Going Home: The Runrig Story by Morton, Tom - 1991

Mainstream Publishing, 1991. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8" x 11. H/B 222 pages, condition is very good. Profusely illustrated with over 200 photographs. Going Home ranges from Waternish Hall to Edinburgh Castle Esplanade, from a single-figure audience in Dornoch to 40,000 at Loch Lomond. More than a band, Runrig are a phenomenon. Their unique songs have become the soundtrack of tens of thousands of Scottish lives, and more and more people throughout the world are discovering this mighty music, spawned on the island of Skye and now threatening to become a worldwide force. Who are the six men who make up Scotland's most successful and yet enigmatic band? How did a good-time Skye ceilidh ensemble metamorphose into today's supergroup? And what exactly is it that makes Runrig so special to so many people? The big issues - politics, the Gaelic language, the land, nationhood - are covered in Tom Morton's book GOING HOME: THE RUNRIG STORY. But the Runrig story is about a lot more: hilarious anecdotes from the past and the present, the long hard road to success which saw tragedy and crisis hit the band and most of all music, and its players. GOING HOME will take you on a unique journey to the heart of Runrig. It is an indispensable guide for the fan, and sets the band in a much wider cultural context for the less committed reader. Profusely illustrated with over 200 photographs, most never before published, GOING HOME ranges from Waternish Hall to Edinburgh Castle Esplanade, from a single-figure audience at Dornoch to 40,000 at Loch Lomond. It is the Runrig story.