Ricky Ross

Deacon Blue, Dignity.

Ricky Ross, uh, wrote it.

It was a hit in the following year, and it's about a man who sweeps the streets for the council in Glasgow, 20 years of it.

And every week he puts a little aside, saving for a boat, a small one, and he's gonna take her up the Scottish coast on his holidays, past the places where the people he knows will be doing their rounds.

My, my most famous one is about Deacon Blue, uh, because, uh, we had them come up to the bandstand table that we had sort of set up during the, during the day.

And, uh, Ricky Ross said to my colleague who had no idea who Deacon Blue was, he said, can we play the bandstand? And he went, well, have you got a tape? Because it was back in the day.

And he said, well, two songs in the top 10, okay.

And he just looked at him and he came over to me and went, do you know who they are? I went, yeah, don't you? He went,