The classic lineup of the Bay City Rollers featured singer Wes McKeown, guitarists Eric Faulkner and Stuart “Woody” Wood, bassist Alan Longmuir, and drummer Derek Longmuir. But were they enough to replace John, Paul, George, and Ringo?
Their performance by the "tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh” ended with a fan stage invasion that landed McKeown and Wood in the hospital, according to BBC. On September 30, the band landed in the U.S. for the first time and was greeted by more frantic fans.
The song “Saturday Night” was a huge hit, hitting the Billboard Hot 100 by October 1975 and eventually soaring to No. 1.
In an interview with Creem at the height of the “Saturday Night” success, the band’s manager, Tam Paton, said he hoped fans would be in a frenzy for the Rollers for years to come.
“We’re not saying we’re bigger than the Beatles,” he added. “I’m not even bringing the Beatles into it. They were fantastic. They were great. And at the time, they were the biggest thing since sliced bread. I just hope people will talk about the Rollers the same way they talk about the Beatles in ten years time. And I believe, deeply, that they will.”
In a 2024 interview with Glasgow World, Wood said of the band, “The fame side of it was 1974 to 1978. I would say it was hysterical. It was madness. It was crazy times. …When the success went downhill and we stopped selling records, it didn't matter to me, because I was still playing music, still in the band, still gigging, and we still got some kind of audience and still had the music to play.”
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