JERRY Lee Lewis played there. So did Ella Fitzgerald and the Count Basie Orchestra.

Jim Watt won his world lightweight boxing title there and half a million people used to go through its doors every year when it held Glasgow’s Museum of Transport.

The Kelvin Hall of course.

Last week, I visited the opening of its brand new Glasgow Club gym, making this Glasgow icon the city’s most modern sports centre.

The gym’s first customer was West End resident Richy Walsh, who took time from his workout to talk to me about the state-of-the-art facilities.

Richy is what we might call, in the Glasgow vernacular, a ‘fitness fanatic’. He also represents the sort of folk that the Glasgow Club is there for – real life Glaswegians who want to balance the demands of everyday life with the sort of health and fitness that exercise brings.

The Kelvin Hall now has Glasgow’s largest public gymnasium with £325,000 of mind-boggling equipment of all sorts. That includes cardiovascular machines to measure your heartbeat and a mixed weights area to put muscle on your aching frame. It also boasts four group session rooms for the likes of Zumba, Body Attack and BoxFit, as well as what I think is the first studio with a video screen for indoor cycling classes.

At the opening I struck a pose with ‘Gymmy and Gymima', the Glasgow Club marvellous mascots, at the entrance to the new gym along with Elizabeth Kirkwood, a member of the Glasgow Club team.

Elizabeth has the natural enthusiasm that matches the Glasgow Club, which is a critical part of encouraging Glaswegians to get as fit as they can be. There’s a Glasgow Club near you - www.glasgowclub.org - although among them all the Kelvin Hall is now a bit special. You won’t regret getting involved.

Since I’ve started with a sporting theme I’m going to stick with it - being told to “Get on yer bike” in Glasgow is usually an invitation with negative connotations.

But in Glasgow we’ve transformed that into a different reality. Take our bike rental scheme for one. Since it was launched two years ago it has been a tremendous peddling success with over 200,00 rentals and almost 15,000 personal registrations.

Glasgow’s is the biggest bike scheme in the UK outside of London. We want to extend it now from 430 plus stations containing 435 bikes, to 100 stations with 900 bikes.

Cycling brings a multitude of benefits to our city both in terms of public health and preserving our environment. That is why we are investing millions in cycling and cycling infrastructure to make the Dear Green Place one of Europe’s most cycling friendly cities.

This won’t happen overnight but we are committed to cycling as part of changing our transport culture. Glasgow’s £6m cycling strategy and the expansion of the bike scheme are part of that. So, if you don’t mind my saying so, “Get on yer bike”.

This summer there’s no way you could have escaped talk of the EU and Brexit. Ever since the country voted to leave back in June we’ve heard all manner of different tales about what it will mean for us, from optimistic, to the worrying, and the downright unbelievable.

Last week I sat down with business leaders from across Glasgow to find out from them what they think of the Brexit vote and, more importantly, what it might mean for Glasgow.

All the business sectors of the city were represented retailers, construction companies, cultural venues or big property developers – we had everything covered.

And do you know what the main message coming out of it was? It wasn’t all doom and gloom.

It was if there are new opportunities we’ll take them and if there are challenges we’ll overcome them.

That’s a confident message but if that confidence has to be made real the Scottish and UK governments have to take special measures if cities like Glasgow are to be the powerhouses to meet the challenges of Brexit.

Along with Strathclyde University economists and the Chamber of Commerce, the city council is producing a Brexit Report that outlines precisely what needs to be done. Watch this space.