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3 unusual facts about Michael Marra


Hamish McAlpine

McAlpine also had a song written about him: "Hamish the Goalie", by Dundonian musician Michael Marra.

Michael Marra

He wrote and performed in the show In Flagrant Delicht which was written in collaboration with Scottish Poet Laureate and playwright Liz Lochhead.

In April 2006, having his fingerprints routinely taken by Customs in Washington D.C. – where he was performing as part of Tartan Week – Marra was inspired to write a protest song about Scottish police detective Shirley McKie, who had been wrongly accused of leaving her thumbprint at a murder scene in 1997.



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