The 1976 album Bobby Gillespie crowns the greatest in rock history: “That’s why people loved and still love him”When Bobby Gillespie first formed Primal Scream in 1982, it looked like a much different outfit from what they ended up becoming. It’s half hard rock and half ballads. Then you’ve got ‘The Cowboy Son’ which is half ballad, half rock,” he said, “It’s a great mix of stuff.” The album clearly showed Gillespie what could be achieved when musicians were open to not being one-dimensional with their music. He said, “Phil Lynott tried to replicate that on every Lizzy album after, and it was really hard, because it’d come so naturally.