BAY CITY ROLLERS. Scottish tartan-clad teeny-bop group who created "Rollermania" hysteria in rising to worldwide fame with a string of hits during the 1970s. Their first single "Keep on Dancing" (1971) reached No9 in the charts and was produced by Jonathon King. It was however two years later in 1973 before the classic line-up of the group ; (Les / Alan / Derek / Woody and Eric) were to repeat success with hits ; Remember and Shangalang. 1975 was to become "their year" with the classic "Bye Bye Baby" No1 for six weeks in the spring (selling over 1 million copies) and "Give A Little Love" becoming No1 in the summer. They also scored a rare US No1 hit for a British group in 1976  with "Saturday Night". Between 1973-1978 the Bay City Rollers sold over 100 million records (including having eleven UK Top 10 singles). The strain of success started to take its toll on various group members by 1976 (original founding member Alan Longmuir left the group) being replaced by 17 year old Ian Mitchell. The group slowly and controversially imploded finally splitting in 1978 when both Les and Eric left (supposedly to pursue solo careers). During the following decades there has sadly remained continued acrimony between the group members over rights issues and various court cases concerning unpaid royalties (thought to be worth in excess of 30 million pounds). The original members as of 2007 finally agreed to try to resolve these and fight together in an attempt to recover "the lost Rollers millions" The groups bass player and founding member Alan Longmuir sadly died after a short illness at the age of 70 on July 2nd 2018.

An extremely rare original 1981 (Property of CBS Demonstration Only Not For Sale) The Rollers Ricochet LP sleeve clearly signed in ballpoints by all five group members of this period ; Eric Faulkner (Rock On) / Alan Longmuir / Derek Longmuir / Stuart Woody Wood and Duncan Faure

12in LP Record Sleeve (Record Included)

Good. View Images. Record is unplayed. Overall we would rate the sleeve condition as 8/10.

This LP was won by Angela as a competition prize with The Sun Newspaper. There is a short note detailing the history included. This album was the third and final release under the band name "The Rollers". In Canada it saw release on Epic Records as "The Brown Bag Album" and later appeared with a promotional sticker which said "The Famous Brownbag Album Now Exposed!". Ricochet can nowadays be considered as the final studio album of the Bay City Rollers discounting later reunion style releases. AFTAL Dealer No13 and UACC RD Memorabilia UK COA

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