B. A. (Brian) Robertson (born Glasgow, 1956) is a Scottish musician and song writer. For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ... Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots2 Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification    - by Kenneth I 843  Area    - Total 78...

He released his first album in 1973, but it was to be a further six years until he found success in the Uk charts. 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

Robertson had hits between 1979 and 1981 in the UK Singles charts, first of which "Bang Bang" made number 2 in August 1979. Following singles "Knocked It Off", "Kool In The Kaftan" and "To Be Or Not To Be" reached chart positions 8, 17 and 9 respectively. All the singles came from the successful album "Initial Success". In 1981 he had his last Top 40 hit, a duet with Maggie Bell, "Hold Me" which reached number 11. He also co-wrote Carrie for Cliff Richard and wrote and sung the theme tune to Maggie. This page refers to the year 1979. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Maggie Bell (born January 12th 1945) is a Glaswegian singer. ... Sir Cliff Richard (born Harry Rodger Webb in Lucknow, India, on October 14, 1940) is one of the United Kingdoms best known singers. ... Maggie was a British television series made by the BBC between 1981 and 1982. ...

He co-wrote "The Living Years", a hit for Mike & the Mechanics . The lyrics were written when his father died twelve weeks before the birth of his son. The Living Years is the second album by Mike + The Mechanics, released in 1988. ... Mike and the Mechanics are a British rock/pop band formed in 1985 as a side-project of Mike Rutherford, a founding member of Genesis. ...

He also wrote We Have A Dream for the 1982 FIFA World Cup Scotland national football team. Qualifying countries The 1982 Football World Cup was held in Spain by decision of FIFA in July 1966, in the same session where FIFA gave the right to host the 1974 and 1978 tournaments to, respectively, West Germany and Argentina. ... First international Scotland 0 - 0 England (Partick, Scotland; 30 November 1872) Largest win Scotland 9 - 0 Wales (Glasgow, Scotland; 23 March 1878) Worst defeat Uruguay 7 - 0 Scotland (Basel, Switzerland; 19 June 1954) World Cup Appearances 8 (First in 1954) Best result Round 1, all European Championship Appearances 2 (First...

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Trivia

His name was often mentioned in the satiricial sketch show The Fast Show, during the recurring sketch Chanel 9, a parody of non-English speaking TV channels. The joke was based on occasionally intelligible (to English speaking audiences) names appearing in foreign broadcast speech. The Fast Show was a BBC comedy sketch show programme which ran for four series from 1994 to 2000, starring Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Simon Day, Mark Williams, John Thomson, Arabella Weir and Caroline Aherne (1994-1997). ...