Bay City Rollers’ fans were left disgusted and saddened by the omission of Edinburgh singer Les McKeown from this year's Royal Variety Performance tributes to those in the showbiz world who left us in 2021.
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Les McKeown, frontman of the Bay City Rollers, darlings of 1970s teenyboppers whose hits included Bye, Bye, Baby and Give a Little Love – obituary
Starting out from Edinburgh in the 1960s, in the following decade they conquered the world with their Scots brand of sunny bubblegum pop
22 April 2021 • 7:36pm
Bay City Rollers in 1974, l-r, Alan Longmuir, Derek Longmuir, Les McKeown, Stuart ‘Woody’ Wood and Eric Faulkner
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Les McKeown, who has died aged 65, was the frontman in the Bay City Rollers, the Scottish boy band who took the 1970s music world by storm with “Rollermania”; his vocals were first heard in 1974 on Remember (Sha-La-La-La), which shot to No 6 in the UK charts, heralding the start of band’s most successful period.
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