"Now this one's a bit of a cheat for me, being born in the early seventies I was still in nappies when "Hair Of The Dog" came out in '75, so there's no way I heard it "the first time" like the old timers did. It must have wormed its way in later, probably off the radio or borrowed from someone's dad's record collection, because by the time I actually noticed it, that cowbell and riff felt like they'd been there my whole life.

Funnily enough, unlike its album-mate "Love Hurts" (which gave the Scots their biggest US hit, number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100), the title track itself never actually bothered the singles charts on either side of the pond. It built its name purely off classic rock radio and blokes like me passing it around for fifty years, which I think says more about a song than any chart position does.

Manny Charlton's guitar and that talkbox bit in the middle still sound filthy, and Dan McCafferty growling "son of a bitch" (cleaned up to "hair of the dog" for the radio edit, allegedly) is one of the best snarls in 70s rock."