Originally Posted by
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Brilliant. When it comes to Michael Marra, the word legend is underused. Met him a couple of times and he was more than kind about my songwriting, playing one of my songs much better than I could, truly inspiring guy. The wonderful thing is he as a TMSTID fan wrote "Hamish the Goalie" about United's McAlpine (and I like it so much better than the, at the time, entertaining "McAlpine's wife") because "we are not Glaswegian about this sort of thing". Died way too young.