Stuart Adamson

William Stuart Adamson was a Scottish rock guitarist and singer. Adamson began his career in the late 1970s as a founding member and performer with the punk rock band Skids. After leaving Skids in 1981, he formed Big Country and was the band's lead singer and guitarist. The group's commercial heyday was in the 1980s. In the 1990s, he was a member of the alternative country band The Raphaels. In the late 1970s the British music journalist John Peel referred to his musical virtuosity as a guitarist as "a new Jimi Hendrix".

11 April 1958

Born on the same birth date (11 April 1958): Lyudmila Kondratyeva • Wayne Wigham

Born on the same birth day (11 April): James Parkinson • Johanna Elberskirchen • K. L. Saigal • Louise Lasser • Mark Strand • Michael Callen • Michel Riesen • Nicky Pastorelli • Peter Barfuß • Shirley Stelfox • Veronica Pyke • Walter Krüger (athlete) • Zahid Maleque • Àlex Corretja

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