TIMELESS QUALITY OF SCOTS STARS

The camera never dies

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Photographer Stewart and music writer Tom release book of rare photographs capturing hit bands before they shot to fame in the pop charts

BY PAUL ENGLISH

THEY laid in a photographer's vault for 40 years, the forgotten photos of Scotland's biggest bands - before anyone knew who they were.

Now a rare collection of fresh-faced stars are being published in a book chronicling the early days before they topped the charts and became the most recognis-able names in Scottish pop.

The Proclaimers, Deacon Blue, Wet Wet Wet and Orange Juice are among the bands captured in Big Rhythm, a collection of lost images created from the files of phogotrapher Stewart Cunningham.

Stewart was one of the best-known photographers on the Glasgow music scene in the early 80s.

He frequently teamed up with writer Tom Morton, who went on to become one of Scotland's best-known music journalists and broadcasters, to chronicle the city's music scene.