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Now Listen ... Eagle Rock Turns 50 and Ross Wilson Talks About Its Origins


Daddy Cool’s iconic ‘Eagle Rock’ is a song based on sexual innuendo or to be perfectly blunt, it’s a song about rooting.
The Daddy Cool classic ‘Eagle Rock’ will turn 50 in May 2021. The song was a national number one in Australia for 10 weeks in 1971 and charted again in 1986 and 1990.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the song songwriter Ross Wilson took Noise11 through the conception and history of ‘Eagle Rock’. The term ‘Eagle Rock’ in song dates back to 1914 when it was used in the lyrics of ‘Ballin’ The Jack’ by Chris Smith. ‘Ballin’ The Jack’ was a locomotive term for going at full speed and Eagle Rock’, well Ross explains … “The Eagle Rock was a dance but like rock and roll it is also a euphemism for you know what, yes rooting, spread eagling. ....

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