Rod Stewart is amongst a number of Scots stars showing within the music video for a brand new model of Bay Metropolis Rollers hit tune Shang-A-Lang, fifty years on from the unique hit.
The pop legends mentioned it felt like “the right time” to revive the smash hit and lift money for charity, as Scotland males’s soccer group heads to Germany for the Euros.
Singers Rod and Susan Boyle star within the music video dancing alongside to the tune with iconic tartan scarves.
The band carried out the brand new model in entrance of lots of of Tartan Military earlier than the Northern Eire pleasant match on the Shed nightclub in March and launched the video on Friday, 7 June.
Footage from the set was used within the video, which stars scores of well-known faces from the worlds of music, movie, tv, media and sport.
The thought for a brand new model of the anthemic hit was born dwell on air when the Bay Metropolis Rollers joined Ewen and Cat at Breakfast on Biggest Hits Radio Scotland in December.
Woody, who joined the band in 1974, talked about how the tune would flip 50 simply when Scotland had been heading to the Euros in Germany.
He mentioned it was because of Ewen and Cat that they obtained the ball rolling with the brand new single.
Gordon Strachan, radio presenters Ewen Cameron and Cat Harvey and different well-known Scots together with Jackie Chook, Michelle McManus, Callum Beattie, Kyle Falconer and John Mackay of STV all star within the charity single’s video.
Rod helps launch of Shang-A-Lang
Among the forged from Nonetheless Recreation and River Metropolis, ICW wrestling World Champion Jack Jester and Biggest Hits Radio presenters Webster, Fred McAuley, Boogie and Arlene additionally joined in.
Folks from throughout Scotland who despatched in clips are additionally featured, dancing in a fish manufacturing facility, singing within the sea, and waving flags whereas all singing alongside.
All money raised might be donated to Money for Children, supporting susceptible and deprived youngsters regionally and throughout Scotland.
Musician John McLaughlin mentioned:
“It’s the fiftieth anniversary which is unbelievable, and we needed to have a good time in a spectacular vogue.
“We had been in with Cat and Ewen and it felt pure to do that. It felt like a good suggestion to freshen it up.
“From the opening chords, folks appear to react with that immediately. It doesn’t make sense, however Shang-A-Lang feels like such a Scottish phrase.
“The texture of the tune has such a superb Scottishness to it. With the Scottish group being at Euros, all of it provides as much as make an ideal storm.”
Clyde radio presenter Ewen Cameron advised STV Information: “The response has been wonderful. It’s been a lot enjoyable making a music video, it’s flying on social media.
“Shang-A-Lang is a Scottish anthem. Everybody obtained concerned and was singing alongside. It has crossed generations.
“It’s been a superb expertise.”
Since then, Ewen and Cat requested their listeners to ship in movies and a few of them have been distinctive.
Cat mentioned: “We’ve been inundated with wonderful clips from throughout Scotland as a result of our listeners have been very artistic with their cell phones.
“We’ve got folks dancing in a fish manufacturing facility, folks waving flags and singing within the sea, grannies, infants, pensioners teams, disabled teams, households, mates and celebrities all dancing and singing alongside.
“This tune is such a celebration, and we are able to inform everybody has had a great deal of enjoyable becoming a member of in.”
Shang-A-Lang 50 launched on Friday June 7 on all platforms, with all income going to Money for Children.
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