Posted on 04/22/2021 12:43:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
>> Their influence can be seen and heard both on power-pop and the eventual resurgence of the “boy band” phenomenon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csXFpFoRkEk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi9a7IdRiBI
McKeown had an interesting career; he was quite talented as a performer but tended to get into scrapes. The Bay City Rollers sold almost as many records as The Beatles; after an extensive road trip, McKeown went back to Scotland thinking he would spend some of the fortune the group had made only to discover there was no money (seems to happen in entertainment with “overhead”) and there was a lien on his house for the mortgage not being paid. He also got into a physical fight with another band member on the stage in Tokyo during a performance at the Budekahn.
Just kidding, RIP Les.
Your group was a 70's icon.
My thoughts exactly lol
There was a time when everyone thought they would be the next Beatles. Long story short, it didn’t work out.
I grew up in Bay City MI. The legendary dart throw.
When they came to receive the key to the city, my friends older sister drove us downtown to see the shtshow.
Tartan puke fest. My friend and I were working out Rush songs at 13.
Anyway, on the way back over the river we wound up next to their limo.
They rolled the back window down and the whole band waved at us before the cop car did a breaking maneuver.
Pretty cool honestly. Shthole town, shtshow kids.
RIP MF, thanks for rolling your window down, you’re smile.
Bay City Rollers >>>>>>>> Rush
Not as bad but I read where the Stones didn’t own much of their early song catalogue. Some of their biggest hits.
Yep, Howard Cosell was the main one pushing them for his variety show.
https://www.loudersound.com/features/story-behind-the-song-blitzkrieg-bop-by-the-ramones
“There was a big hit by the Bay City Rollers at the time called Saturday Night, which was a chant-type song,” says ex-drummer Tommy Ramone. “So I thought it would be fun to do for the Ramones too. And somehow I came up with ‘Hey! Ho! Let’s go!’ I just liked the term because it made fun of Mick Jagger singing the Stones’ version of Walking The Dog, where he goes ‘High low, tippy toe’. We all used to goof on that and sing ‘hey ho!’ instead.”
...“The original title of the song was Animal Hop. [Bassist] Dee Dee came up with Blitzkrieg Bop because he wanted to Ramones-ize it. And he changed one line. It used to be ‘They’re shouting in the back now’ and he rewrote it to ‘Let’s go shoot ‘em in the back now’. This might have led to the conspiracy ideas, but they’re not the original lyrics of the song. Dee Dee came up with the title and that line, but the rest of it is mine.”
https://nightswithalicecooper.com/2020/06/10/blitzkrieg-bop-the-ramones/
Despite the military connotations of the title, the song itself is actually good, clean fun, according to the late Joey Ramone. “I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the Bay City Rollers. Their song ‘Saturday Night’ had a great chant in it, so we wanted a song with a chant in it: ‘Hey! Ho! Let’s go!’ ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’ was our ‘Saturday Night.’”
I remember in high school that first song you posted, Saturday Night and then this one. I Only Want to Be With You.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CGD27WgtKhI
Actually they were the first archetype boy band.
They were posers. No real talent. Just 4 Johnny Bravos.
Were you friends with Madonna?
What about the Beatles?
Opposite ends of a spectrum.
“Saturday night”
.. those two words have made a lot of money for some people.
“S A T U R D A Y NIGHT!
S A T U R D A Y NIGHT!
S A T U R D A Y NIGHT!”
Back in the day we used that to ridicule the musical taste of people who had none.
My husband has cousins who went to school with her.
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