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- Origin
- Edinburgh, GB
- Active since
- 1967–1987
About
The Bay City Rollers are a Scottish pop rock band known for their worldwide teen idol popularity in the 1970s. One of many 1970s acts heralded as the "biggest group since the Beatles", they were called the "tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh", and sold an estimated 120–300 million records worldwide, making them one of the best selling musical acts of all time globally. Their classic line-up during their peak popularity included guitarists Eric Faulkner and Stuart Wood, singer Les McKeown, bassist Alan Longmuir and his younger brother Derek Longmuir on drums.
Their debut album, Rollin' (1974), debuted atop the UK Albums Chart and spent a combined total of fifty-eight weeks on the chart. Their follow-up studio album Once Upon a Star (1975) continued this success, again debuting atop the UK Albums Chart. The album yielded the successful singles "Bye, Bye, Baby", which topped the charts in the UK, Ireland and Australia, and "Keep On Dancing". "Bye, Bye, Baby" was the best selling single in the UK in 1975. Their first album to be released in the United States and Canada, Bay City Rollers (1975) peaked at number twenty on the US Billboard 200 and number one in Canada.
Commercial success continued internationally with the release of Wouldn't You Like It? (1975), Rock n' Roll Love Letter (1976), Dedication (1976) and It's a Game (1977). Their significance in international charts began to decline in 1978 upon the release of Strangers in the Wind, which failed to chart in the…
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Discography

Keep on Rollin'
2024

A Christmas Shang-A-Lang
2015

Elevator
2008

Ricochet
2008

Voxx
2008

Original Performers Original Sound
2007

Strangers in the Wind
1978

It’s a Game
1977

Rock n’ Roll Love Letter
1976

Dedication
1976

Once Upon a Star
1975

Wouldn’t You Like It
1975
Members
Alan Longmuir
bass guitar
1966–1976
Ian Mitchell
bass guitar
1976–present
Billy Lyall
Pat McGlynn
Les McKeown
David Paton
Stuart Wood
Derek Longmuir
External links
Data via MusicBrainz • musicbrainz.org
