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Les McKeown, former lead singer for the Bay City Rollers, the group that became a global phenomenon in the 1970s, died Tuesday at age 65. His family announced the death Thursday in a social media ...
McKeown joined the Bay City Rollers in November 1973, [2] replacing founding lead singer Gordon "Nobby" Clark. [5] He was initially reluctant to join the group, later stating in his memoir that it was not "high on my list of bands I'd have wanted to join". [2]
Les McKeown, the singer of the Scottish '70s band Bay City Rollers, has died at the age of 65. On Thursday, McKeown's family shared the news of his death in a post on social media.
Tributes have been paid to Bay City Rollers singer Les McKeown after he died suddenly at the age of 65. The Scottish pop vocalist, known for his romantic lyrics and flamboyant fashion sense, was ...
The Bay City Rollers are a Scottish pop rock group known for their worldwide teen idol popularity as a boy band in the 1970s. One of many 70s acts heralded as the "biggest group since the Beatles ", [ 4 ] they were called the " tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh", and sold 5 million albums.
Ian Mitchell was a Northern Irish [1] musician. He was a member of Bay City Rollers for seven months in 1976. [2] He was the first non-Scot to join the group. [1] [2] [3]Mitchell was a member of Young City Stars when he was asked by BCR manager Tam Paton to replace Alan Longmuir.
The band's recently recorded track "Saturday Night" was re-voiced by the group's new lead singer, 17 year-old Les McKeown. (In 1975 "Saturday Night" would go on to be an no. 1 in the USA). Bay City Rollers, 1976. The band broke through the UK charts in early 1974 with the song "Remember" (also produced by Coulter and Martin).
Their name eventually changed to Bay City Rollers after throwing a darts at a map of the United States, and the dart landing near Bay City, Michigan. [1] After signing to a record company in 1971, the Rollers would become one of the biggest acts of the 1970s. Bay City Rollers, 1976 Longmuir being Chauffeured into a hospital in Helsinki, Finland