This badge celebrates the Aberdeen University Union. I have no idea how the Union settled on a cartoon of a rock’n’roller in brothel creepers for a logo, or who the artist of this feature-less Elvis was. I do know that it wasn’t representative of the Union’s clientele, or its ambience, or of Aberdeen, which was far from a rock’n’roll town when I arrived…
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