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Their name eventually changed to Bay City Rollers after throwing a darts at a map of the United States, and the dart landing near Bay City, Michigan. [1] After signing to a record company in 1971, the Rollers would become one of the biggest acts of the 1970s. Bay City Rollers, 1976 Longmuir being Chauffeured into a hospital in Helsinki, Finland
The Bay City Rollers are a Scottish pop rock group known for their worldwide teen idol popularity as a boy band in the 1970s. One of many 70s acts heralded as the "biggest group since the Beatles ", [ 4 ] they were called the " tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh", and sold 5 million albums.
Bay City is a city in and the county seat of Bay County, Michigan, United States. The population was 32,661 as of the 2020 census. The city is located just upriver ...
Ian Mitchell was a Northern Irish [1] musician. He was a member of Bay City Rollers for seven months in 1976. [2] He was the first non-Scot to join the group. [1] [2] [3]Mitchell was a member of Young City Stars when he was asked by BCR manager Tam Paton to replace Alan Longmuir.
Wood remains active with the Bay City Rollers and released their new single "Keep On Rollin" August 2024 with a new album to follow. Wood is the only original member of Bay City Rollers in the current lineup. [2] Wood invited original Bay City Rollers singer, Gordon Clark, to re-record "Keep On Dancing", the bands first hit single, in 2024.
The band broke through the UK charts in early 1974 with the song "Remember" (also produced by Coulter and Martin). In the UK during the 1970s, the Bay City Rollers went number one twice, and had 6 records Certified silver and 2 Certified gold. [7] In the late 1980s, Faulkner formed his own version of Bay City Rollers called "The New Rollers".
The Defoe Shipbuilding Company was a small ship builder established in 1905 in Bay City, Michigan, United States. It ceased to operate in 1976 after failing to renew its contracts with the United States Navy. The site of the former company is now being developed for business and housing on the bank of the Saginaw River.
James Allan Barcia (born February 25, 1952) is an American Democratic politician from Michigan.He has served successively in the Michigan House of Representatives, the Michigan Senate, the United States House of Representatives and then again the Michigan Senate, from which he was term-limited in January 2011.