A Son of the Rock

The Proclaimers’ first statement to the world; an unlikely hit considering it’s a protest song about both the Highland clearances and industrial decline in late twentieth century central Scotland.

The original track was produced by Gerry Rafferty whose unmistakable stamp is all over the instrumental coda.

The good lady rather likes this video starring the 2 little Colins – or the Wee Proclaimers as she calls them:-

Here are the lads themselves appearing on the Dutch TV show TopPop whose producers seem to have taken the song’s title a bit too literally.