No Mean City by Maggie Bell is the theme tune to which long running TV detective show?
No Mean City The title is also the name of a song written by Mike Moran and sung by Maggie Bell used as the theme music for the STV detective drama series "Taggart". No Mean City No Mean City is a 1935 novel by H. Kingsley Long, a journalist, and Alexander McArthur, an unemployed worker. It is an account of life in the Gorbals, a run-down slum district of Glasgow (now mostly demolished, but re-built in a contemporary style) with the hard men and the razor gangs. Whatever its literary or other merits, for many years it was regarded as the definitive account
Chicken Man (theme tune) Chicken Man (theme tune) "Chicken man" is a tune composed in 1975 by Alan Hawkshaw which is notable for its use in two popular British TV series since the 1970s. It was recorded in Munich as part of the Themes International music library. Hawkshaw composed the tune in less than an hour, claiming he 'didn't really know what [he] was doing' and that 'he just wanted to do something quirky'. It became well known as the theme to the long-running children's series "Grange Hill". In its original version it was used as the main title music from 1978-1987, and was