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	'''Robert Bernard Andrew "Bobby" Gillespie''' (born 22 June 1962~~, ], ]~~)<ref></ref> is a ] ]. He is the lead singer and founding member of the ] band, ]. He was also the drummer for ] in the mid-1980s.		'''Robert Bernard Andrew "Bobby" Gillespie''' (born 22 June 1962)<ref>[http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi?nndb=1&omenu=unspeci

	== Biography ==
	=== Early life ===
	Born and raised in the south side district of ] in ], he attended ]. His father is Bob Gillespie, a former ] union official and ] candidate in the ], who lost the election to the ]'s ].<ref></ref>

	=== Jesus and Mary Chain days ===
	Gillespie first became famous playing drums for the influential East Kilbride ] ]. Prior to The Jesus and Mary Chain, he worked as a roadie for ] and played ] in ]. Gillespie was a friend of Mary Chain ] ], who asked Gillespie to join the band after their original drummer had left following the release of their debut ] in 1984. Gillespie's style of drumming was minimal, with his drum kit consisting only of a snare and a floor tom, which he played standing up, an idea he borrowed from the ] drummer ]. Gillespie has also said that he played only two drums due to his own lack of ability as a drummer.

	Gillespie played on the band's debut ], '']'', which was released in 1985 to wide critical acclaim. By this time Gillespie had already released a single, albeit to little attention, with his own band, ]. Throughout his days as a drummer Gillespie had continued to work at Primal Scream, the band he started along with guitarist ] in 1982. By early 1986, Gillespie had played his last show with the Mary Chain and left to devote his attentions to Primal Scream.

	=== Primal Scream ===

	The band signed to Creation Records in 1985, and over the next year, they released a pair of singles. However, Primal Scream didn't really take off until the middle of 1986, when Gillespie left the Mary Chain and guitarists ] and ] joined the band. The B-side "Velocity Girl" wound up on '']''{{'}}'s ] cassette compilation, a collection of underground pop groups that defined the UK's mid-'80s ] scene. After the band rejected the initial version of debut album, '']'', recorded with ], they re-recorded the album with Mayo Thompson, and the record was finally released in 1987 on the Creation subsidiary Elevation. The album was well received in the British indie community, as was its 1989 follow-up, '']'', which demonstrated hard rock influences from the ] and ] to ] and ].

	As the 1980s drew to a close, Britain's underground music scene became dominated by the burgeoning ] scene. Primal Scream became fascinated with the new dance music, and they asked a friend, a DJ named ], to remix a track from Primal Scream, "I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have." Weatherall completely reworked the song, adding a heavy bass groove echoing ], deleting most of the original instrumentation (even the layers of guitars), and interjecting layers of ], including lines of ]'s dialogue from '']''. The new mix was retitled "Loaded," and it became a sensation. "Come Together," the first single from their forthcoming third album, was in much the same vein, and was similarly praised.

	For their third album, '']'', Primal Scream not only worked with ] and ], the pair who designed the sound of the album, but also ] and former ] producer ]. The resulting album was a kaleidoscopic, neo-psychedelic fusion of dance, ], ], acid house, pop, and rock, and it was greeted with favorable reviews in the UK. Released in the spring of 1991, ''Screamadelica'' also marked an important moment in British pop in the 1990s, helping to bring techno and ] into the mainstream. The album was a massive success, winning the first ] in 1992.

	The fourth album, '']'', marked a departure for the band from its original sound, experimenting instead with Stones-influenced ]. The album was eagerly awaited, but was not well received, and it was a relative commercial failure. More importantly, it hurt the group's reputation as innovators, a situation they reacted to with the title track to the hit 1996 film '']'', a return to the dance stylings of ''Screamadelica''. The band continued to work on their next album, entitled '']'', over the course of 1996, finally releasing it to enthusiastic reviews in the summer of 1997. The ultra-aggressive '']'' followed in the spring of 2000. Two years later Primal Scream released '']'', a guest-laden (even supermodel ] makes an appearance) album in line with ''XTRMNTR'', and in 2006 '']'' came out. 2008 saw the release of '']''.

	In January 2010, Primal Scream started work on their new album.

	=== Personal life ===
	Gillespie married stylist Katy England at St. Margaret's Church, ] on 29 July 2006. They have two sons together, Wolf (born in 2002) and Lux (born in 2004).<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.theprimalscream.com/press/nme-15april06.html \|title=Primal Scream . Webadelica \|publisher=Theprimalscream.com \|date=2006-04-15 \|accessdate=2012-01-02}}</ref>

	== Controversy ==
	Gillespie was criticised for defacing a ] poster signed by all the acts at the festival. Gillespie scribbled over this and wrote "Make ] History".<ref name="Israel"></ref> Gillespie later said that he did this in support of ], and when questioned on whether he was ], he responded "There's Israeli and Jewish people who support the Palestinian cause as well. We did a lot of work for the Hoping Foundation to raise money for children in the Palestinian refugee camps and the lady who got us involved is Bella Freud, Lucian Freud's daughter and Sigmund Freud's great granddaughter. They had to flee Austria to escape Nazi persecution, and she believes in the Palestinian cause. To say we're anti-Semitic is a smear, so you'd better watch what you're saying. Because you oppose one country's government's policies doesn't mean to say that you hate all the people from that country. I don't like Bush or Putin or Tony Blair, but I don't hate American, Russian or British people. Most people are just trying hard to get by."<ref name="Israel"/>

	Gillespie was involved in a campaign to prevent a local pub gaining extended hours saying, "I found the repetitiveness disturbing and I was unable to sleep because of it".<ref name="Article"></ref>

	], guitarist in ]'s ] and '']'' cast member, described Gillespie as a "waste of space" after his attempts to organise a Primal Scream tour of the ] were stymied by Gillespie's drug problems.<ref>{{cite web \|first=Sean \|last=Michaels\|title=Steven Van Zandt v Bobby Gillespie \|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/mar/25/steve-van-zandt-bobby-gillespie\|work=]\|date=25 March 2009\|accessdate=26 April 2009}}</ref>

	==References==
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	==External links==
	*http://www.primalscream.net/

	{{Primal Scream}}
	{{The Jesus and Mary Chain}}

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Bobby Gillespie
Bobby with Primal Scream in 2009
Background information
Birth name	Robert Bernard Andrew Gillespie
Born	(1962-06-22) 22 June 1962 (age 62) Glasgow, Scotland
Genres	Alternative rock, acid house, psychedelic rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, Songwriter
Years active	1982–present

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