Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser following his royal recognition in the new year honours list, and recalled the October 1967 gig as one of the achievements of his local government career before entering parliament.
Sir Tom, who was at the time the leisure convener of Coatbridge council, said: “We used to have groups playing on Saturday nights at the Palais and I was proud that, just when the Bee Gees became famous, I persuaded my – mainly elderly – colleagues to pay £150 for them to come to the town.“Although some thought that was extravagant at the time, they went to number one that weekend [for the first time] with Massachusetts.“There were girls fainting, the town hall was overflowing, and I think it would have been the last time they.
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