Kevin Buckle: Scots singer took Liam Gallagher's famous stance in 60s

A popular pic on the @avalanche_edin Twitter feed this week showed Ian Orr of Sixties Edinburgh beat group The Athenians adopting an approach to singing several decades ahead of a certain Liam Gallagher.
The Athenians' Ian Orr at the microphoneThe Athenians' Ian Orr at the microphone
The Athenians' Ian Orr at the microphone

Normally when mentioned in my column the paper uses a cool pic of them all sitting on a bench but this pic I’d never seen until I was given a copy for the exhibition and the pose Ian is striking is a dead ringer for Liam so much so that everybody I showed it too saw the similarity straight away.

Already famous for being the first Scottish band to release a single, it now appears Ian can also claim to have adopted that familiar stance long before Mr Gallagher was even born!