Daily Record man JOHN DINGWALL returns to campus to take a course on chart-topper Taylor Swift designed for parents to get up to speed on the world's best-selling artist
IT'S been years, OK I admit it, decades since I stepped into an educational establishment. In fact, never mind computers. The calculator hadn't been invented.
Until I discovered I could come along to a masterclass at Glasgow Clyde College on Taylor Swift, a short 90-minute course designed for mums and dads planning to go along as plus ones on Taylor Swift's Eras tour.
Which is kind of appropriate when you think the course has been designed for people who don't know their Eras from their elbows.
How hard can it be to learn everything there is to know about a pop star as young as Swift who must be roughly a tenth the age of a Rolling Stone? mean, she's a Millennial. What are they, like, 12?
On arrival at the campus, I'm suddenly transported to my own uni days which were spent drinking, er, I mean studying hard in the Strathclyde Students' Union bar back when the pints were heavily subsidised and there was a cloud of odd-smelling cigarette smoke in the air. In those days music fans were dressed for the Italian Renaissance, listening to New Romantics and concert tickets were £1.50.
That's apparently roughly one zillionth of the price of tickets to Taylor Swift's Eras tour. I see that all the seats in the back row are clogged with parents of Swifties (the name of Swift's fans) and realise I've made a schoolboy error. I'm now sitting in the front row in the teacher's eyeline.
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