Do you remember The Bay City Rollers? The lead singer, Les McKeown, is dead.

Couldn't he have waited until Saturday Night?

As we were part Scottish, we were obsessed with them. My sister’s whole room was plastered in posters and she went to the concert when they came to town. Everyone wore plaid. Such a 70s memory.

You’re supposed to title this: Les McKeown, lead singer of The Bay City Rollers, is DEAD TO ME!!

no, but I don't do the is DEAD TO ME!! thing - it's nauseating.

My first thought was "is this the one who is a paedo?" And no, it isn't.

Their American number 1 was never released in the UK.

And that's it.

[quote] no, but I don't do the is DEAD TO ME!! thing - it's nauseating.

Blasphemy! Exit DL and go back to your dismal life this instant.

S - A - T - U - R - D - A- Y - NIGHT!

Saturday night will never be the same again!

It's like when Doug Fieger died...I never thought I was going to stop, and then I gave it up.

[quote]Blasphemy! Exit DL and go back to your dismal life this instant.

Shut up! you're annoying me.

We dressed up as them and “played” some tunes in our school talent show. We were awesome. Then I recycled the costume for Halloween.

They were AWFUL. I was about 10 when they hit and even I could see it. Tacky, ugly crap.

You wouldn’t stick your nose up my ass now would you, Dora?

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[quote] My first thought was "is this the one who is a paedo?" And no, it isn't.

It was the drummer of the group that's the paedo.

Gosh I loved Saturday Night! Everyone piled onto the skate floor whenever it was played.

In my school they were The Gay City Rollers and if you listened to their music it meant you had to be gay.

MBS + Tri Cities

Midland, Bay City and Saginaw. I thought they were a Michigan band when they 1st came out! LOL!

Did he die of natural causes?

No sympathy after the way he murdered BE MY BABY.

Thank you, OP, for not posting in that stupid "DEAD to me" format.

Will he be buried in a kilt?

My mum was a fan. That’s all I know about them.

She also loved Mud, David Essex, Demis Roussos (solo, not with the superlative Aphrodite’s Child) and The Osmonds, so her musical opinions are not to be trusted nor taken seriously.

He is the 3rd Bay City Roller to die. Alan and Ian are also gone.

Bi City Roller RIP

Bye, Bye, Baby

All this time I thought the Bay City Rollers were Irish, all the plaid makes sense now.

I vividly remember their thick haggises crammed behind thin fabric.

They were nothing but tartan, bad teeth, and foreskin.

I thought Eric was the hottest roller.

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I thought Eric was the hottest roller.

[quote] no, but I don't do the is DEAD TO ME!! thing - it's nauseating.

and unfunny. It boggles me why so many people here think it's clever.

I thought they only had one hit in America but they had 3 top 10s and 3 more that made the top 40. They came right after Donny osmond but were pushed aside for Andy gibb and Shaun Cassidy

OMG I remember they compared them to THE BEATLES!

"ROLLERMANIA"

I enjoyed his sister as “Jo” on The Facts of Life.

Where’s Larry king?

He's dead too.

So were they from Bay City, Michigan?

They were certainly from another world.

Yes. They were from Bay City.

The were the #1Ranked Roller Ball team for six consecutive seasons.

Which one got his big hard dick out in a hardcore porn magazine shoot?

I remember it was a really nice dick.

[quote]So were they from Bay City, Michigan?

No, they're from Scotland. Legend says that they needed a name and threw a dart at a map. It landed on Bay City Michigan.

Here they are on Wolfman Jack. Pretty mediocre performance.

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[quote]Which one got his big hard dick out in a hardcore porn magazine shoot?

Who cares? None of them were cute.

This thread is one of those threads that keeps me here at Datalounge. Where else is anyone having these discussions?

In Bay City?

I thought Derek was the only Roller who was gay?

OOOMG!

[quote]In 2000,Derek Longmuir was sentenced to 300 hours' community service after admitting possessing child pornography. Owing to his conviction, he was fired from his job at the Infirmary although he was later readmitted to the nursing register. Despite his guilty plea, he maintained that[bold] the offending materials did not belong to him but were left behind by an acquaintance.[/bold] Longmuir said he pleaded guilty in hope of avoiding a "media circus".

There's a thread somewhere on DL about celebrities who got normal jobs after their moment of fame. Derek went from being in a huge band (for its time) to working as a nurse.

Bye bye Leo.

Weren't they abused sexually by their manager?

He definitely liked the men