Editing Primal Scream (section)

===Formation and early years (1982–1984)===
Bobby Gillespie moved to [[Mount Florida]] in southeastern Glasgow, where he attended [[King's Park Secondary School]], where he first met Robert Young.<ref name="uncut">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.theprimalscream.com/press/uncut-nov99.html |title=True Adventures of Primal Scream |access-date=27 December 2007 |author=[[Michael Bonner]] |date=November 1999 |magazine=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080123182728/http://www.theprimalscream.com/press/uncut-nov99.html |archive-date=23 January 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Another schoolfriend was [[Alan McGee]], who took Gillespie to see his first concert, [[Thin Lizzy]].<ref name="uncut"/> McGee and Gillespie were heavily influenced by [[punk rock]], and they joined a local punk band, the Drains, in 1978. The Drains' guitarist was a 15-year-old Andrew Innes.<ref name="uncut"/> The band was short-lived, and Innes and McGee moved to London while Gillespie chose to remain in Glasgow.

After the punk movement ended, Gillespie became disenchanted with mainstream [[new wave music]].<ref name="uncut"/> He met another schoolfriend who shared his outlook, Jim Beattie, and they recorded "elemental noise tapes", in which Gillespie would bang two dustbin lids together and Beattie played fuzz-guitar.<ref name="record">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.theprimalscream.com/press/recordcollector-may94.html |title=John Reed Looks Back Over the Career of the Outspoken Bobby Gillespie and His Band, Who Are Back with a Controversial New Album |access-date=27 December 2007 |author=John Reed |date=May 1994 |magazine=[[Record Collector]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726103811/http://www.theprimalscream.com/press/recordcollector-may94.html |archive-date=26 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> They soon moved on to [[the Velvet Underground]] and [[the Byrds]] cover songs before starting to write their own songs, based on [[Jah Wobble]] and [[Peter Hook]] basslines. Gillespie later said that the band "didn't really exist, but we did it every night for something to do."<ref name="uncut"/> They named themselves Primal Scream, a term for a type of cry heard in [[primal therapy]]. Still essentially a partnership, Primal Scream first played live in 1982.<ref name="record"/>