Scottish pop songs

Calvin Harris features enjoyed international chart success as a solo performer and collaborator

They might never be critically acclaimed, but every one of these Scottish pop smashes has sold by the thousands. Chris McCall listens into good, the bad additionally the unsightly

BAY CITY ROLLERS - BYE, BYE, BABY

Their particular time at the very top lasted scarcely couple of years, but Rollermania continues to like an extent the Edinburgh band’s reunion tv show during the Barrowland Ballroom next month made headline development. The tune that banged off the hysteria ended up being this 1975 cover of this Four Seasons’ classic. The Rollers made the song their particular, but by increasing its rate and including a guitar solo for impetus. It marketed multiple million copies and occupied the united kingdom singles chart top spot for six-weeks, becoming the team’s signature track along the way.

Easton ended up being apparently told by the belated Marion Massey - whom found Lulu - that she ended up being unlikely to help make the big-time. The Bellshill-born singer promptly proved her wrong by signing a handle EMI and scoring an United states No 1 with 9 to 5 - though it was renamed Morning Train in the usa in order to prevent confusion aided by the Dolly Parton track of the same title. Easton ended up being infamously booed at a Glasgow show in 1990 after announcing “It’s advisable that you be residence” in a noticeably United states accent. The woman last record, Fabulous, was released in 2000.

Jim Kerr’s group had been at the top of these powers in 1985 but lacked a crossover struck that will announce them to music fans in the usa. Three performers - The Fixx, Bryan Ferry and Billy Idol - had all formerly rejected the opportunity to record this track, and Simple Minds weren’t that interested in it both. After being persuaded so it can have a go by their particular administration, the Glaswegian team apparently spent only three hours in a London studio in which time they rehearsed, arranged and recorded the song. The result had been used in the orifice and closing credits of this John Hughes movie The Breakfast Club, and immediately occupied the No 1 slot in the American singles chart for three months. Though it climbed no higher than seven in the UNITED KINGDOM chart, it could spend more than 2 yrs in top 75.