We honor the late Les McKeown with a look at his group the Bay City Rollers' first and only Hot 100 No. 1, the timeless weekend anthem "Saturday Night ... s 1974 debut album Rollin‘, he ...

They settled on the Rollers ... “Saturday Night,” which was released in 1975. The song went No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and skyrocketed the group to worldwide fame. Even though the Bay ...

Scottish pop singer Les McKeown, best known as the frontman of the wildly successful 1970s bubblegum-glam band the Bay City Rollers ... signature song, “Saturday Night” — the original ...

with “Saturday Night” in 1976. McKeown also reunited with the Bay City Rollers in 2015 for a reunion tour, just several years before his death on April 20, 2021, at the age of 65. As of 2018 ...

THE original lead singer of the Bay City Rollers has recorded ... We knew we had that Rollers sound and it was used on Remember (Sha-La-La-La) and Saturday Night because they were recorded in ...

Exploding onto the music scene in the early 70’s, the Bay City Rollers debut album “Rollin” was ... Edinburgh’ performed on the iconic Saturday Night Live in 1976, with the suitably ...

Les McKeown was the original voice on every Bay City Rollers ... stayed in the UK album charts for 99 weeks between 1974 and 1976 by which time the group were also consistently in the US top ten with ...

For five years back in the 1970s, Les McKeown, who has died aged 65, was the lead singer of Scottish boy band, the Bay City Rollers ... a TV appearance on Saturday Night Showcase, their recording ...

Or, at the very least, you might be talking to someone who just harks on about the 'good old days' with the Bay City Rollers when ... on the iconic Saturday Night Live in 1976, with the suitably ...

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In 1976, the Bay City Rollers toured North America for the first time. The biggest date on their promotional schedule was an appearance on the Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell television show.