You'd be hard-pressed to find someone in Glasgow that isn't familiar with this banger.

Bits and Pieces - the unofficial anthem of Glasgow - is getting the TV treatment with BBC Scotland's music strand ‘TUNE’ having created a special programme for iPlayer, documenting Scotland's love affair with the dance track, with Clyde 1’s George Bowie starring in the show.

Previously, Glasgow Live has taken a deep dive into why Bits and Pieces is so associated with Glasgow.

So we thought now was the perfect time to take a second look at our city's history with the tune.

Despite the tune being born in Holland, we have adopted this tune and made it one of our own.

Originally released in 1995 by Artmesia, the absolute banger is the work of Dutch DJ Patrick Prins.

Prins found himself at the heart of the 'Hardbag' scene in Holland in the early-mid 90's, Electronic Dance Music stemming from the roots of the Hardbag House movement of the same era. And, thanks to the likes of Bits & Pieces, Prins became one of the primary exponents of Hardbag hits.

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On April 15, 1995, Prins, who has produced and performed using several different pseudonyms - including Artmesia - released Bits & Pieces to the world, under the 'Hooj Choons' label.

Soon, it was being belted out in clubs across Europe, with Glasgow DJs getting in on the act, the song peaking at number 46 in the UK charts.

The song was later re-released in July 1997 under the Top Banana label, and in August 2000, under Tidy Trax.

And, if you were lucky enough to get the track on cassette, then you'd inevitably by cruising around Glasgow in the motor at night, windows down, volume up full.

Of course, one of the biggest champions of the song is Glasgow's king of dance music, George Bowie. Tune in to Clyde on any Friday or Saturday over the past two decades, and you can put your house on George playing - or a caller requesting - the classic hit.

Yet for a few years, Bits & Pieces went a little off the radar.

However, the advent of YouTube in the mid-noughties brought a new means of listening to Prins' masterpiece.

Dutch DJ and producer Patrick Prins

A user named 'bilstonjambo' uploaded the track in February 2007, and the video has since gone on to record over 4.3million views.

Meanwhile, some of the comments hark back to nineties, bustling with nostalgia from Glasgow, the West of Scotland, and beyond.

User mbi74 said: "Put this tune on any party all ages in West of Scotland and watch the room bounce", Dylan 8Ball adding: "Every Scottish hoose party ever, absolute tune."

Of course there are various references to the many Glasgow venues which would pack out dance floors on account of the Artmesia number - The Tunnel and Bonkers some of the classic clubs getting shout-outs.

George Bowie is one of the song's biggest champions

And, over 20 years since its original release, Bits & Pieces' popularity continues to grow and grow.

In summer 2016, Dumfries-born DJ Calvin Harris closed out his T in the Park set with the GBX anthem, after George Bowie launched a campaign to get the global superstar to entertain the Balado crowd with the banger.

After duly obliging, Bowie released a remixed version of the song.

It was claimed at the time, by Bowie, Harris had never heard the song before. However, this was refuted by the Dumfries DJ in 2018, when responding to a Tweet asking him about it, he said: "Mate I was probably in chancers when bits n pieces was dropped in Dumfries for the very first time hahahhaa."

A few weeks after Harris' now iconic set, Bits & Pieces topped a Tartan Army poll, when the question was put to supporters 'which song should be played after Scotland score a goal?'. In truth, it wasn't even a remotely close contest, the rave track scoring 49 per cent of votes, beating 500 Miles on 20 per cent, and Chelsea Dagger at 18 per cent.

Meanwhile, in the same year, an online petition was made to replace Flower of Scotland with Bits & Pieces as Scotland's national anthem.

Dozens of DJs at clubs across Glasgow have belted out the track

And, thankfully, the song refuses to go away. Just a couple of months ago, at TRNSMT, Lewis (or Chewis) Capaldi arrived on stage, complete with Chewbacca mask, as Bits & Pieces blared out across Glasgow Green.