For a working-class kid growing up in an ailing North Wales seaside town during the 70s, opportunities were limited. But Mike Peters resolved to make something of himself. Discovering A Glasgow Gang Observed, James Patrick’s frank study of inner-city poverty and violence, had a profound effect on the teenage Peters.
“It’s about how a group of people were driven to the bottom of life’s ladder,” he explained to Classic Rock in 2014. “The only things that keep them together are clothes, music, street culture and their friendship. And when they realise they haven’t got anything else, that’s when they become their most creative. I sort of related to that story.”
