19/09/2026
The answer is... The Bay City Rollers.
For those of us old enough to remember them, they were cheesy, they were uncool, but hey, they were incredibly good. And they were HUGE.
Clues as follows:
• Steam Roller = (Roller)
• Scotsman = Tartan / Scotland
• Bye Bye Baby = No relation to a serial killer's comment, but one of their most famous songs.
Well done to all
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The Bay City Rollers formed in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1965 when brothers Alan Longmuir (bass) and Derek Longmuir (drums) teamed up with school friend Gordon "Nobby" Clark to start a pop-rock group. Originally called The Ambassadors, then The Saxons, they famously picked their permanent name by throwing a dart at a map of the United States, which landed near Bay City, Michigan.
After years of shifting lineups, the group solidified into its classic mid-1970s lineup that would conquer the world: the Longmuir brothers, lead singer Les McKeown, and guitarists Eric Faulkner and Stuart "Woody" Wood. Together, they achieved a staggering level of global stardom, selling an estimated 70 million records and triggering a screaming fan hysteria dubbed "Rollermania" by the British press.
Millions of teenage fans proudly wore the band’s trademark calf-length tartan trousers, platform shoes, and matching scarves. Their chart dominance was unmatched during their peak, anchored by an arsenal of infectious, hand-clapping anthems. In 1974, they achieved a massive breakthrough with "Shang-A-Lang," a driving, glam-infused track that reached number two on the UK charts and perfectly encapsulated the foot-stomping rhythm of the era. The song's title became an instant pop-culture catchphrase, and its success directly inspired the name of their highly popular 20-week UK television series, Shang-a-Lang, which premiered in 1975.
They reached an even higher commercial peak in March of that same year with "Bye Bye Baby," a high-energy cover of a Four Seasons track that exploded to number one on the UK Singles Chart, holding the top spot for six consecutive weeks and selling nearly a million copies to become the biggest-selling single of 1975 in Britain.
By 1976, the Rollers successfully broke into the notoriously difficult US market, with their hit "Saturday Night" soaring to number one on the American Billboard Hot 100. They became fixtures on international television—even later starring in an American Saturday morning variety program called The Bay City Rollers Show—and dominated magazine covers across Europe, Japan, and Australasia. While internal conflicts and management disputes eventually cooled their chart run by the late 1970s, the sheer scale of their global fame and the enduring nostalgia of tracks like "Shang-A-Lang" and "Bye Bye Baby" secured their place in pop music history.
