"The sleevenote quoted above by Tim appears to be the result of some confusion."
I think the confusion was between Ewan and Ken Goldstein, who did the potted biography for the album.
Anyone who came into contact with Ewan was left in no doubt that he was born and brought up in Salford, a fact that that both made him proud and depressed at the same time. He was forever quoting Engles' Conditions of the Working Class in England, much of which was based on 19th century Salford, a little more than a half century before Ewan was born.
Jim Carroll