Certain songs and football clubs are inextricably linked, but none more so than Sunshine on Leith and Hibs, forever synonymous after the battle to save the football club from probable extinction.
The song, which reached only 41 in the UK charts as the title track of The Proclaimers’ second album, saw a remarkable transformation to becoming one of the world’s favourite stadium anthems, with the composition now permanently married in the minds of the public with visions of tens of thousands of passionate Hibs fans holding scarves aloft and amplifying every word.
The Proclaimers song Sunshine on Leith was adopted as an anthem during the Hands Off Hibs campaign.
During the fight to block the takeover of Hibs by then-Hearts owner Willie Mercer in 1990, the supporters’ club rallied together to find ways of getting the Hands Off Hibs message out.
