Robert "Bobby" Gillespie (born 22 June 1962) is a Scottish musician and singer-songwriter. He is the lead singer and founding member of the alternative rock band, Primal Scream. He was also the drummer for The Jesus and Mary Chain in the mid-1980s.
I want to write a great love song. You know when you hear Gram and Emmylou singing 'Love Hurts'? The feeling: defeated and broken. I want to marry that with an ecstatic feeling, and if you get that sadness and ecstasy together in the same song, people are crying but they're also wanting to put their hands in the air.
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I look at Nick and he's as excited by the new Bad Seeds record as he probably was when he started The Birthday Party. That's inspiring and beautiful. If you can maintain that sense of wonder... If you're still excited by what you do, you're inspired to keep making new music. (On Nick Cave)
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To see Van Morrison walk on stage and sing Astral Weeks was out of this world. I never thought I'd see it. It was like he had something to prove. It was a big inspiration for us to do the Screamadelica show - to see a man who has never looked back do an old album with such integrity and sincerity was an inspiration.
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Screamadelica couldn't have happened without acid house and acid house couldn't have happened without ecstasy. That was the culture of the time and the energy was coming from the acid house clubs. We were inspired by that scene and mixed it up with rock'n'roll but the drugs aren't the muse. They can give you a bit of energy when you've been working for weeks in the studio but the creativity comes from yourself. If cocaine, ecstasy and speed made everyone great then everyone would be writing great books and making great films.
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There's a lot of feeling on it. It's quite melancholic in places but also beautiful, melodic and ecstatic - and I'm not just talking about the drug. Moving On Up has an ecstatic feeling. (On Screamadelica)
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Screamadelica is known as a dance album but a lot of it is quiet and gentle - even something like Higher Than The Sun has a certain atmosphere.
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I loved glam rock when I was really young. Then, when I became a teenager, I bought Jailbreak by Thin Lizzy and The Story Of The Who. Those were amazing records and I still love them today.
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Drugs can be good for creativity but they can also be bad for it. I don't want to be flippant because there are two sides to it. I don't want it to look like I'm saying: 'Don't take drugs, kids.' I've had experience of both.
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Everyone loves you when you've got a hit and when you're on the way down there aren't that many friends around. Value your real friends. It can be a lethal and heartless business. You have to be tough to keep doing it. Follow your heart, be true to yourself, don't do things just for the money and you'll be alright.
He married his long-term love Katy England, creative director for fashion designer Alexander McQueen, at St Margaret's Church, Betley, Staffordshire, England on July 29, 2006 with reception at Rookery Hall in Nantwich, Cheshire, England.
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He has two sons with his girlfriend Katy England - Wolf (born 2002) and Lux (born October 2004).
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
History of the Euros
2016
TV Movie documentary writer: "Loaded" - uncredited
Freaks of Nature
2015
writer: "It's Alright, It's OK"
Music for Misfits: The Story of Indie
2015
TV Mini-Series documentary writer - 1 episode
The Program
2015/II
writer: "Movin' On Up"
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC
2015
TV Movie writer: "Rocks"
The Rezort
2015
lyrics: "Zombie Man" / music: "Zombie Man"
The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World
2015
TV Movie documentary writer: "Come Together", "Rocks" - uncredited
1992
2015
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Shaun the Sheep Movie
2015
writer: "ROCKS"
Music Nation
2014
TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
Elementary
2014
TV Series writer - 1 episode
My Mad Fat Diary
2014
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Dom Hemingway
2013
as Gillespie, "Rocks"
That Music Show
2013
TV Series writer - 1 episode
The World's End
2013
"Loaded"
The Voice UK
2012
TV Series writer - 1 episode
One Day
2011
writer: "Rocks"
Movin' on Up
2011
TV Movie writer: "Movin' On Up"
20 to 1
2011
TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
Kick-Ass
2010
"Can't Go Back"
The Second Chance
2006
writer: "MOVIN' ON UP"
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004
writer: "Loaded" - as Gillespie
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
2004
Video Game writer: "Movin' on Up"
9 Songs
2004
performer: "Movin' On Up" Live / writer: "Movin' On Up" Live
The Football Factory
2004
writer: "Swastika Eyes", "Miss Lucifer" - as B. Gillespie
Grand Theft Parsons
2003
writer: "Movin' On Up" - as Robert Gillespie
Lone Star State of Mind
2002
writer: "Funky Jam"
Disco Pigs
2001
writer: "Swastika Eyes- Chemical Brothers Remix"
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
2000
writer: "Soul Auctioneer"
Complicity
2000
writer: "Rocks"
Det nya landet
2000
TV Movie writer: "Last Train"
Human Traffic
1999
writer: "Come Together" - as Gillespie
Jidder
1998
Short writer: "Get Duffy"
Omnibus
1998
TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
Head On
1998
"Loaded"
Heart By-Pass
1998
TV Movie documentary writer: "If They Move, Kill 'Em"
The Jackal
1997
writer: "Star" - as B. Gillespie
House of America
1997
writer: "Jailbird"
Trainspotting
1996
lyrics: "Trainspotting" / music: "Trainspotting"
Blue Juice
1995
writer: "Movin' On Up" - as Gillespie
Tommy Boy
1995
"Call On Me"
Airheads
1994
writer: "Rocks"
Lassie
1994
writer: "Jailbird" - as Bobbie Gillespie
Twogether
1992
writer: "Come Together"
Pyrates
1991
writer: "Loaded"
A Short Film About Chilling....
1990
TV Short documentary writer: "Come Together" - uncredited
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Teenage Superstars
Documentary post-production
Himself
Beautiful Noise
2014
Documentary
Himself
Music Nation
2014
TV Series documentary
Himself - Primal Scream
That Music Show
2013
TV Series
Himself
Punk Britannia
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011
Documentary
Himself - Interviewee
Classic Albums: Primal Scream - Screamadelica
2011
Video documentary
Himself
Japan Disaster Benefit
2011
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Upside Down: The Creation Records Story
2010
Documentary
Himself - Primal Scream
Shockwaves NME Awards 2010
2010
TV Special
Himself - Presenter, Godlike Genius Award
Do You Love Me Like I Love You: Part 5 - Tender Prey
2009
Documentary short
Himself
Artworks Scotland
2009
TV Series documentary
Himself
Do You Love Me Like I Love You, Part 2: The Firstborn Is Dead
2009
Documentary short
Himself
Do You Love Me Like I Love You, Part 3: Kicking Against the Pricks
2009
Documentary short
Himself
Do You Love Me Like I Love You, Part 4: Your Funeral... My Trial
$14 Million
