A Consultation with Alasdair Gillies

Dr Alasdair Gillies BDS, FDSFRCPSG, CStJ, MBE. had a highly successful career as a dentist but is also a very talented singer. He received an MBE for his services to music, the Gaelic language and charity!
In this interview Alasdair talks of his early life in Skye and what inspired his musical and dental careers. He descrobes how he attended The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama as a part-time student at the same time he was studying dentistry.
Alasdair gave live performances internationally, recorded 24 albums, and featured on television (BBC and STV). He hosted a Canadian television show called Ceilidh in the 1970s.
Alasdair talks of meeting George Martin and recording with Decca Records and at Abbey Road. As well as recording dozens of Gaelic and Scottish songs, he also recorded Gaelic versions of Beatles songs, including ‘Yesterday,’ and Sandie Shaw’s ‘Puppet on a String’.
In his dental career he worked as a House Officer in Belfast, lectured and tutored at the Glasgow Dental Hospital, worked in General Practice in Drumchapel (Glasgow), the Armed Forces Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and as a coordinator of dental services in the HCI/Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank.
This is an intriguing and fascinating interview with some of the fantastic song 'Chailin Dileas Donn / My Dark Haired Maid' by Alasdair Gillies courtesy of Scotdisc.