dick, said: “I’m 63 years old this year and I was brought up in a different world to the one we’re living in now.
“Somebody pointed out that when I did Boston Tea Party I was basically misappropriating culture.
“I’m very sorry if somebody was upset by that. People have to go through a lot of rights to earn the right to wear it and I was wearing it in an inappropriate manner.”
The musician said he found the headdress behind a sofa. He added: “I remembered that I wore it in 1993 and the reason I wore it was the reference to the Boston Tea Party.
“It was done for a reason because on December 16, 1773, a bunch of American patriots invaded American ships, they weren’t British ships, to take away tea.
“The people that did this, many of them were dressed up as Native Americans.”
A football anthem from nearly 40 years ago is making a comeback in a new film about Sir Alex Ferguson.
European Song, written by the late Scottish composer Harry Barry, celebrated Aberdeen FC’S victory in the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1983.
Now it’s in the documentary Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In, which was directed by Ferguson’s son Jason as the football legend recovered from a brain haemorrhage in 2018.
Sir Alex said: “Losing my memory was my biggest fear when I suffered the haemorrhage.
“In the making of the film I was able to revisit the most important moments of my life, good and bad.
“Having Jason direct the film has ensured an honest and intimate account.”
Jim Leighton, Gordon Strachan, Alex Mcleish, Willie Miller, Mark Mcghee and winning scorers Eric Black and John Hewitt all sang on the record.
It was pressed as a 7in single in the Dons’ red and white colours and had to be reissued when initial supplies of 100,000 copies ran out.
The documentary Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In premieres at the Glasgow Film Festival on March 6 and will be shown in cinemas from May 27 if restrictions are lifted, and on Amazon Prime Video from May 29.