Bay City Rollers

Bay City Rollers were a pop group from Edinburgh, Scotland. They had ten Top 10 hits in the UK between 1971 and 1976, including two consecutive no.1's in 1975. Their first two albums also made the no.1 spot in the UK 1974 and 1975.

With their good looks and strict 'tartan army' dress code the group became one of the first 'boy bands' in modern pop culture. Such was their popularity, the term "Rollermania" was coined, just as "Beatlemania" had been invented ten years earlier. The group also had their own weekly TV show produced by Granada TV. Entitled 'Shang-a-Lang' after one of their biggest hits, the show ran for one 20-week series in 1975.

The group have continued to disband and reform since their commercial demise in the late seventies.

Founding member Alan Longmuir died in 2018, aged 70, lead vocalist Les McKeown died in 2021, aged 65.

Singles
UK only Notes

Significant dates

 * 30 September 1971 - Top of the Pops debut with Keep On Dancing (26)