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.Â
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.
General
| Imprint: |
Luath Press Ltd
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
November 2021 |
| Authors: |
Alan Longmuir
• Martin Knight
|
| Introduction by: |
Alwyn Turner
|
| Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
288 |
| Edition: |
2nd edition |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-910022-75-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-910022-75-6 |
| Barcode: |
9781910022757 |
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