Stuart Adamson

Born in Manchester, England, this true-life working class hero grew up in Dunfermline, Scotland, a town not far north of Edinburgh across the Firth of Forth. There, among the Scottish working class, he developed the values that would later help to attract many loyal fans. His father was an engineer on deep-sea trawlers that would sail to the Canadian East Coast to fish for cod. As he developed a love of the sea and a fondness for the common working man struggling to raise his family, young Adamson increasingly detested the British class system. His father urged him to read and...