THE Rolling Stones, currently recovering from Mick Jagger's 70th birthday bash and their exertions at Glastonbury and Hyde Park, were just a rising rhythm and blues band when they stopped off in Glasgow to open the new McCormack's music store in Bath Street in 1963.
The London lads were up north on their first British tour, playing two gigs in one night at the old Odeon Cinema on Renfield Street.
The boys, Bill Wyman, Keith Richard, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Brian Jones, certainly enjoyed getting their hands on the pricy gear in the McCormack's store. Mick, never a noted guitarist, seems to have opted for an electric mandolin.
Sadly, with the advent of electronic music and online shopping, McCormack's, Glasgow's oldest music shop, finally closed its doors to customers in June 2011.
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