The last is frequently the purview of John McHale, who, under his Breakeven Booking shingle, has served as one of the Magic City's high priests of concert promotion for more than two decades.

For a start, it was a couple of Scottish-born artists who were at least two-thirds of the horsepower that powered British Pop; John McHale (born Maryhill, Glasgow, 1922), and Eduardo Paolozzi ...