You may be wondering (though perhaps you’re not) about the title of Blossoms’ Number One album, Gary. Who the chuffin’ hell is Gary? And why did they name their album after him?
As it turns out, it's a reference to an 8ft fibreglass model of a gorilla that was stolen from the front of a Scottish garden centre in March 2023. One of those classic ‘and finally’ stories, Blossoms heard about it on a radio news bulletin whilst out on tour and frontman Tom Ogden had a sudden brainwave of writing a song about the missing ape.
