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The Old Man appears in the "Trailer sketch" of the Monty Python's Flying Circus episode "Archaeology Today" in which the voiceover (Eric Idle) says that in the upcoming BBC Television season, singer Lulu "will be tackling The Old Man of Hoy". It also appears in the opening scene of the video of the Eurythmics' 1984 hit song "Here Comes the Rain Again".
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