Ivor Cutler - A Life Outside the Sitting Room - Bruce Lindsay

Ivor Cutler - A Life Outside the Sitting Room - Bruce Lindsay

A Life in the Clouds

Ivor Cutler - A Life Outside the Sitting Room - Bruce Lindsay

Bruce Lindsay [+-]
Music Journalist and Social Historian
Bruce Lindsay is a freelance music journalist and social history researcher. He is the author of Shellac and Swing: A Social History of the Gramophone in Britain (Fonthill Media, 2020) and Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival: The Lives, Song Traditions and Legacies of Sam Larner and Harry Cox (Equinox Publishing, 2020).

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At the outbreak of World War II Ivor Cutler was not old enough to join the armed forces and was, briefly, evacuated along with his sisters and younger brother, but two years later he joined the Royal Air Force and started navigator training. A dangerous, but possibly glamorous, life as a member of Bomber Command beckoned, but it was not to be and Ivor (service number 1562357) was soon dismissed from the training course for what he later described as “dreaminess” – a potentially fatal characteristic for a navigator and his fellow crew members. He spent the rest of the war in a more mundane role in an engineering factory, living once more with his parents in Glasgow, then after the war ended he trained as a teacher and began his teaching career in Paisley.

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Lindsay, Bruce. A Life in the Clouds. Ivor Cutler - A Life Outside the Sitting Room. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 19-26 Jan 2023. ISBN 9781800502949. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=42535. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.42535. Jan 2023

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