Stuart Adamson
William Stuart Adamson (11 April 1958 – 16 December 2001) 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".
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