The Bay City Rollers: Rollermania begins

February 1974: Number 18 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of pop musicAmerican adolescents had the Osmonds and the Jackson 5 to swoon over in the early 70s, but in Britain the homegrown teen idol cupboard was bare. Then a quintet from Edinburgh hit the charts with a song called Remember (Sha-La-La) and Rollermania was born. For two years, they were the biggest thing in Britain (and Europe, Japan and the US). Such was their hold on a generation that women of a certain age still g...

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