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I Ran With The Gang - My Life In And Out Of The Bay City Rollers (Hardcover)
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I Ran With The Gang - My Life In And Out Of The Bay City Rollers (Hardcover)
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The Bay City Rollers were one of the brightest things to happen in
the tumultuous 1970s, illuminating a dark decade marred by falling
stock markets, a plummeting economy and industrial unrest. Alan
Longmuir, an apprentice plumber from Edinburgh, was inspired by The
Beatles to form a band in the 1960s. Firstly, he enlisted his
brother and then his cousin and via throwing a dart at a map they
eventually became the Bay City Rollers. Success was slow in coming
but when it did it was beyond Alan's (and almost everyone else's)
wildest dreams. A string of million selling records led to
Rollermania - a mass-hysterical fan reaction not seen since
Beatlemania. Like a wildfire it spread across the world. The
Rollers' juggernaut was out-of-control. Alan Longmuir recounts his
surreal journey from the Dalry backstreets to the Hollywood hills
and back to being a plumber. Along the way he punctures some of the
myths and untruths that have swirled around the group. Most of all,
though, Alan captures the great adventure that a bunch of young
boys from Edinburgh embarked on that for a few years threatened to
turn the whole world tartan. Tragically, while finishing his
memoirs Alan Longmuir was taken ill while on a holiday in Mexico
marking his 70th birthday and died back in Scotland a short while
later. It was his great desire that I Ran With The Gang should be
released.
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