Bay City Rollers

The Bay City Rollers were a Scottish pop band who were most popular in the
1970s. The British Hit Singles & Albums noted that they were "tartan teen
sensations from Edinburgh", and were "the first of many acts heralded as the
'Biggest Group since The Beatles' and one of the most screamed-at teeny-bopper
acts of the 1970s". For a relatively brief but fervent period ... read more

New video from Arctic Monkeys

Cool cover of Bay City Rollers track. Not really.
Posted 8 July 2011 10.59am — Comment on this

The Bay City Rollers: Rollermania begins

February 1974: Number 18 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of pop musicAmerican adolescents had the Osmonds and the Jackson 5 to swoon over in the early 7...
Posted 11 June 2011 12.35am — Comment on this

BBC4's Top of the Pops revival: hits that could feature

Songs in the UK chart in 1976-77 that are likely to be included in BBC4's archive showsTop 40 hits of early April 1976 1 Brotherhood Of Man Save Your Kisses For Me2 Barry...
Posted 30 March 2011 12.58pm — Comment on this

Ex-Rollers star Longmuir tells of imposter

FORMER Bay City Rollers star Alan Longmuir has told how an imposter has turned up in Spain claiming to be him.
Posted 1 January 2011 12.00am — Comment on this

wednesday morning updates

Kip said...Digging For Days Update:American Bang-anthemic southern rock a la Kings of Leonhttp://diggingfordays.blogspot.comChris said...Devo - The Pioneers that go...
Posted 21 July 2010 10.24am — Comment on this

Glastonbury festival at 40

Simon Armitage, poet and singer-songwriter, on his memories of the festivalThe first festival I went to was Futurama in Leeds in 1980, in the dark, cavernous hangar of th...
Posted 26 June 2010 12.05am — Comment on this

friday morning updates

Simon666 said...JOHN SHAKESPEARE ORCHESTRA produced by QUINCY JONES - “Number One Theme” b/w “Fade Out” (1969)Track of the Day! WAV and MP3 vers...
Posted 4 June 2010 10.37am — Comment on this

The Bay City Roller are back! But why?

The rockers are sharing a stage with the Osmonds, David Essex and Leo Sayer. What's the enduring appeal of nostalgia tours?In a 1973 interview, Leo Sayer told the NME tha...
Posted 10 May 2010 7.30pm — Comment on this


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