Full-time professional career

In 1971 BBC Scotland invited Anne to sing on BBC TV live every Saturday night: 26 weeks as resident singer alongside presenter Magnus Magnusson. This was when she joined Equity and adopted the middle name “Lorne” – which is a name given to the part of Argyll in which she was raised. (There was another Anne Gillies on Equity’s books at that time, a singer from Skye, married to Lewis-born Gaelic singer Calum Kennedy, sister of Gaelic singer Alasdair Gillies, and no relation of Anne Lorne.)

It was also the start of a 15-year long television career (in the days when they still made music programmes!)