Stuart Adamson: The life and death of Big Country's great frontman 

Scott Rowley has produced a gripping portrait of a singer he feels has been somewhat forgotten since his tragic death in 2001

The late Stuart Adamson, second from left, and the other members of Big Country in the 1980s. Picture: Kerstin Rodgers/Redferns

The death in December 2001 of Big Country frontman Stuart Adamson was a tragedy for those who knew him personally and for the many more who had encountered him through his epic and emotive arena rock. 

But for music journalist, author and magazine editor Scott Rowley, there was also a haunting sense of what might have been: some months previously, he had reached out to Adamson only for the call to go unanswered.