Were you in Sheffield with these Bay City Rollers fans watching your heroes in the 70s?
By Julia Armstrong
Published 4th Jun 2021, 08:17 BST
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The death of lead singer Les McKeown lately led us to rediscover these great pictures of 1970s stars the Bay City Rollers in Sheffield and their obsessive teenage fans.
The band’s screaming fans were nicknamed the Tartan Army by newspapers because they copied their Scottish idols’ costumes of half-mast trousers and plenty of tartan checks. Spiky hair and stripy socks completed the look. The Rollers had a string of bubblegum pop hits such as Bye Bye Baby, Shang-a-Lang and Give a Little Love.
Model Twiggy blocks her ears against the sound of pop group Bay City Rollers having a go on the bagpipes at a TV show in 1976 Photo: Robin Jones/Evening Standard/Getty Images
Bay City Rollers members Ian Mitchell, Les McKeown, Stuart Wood and Derek Longmuir board a plane at Edinburgh airport for a promotional tour of the USA in April 1976 Photo: Albert Jordan