The Definitive Collection cover

The Definitive Collection

Bay City Rollers

Released

1974

The story of the Bay City Rollers remains one of the most fraught in 20th-century pop music history, with death, abuse and further behind-the-scenes horrors an absolutely central part of the story of the huge wave of boy-band pop mania that swept the band to massive attention in the UK and beyond. Any number of compilations exist; the 2000 compilation The Definitive Collection is as good a starting point as any, with the late-end-of-UK glam stompalongs like “Saturday Night” and “Shang-A-Lang” among others giving a sense of the madness.

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