Glasgow has had a huge impact on world music as the city has produced some of the biggest and best bands to have come out of the Scottish music scene.
Names such as Simple Minds, Texas and Franz Ferdinand roll off the tongue whenever you are speaking about music in Glasgow but there are some bands and musicians that people may not know have a connection to the city.
Songwriters from other towns and cities have had their music informed by interactions with the local scene which is why we wanted to put a list together of bands who have a Glasgow connection.
Here are seven bands and musicians you didn’t know had a Glasgow connection.
1. Daft Punk
Daft Punk's big break came back in 1993 when they met Glasgow label boss Stuart Macmillan at a rave at Paris’ Euro Disney. Macmillan was one of the co-founders of the label Soma Quality Recordings along with Orde Meikle who were also known as Slam. At the event, they handed him a demo tape that contained the basis of their first single ‘The New Wave’ which was released a year later. Their first commercially successful track was ‘Da Funk’ which is known as a tune from their debut album Homework but was released two years prior in 1995 as a 12-inch single with only 2,000 copies being made available. Here is Daft Punk playing at The Arches back in 1997. | Supplied
2. Talking Heads
Although lead singer David Byrne was born in Dumbarton, his father Tom was born and raised in Lambhill. Byrne’s mother Emma was a pupil at Hillhead High School. She scored first in Glasgow in her eleven-plus exam which meant she was rewarded with a scholarship to study at the then private school. Further achievements would follow for Emma as she also received the academic “Dux” award. The couple met each other at a dance after the Second World War when the young former Navy officer Tom asked Emma to dance and a few years afterwards they were married. It was not all plain sailing for the couple with Byrne saying: “Some family members (on both sides) didn’t approve of the marriage, and boycotted the ceremony. Others threatened to sever their relationships to the young couple... Emma was able to take a few courses at the Glasgow Institute of Art and they soon set up home in nearby Dumbarton, where Tom found work as an electrical engineer.” | Brian Rasic/Getty Images
3. AC/DC
Angus and Malcolm Young were born and raised in Cranhill at 6 Skerryvore Road in their formative years - they came up hard in a small cluster of houses in the East End. In a small tenement flat, Angus and Malcolm grew up with their mum, dad, older brother George, and sister Margaret squeezed into the tiny space. | Getty Images
4. Dire Straits
Dire Straits lead guitarist and singer Mark Knopfler was born in Glasgow and attended Westerton Primary School pupil just outside of the city. | Getty Images