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While taking a technical class at Napier College, Alan met fellow plumbing student Gregory Ellison, who joined the Saxons on electric guitar, with Pettigrew shifting to keyboards. Gregory's older brother Mike joined as a second lead singer, allowing more complex harmonies, especially useful for the Motown songs they liked to perform. The band convinced Tam Paton, a former big band leader [8] and influential local band and club manager, to audition them at the Longmuirs' house. Paton booked them for a Thursday night at his club, the Palais, then assigned them to open for the Hipple People at Top Storey. More gigs followed. [6] In March 2007, six former members of the group (Faure plus the "classic line-up") announced a lawsuit against Arista Records in hopes of claiming what they described as "tens of millions of dollars" of unpaid royalties. Gordon "Nobby" Clark threatened to sue the other band members if their lawsuit was successful, stating that he was the creative force behind the band's success, even though he left the group in 1973, before the bulk of their fame and fortune began. [37] [38] The Bay City Rollers were on The Krofft Superstar Hour, later named the Bay City Rollers Show, an hour-long show that aired from September 9, 1978, to January 27, 1979. During this time, the classic line-up released their last album togther, Strangers in the Wind, which charted only in Australia,(#61) Japan, (#5) and the USA (#128). This section needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( January 2020) List of the best Bay City Rollers albums, including pictures of the album covers when available. This Bay City Rollers discography is ranked from best to worst, so the top Bay City Rollers albums can be found at the top of the list. To make it easy for you, we haven't included Bay City Rollers singles, EPs, or compilations, so everything you see here should only be studio albums. If you think the greatest Bay City Rollers album isn't high enough on the list, then be sure to vote for it so it receives the credit it deserves. Make sure you don't just vote for critically acclaimed albums; if you have a favorite Bay City Rollers album, then vote it up, even if it's not necessarily the most popular.

Blevins, Joe. "Read This: This Bay City Rollers LP should be rescued from obscurity". News.avcluv.com . Retrieved 27 October 2018. On the tour, they covered "It's a Game", an unsuccessful 1973 single by String Driven Thing, to give them their final UK Top 20 hit (No. 16 in May 1977). Oddly enough, this single provided them with their highest-charting German hit, reaching No.4 in the same year. [18] The follow-up " You Made Me Believe in Magic" made No.34 in July in the UK and No.10 in the U.S., and this single was their final major success. [9] Coy, W. (2005), Bay City Babylon: The Unbelievable But True Story of the Bay City Rollers, pp 12–13. Hats Off Books, ISBN 978-1587364631

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Bay City Rollers (in Japan 1996) - SATURDAY Night -". YouTube. Archived from the original on 11 December 2021 . Retrieved 14 August 2021. After signing with Bell Records, the band's first hit was " Keep on Dancing" (UK No.9, 1971), a cover of a 1965 hit by the Gentrys. [9] [10] Upon this release's success, they made appearances on BBC One's Top of the Pops. In the late 1980s, a version of the band called the New Rollers was formed featuring Faulkner on lead vocals, Karen Prosser on vocals, Jason Medvec on guitar, Andy Boakes on bass, and Mark Roberts on drums. The band toured extensively throughout the US and Canada as well as tours of the UK and Australia. This group also released an independent four-song EP titled Party Harty.

Mark Johnson (1 April 2016). Seditious Theology: Punk and the Ministry of Jesus. Routledge. pp.13–. ISBN 978-1-317-05785-7.

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there)... were thousands of kids done up in tartan pants that didn't reach the top of their shoes, constantly bashing on the plexiglas doors. They would do anything...to get into that television studio. There's 200 kids bashing on the door and a total eclipse of the sun occurred. I'd never seen one. On this day we all stopped in the studio and the Rollers went up on the roof. We stood out there and watched the flowers close up and all the automatic street lighting come on. It was chilling, the most fantastic thing you'd ever see. Downstairs the kids never turned around, staring into the plexiglas waiting to see the Rollers come out of the studio, go down the corridor and into the canteen. (They) never noticed the total eclipse of the sun. a b "Collectionscanada.gc.ca". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 15 October 2012 . Retrieved 16 July 2011. In September 2010, Clark, Ian Mitchell and Pat McGlynn filed a complaint in the courts in the United States against the six members (Faure plus the "classic line-up") over being excluded from the case against Arista records. Clark, Mitchell and McGlynn were seeking to have their rights determined and were seeking financial damages against the other Bay City Rollers for alleged breach of contract. In 2013, a judge in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the three due to the statute of frauds, which establishes that certain agreements must be in writing under certain conditions, and the appellate judge's ruling stated: "A claim for unjust enrichment must be based on the value of plaintiffs' contribution to the joint effort of the band at the time it made the relevant records, not on the income stream resulting from a revival over thirty years later." [39]

McEwen, Alan (17 October 2016). "Bay City Rollers pervert Tam Paton urged band to have sex with paedophile DJ". Daily Record . Retrieved 30 June 2023. Powell, Emma (22 September 2015). "Bay City Rollers announce reunion and world tour for 2016". Standard.co.uk . Retrieved 14 August 2021. New generation Bay City Rollers to perform 2 nights in Tokyo". Japantoday.com . Retrieved 17 October 2019. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 15 October 2012 . Retrieved 16 July 2011.

During the late 2000s, Ian Mitchell led his own Bay City Rollers band, which included lead vocalist Kyle Vincent. Mitchell was the only ex-Roller involved.

Brigitte Tast, Hans-Jürgen Tast: Wie weit ist vorbei? Ein Konzert, eine Party und Meldungen aus der ganzen Welt. Kulleraugen – Visuelle Kommunikation Nr. 48, Schellerten 2016, ISBN 978-3-88842-048-1.

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The A.V. Club compared Ricochet to the pop/new wave style of The Cars and recommended the album be "rescued from obscurity". [19] 1980s–present [ edit ] The classic line-up (minus Derek Longmuir) [22] performed a one-off New Year's Eve millennium concert, the last official Bay City Rollers concert (1999–2000) in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. Interest was rekindled in the UK by various television documentaries about the group; and the television-advertised compilation Very Best of the Bay City Rollers entered the UK Albums Chart on release in 2004 at No.11. [4] In 1996, the classic line-up reunited and performed "Saturday Night" on a Japanese television show to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Rollermania. [20] [21] Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.427. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. a b c Spence, Simon (2016). When The Screaming Stops: The Dark History of the Bay City Rollers. Omnibus Press. pp.33–35. ISBN 9781783237050.