Alan McGee (played by Ewen Bremner) is a protagonist in Creation Stories.
Alan McGee is the central figure, followed from an alienated Glasgow childhood into the British record business. He builds a London club, champions and releases music by ambitious bands, and turns his instinct for talent into major success. Mounting costs, fame, and destructive habits eventually lead to rehab before he returns sober to the music and people around him. John McGee (played by Richard Jobson) appears in Creation Stories.
John McGee is Young Alan’s father during the character’s bleak Glasgow childhood. He criticizes Alan’s appearance and interests, contributing to Alan’s sense of being an outsider at home. His disapproval contrasts with Alan’s growing devotion to music and his determination to escape poverty by building a career and making money. Young Alan (played by Leo Flanagan) appears in Creation Stories.
Young Alan represents Alan McGee during his difficult childhood in 1970s Glasgow. He feels isolated at home, especially as John McGee criticizes his appearance and interests, but becomes intensely focused on music and the ambition to make money. These early frustrations establish the drive that later shapes his adult career.
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Characters
Alan McGee
(played by Ewen Bremner) — protagonist
Alan McGee is the central figure, followed from an alienated Glasgow childhood into the British record business. He builds a London club, champions and releases music by ambitious bands, and turns his...
John McGee
(played by Richard Jobson) — supporting
John McGee is Young Alan’s father during the character’s bleak Glasgow childhood. He criticizes Alan’s appearance and interests, contributing to Alan’s sense of being an outsider at home. His disappro...
Young Alan
(played by Leo Flanagan) — supporting
Young Alan represents Alan McGee during his difficult childhood in 1970s Glasgow. He feels isolated at home, especially as John McGee criticizes his appearance and interests, but becomes intensely foc...
Canonical Relationships
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
Young Alan → Alan McGee
(Temporal Past Self)
The story follows Alan McGee from his childhood as Young Alan in 1970s Glasgow to his adult career in the British record business.
John McGee → Young Alan
(Family Father)
The plot identifies John McGee as Young Alan's father and shows him criticizing Alan's appearance and interests during Alan's childhood in Glasgow.
Story Analysis
Alan McGee's rise through British music, artistic risk, destructive excess, and uncertain recovery unfolds across memory and ambition.
Plot Progression
Glasgow Outsider
Building A Music Future
Creation's Rising Success
Costs Of Belief
Oasis And The Breakdown
Learning To Listen Again
Directed by Nick Moran
Creation Stories (2021) · 6/10 · drama, music
Content sources
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(Q85853048), public domain (CC0).
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