History

It was inside Edinburgh that they were found by potato merchandiser's boy Tam Paton, who became their manager. A band members use at times said it chose their band's title by throwing the dart at the map of the United States. A dart landed on a map touching the community of Bay City, Michigan. A class action went across several line higher changes (& non-charting singles) between 1971 & 1974.

Their Scottish identity was a major factor their marketing, & it were one of couple of groups whose fans got the totally distinctive style of dress, the independent elements of which were mortise joint length tartan trousers and tartan scarves. It following Seventeen hit singles through countries inside Europe and/or North America, the 1st of which was "Keep On Dancing" (UK #9 around 1971).

the Bay City Rollers got many hits that processed it to the Top Three on the British stock & index charts, and for a cycle it experienced their have television series entitled Shang a Lang (the title of one of their hits). Per spring of 1975, a Rollers were one of the greatest marketing acts inside Britain. Their next lone, the handle of the Four Seasons' "Bye, Bye, Baby", went to number 1 on the music stock and index charts around March of 1975, selling the million copies. At a peak of their popularity in the UK, comparisons were possibly mass produced to The Beatles.

The popular playground chant of the period went (to the tune of "This Old Man"): Inside 1976 it reached #1 on the Me Billboard Hot 100 with "Saturday Night"; yet, this record never following in the UK. Another The states hit come by owning "Money Honey" which hit #9. It became the vast profits around area of the globe including Japan & Australia. When it experienced sixer top Xl singles in the The states overall, there was universally a bit of trend lines to the two as an overhyped foreign import. Surely their critical reception was unfortunate: a 1979 Rolling Stone Record Prescription describes the children when "Trivial, sugary, pre-teenage pop product," & gives na single of their albums extra than one star away from 5.

A class action's commercial fortunes declined towards a prevent of the Seventies. Paton was fired within 1979 & per early Eighties a Bay City Rollers got disbanded.

Line-ups

A original institution members were: Alan Longmuir (bass) Derek Longmuir (drums) Gordon "Nobby" Clark (lead vocals)

A 1975 line-higher: Eric Faulkner (lead guitar) Alan Longmuir (bass) Derek Longmuir (drums) Les McKeown (lead vocals) Stuart Wood (rhythm guitar)

A 1976 line-higher: Eric Faulkner (lead guitar) Stuart Wood (bass) Derek Longmuir (drums) Les McKeown (lead vocals) Ian Mitchell (rhythm guitar)

A late 1976-early 1977 line-higher: Eric Faulkner (lead guitar) Stuart Wood (bass) Derek Longmuir (drums) Les McKeown (lead vocals) Pat McGlynn (rhythm guitar)

A 1977 line-higher: Eric Faulkner (lead guitar) Stuart Wood (bass) Derek Longmuir (drums) Les McKeown (lead vocals)

A 1978 line-higher: Eric Faulkner (lead guitar) Stuart Wood (bass) Derek Longmuir (drums) Les McKeown (lead vocals) Alan Longmuir (rhythm guitar)

A late 1978-1982 line-higher: Eric Faulkner (lead guitar) Stuart Wood (bass) Derek Longmuir (drums) Duncan Faure (lead vocals) Alan Longmuir(rhythm guitar)

Virtually all of the band members come from either Edinburgh; Mitchell hailed from Northern Ireland and Faure from South Africa.

Legacy

a bit of assume a Bay City Rollers to use at times been a image for even, or early case of, the boy band. Others state that a class action was non made, & were single musicians in their have best. In a period of the early years, occasionally session musicians were utilized on the band's recordings because of their tour schedule. Yet a class actiin itself was composed of echt musicians world health organization played sleep in concert & on virtually 100% all of their albums.

There hwhen been tremendously speculation all over years as to what happened to a supposed fiscal fortune a class action generated in their career, by having accusations it was defrauded from either the class action per record company. The Channel 4 documentary explored this question.

There are numerous claims (believed by virtually all to become untrue) that a class action sold 100-300 million records & generated a same of £5 billion around revenue. [http://www.lesmckeown.com/biog.htm] [http://icteesside.icnetwork.co.uk/0400business/0008bj/comment/tm_objectid=14337477&method=full&siteid=50080&headline=don-t-be-rollered-read-small-print-name_page.html] [http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1063532003].

Based on data from BBC it sold 70 million records. potentially so, even this figure has been disputed by many sources, non least their previous record company. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2664407.stm].