A look at the career of the Bay City Rollers.A look at the career of the Bay City Rollers.A look at the career of the Bay City Rollers.
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I recently heard the term 'I have never seen anything like this since The Beatles' applied to some here today and gone tomorrow latest boy band. Which made me think you would have to be over 70 years old to be able to make such a comparison.
The Scots group Bay City Rollers would be one of the few British groups to be able to give the Fab Four a run for its money after they called it a day. Even our household was known to have a few bits of tartan here and there in the mid 1970s.
This production is a comprehensive look at The Bay City Rollers, how they got together with their early management and song writing team who had little faith in the boys. Session musicians were drafted in to lay the tracks on their first album. The later producers allowed the boys more musical input as their success sky rocketed but I always felt their success was more short lived in the UK as by 1977 I never came across them in the pop charts, maybe they were too busy to crack the USA.
Eric Faulkner was a notable absentee in the interviews. The group has had post break up altercations with several Bay City Roller lines ups doing the rounds. Les McKeown talks about how weary he became at the height of their success. Derek Longmuir who famously became a nurse in the 1980s talks about those heady days but his criminal conviction for child pornography is not mentioned.
The band went through a succession of musicians after its classic period and no reason given why the news band members lasted only a few months. Were their tensions with the band or just difficult to work with?
Of course post break up the band members saw little of the money they generated and it is well known they were swindled by their manager Tam Paton.
Still Rollermania is a zippy and frothy look back at the Tartan Invasion outside of a Home International fixture where bands could still be counted on to come up with a few bouncy songs. Even The Ramones stole their riffs.
The Scots group Bay City Rollers would be one of the few British groups to be able to give the Fab Four a run for its money after they called it a day. Even our household was known to have a few bits of tartan here and there in the mid 1970s.
This production is a comprehensive look at The Bay City Rollers, how they got together with their early management and song writing team who had little faith in the boys. Session musicians were drafted in to lay the tracks on their first album. The later producers allowed the boys more musical input as their success sky rocketed but I always felt their success was more short lived in the UK as by 1977 I never came across them in the pop charts, maybe they were too busy to crack the USA.
Eric Faulkner was a notable absentee in the interviews. The group has had post break up altercations with several Bay City Roller lines ups doing the rounds. Les McKeown talks about how weary he became at the height of their success. Derek Longmuir who famously became a nurse in the 1980s talks about those heady days but his criminal conviction for child pornography is not mentioned.
The band went through a succession of musicians after its classic period and no reason given why the news band members lasted only a few months. Were their tensions with the band or just difficult to work with?
Of course post break up the band members saw little of the money they generated and it is well known they were swindled by their manager Tam Paton.
Still Rollermania is a zippy and frothy look back at the Tartan Invasion outside of a Home International fixture where bands could still be counted on to come up with a few bouncy songs. Even The Ramones stole their riffs.
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