Fresh off a string of global hits, the Scottish band paid homage to the George Young and Harry Vanda track by turning it into a heavy-hitting anthem built for packed arenas. But underneath all that driving beat and crowd noise was a weird piece of irony.
"Yesterday's Hero" was the second-lowest-charting Rollers song in the United States, per Billboard. It peaked at No. 54 in January 1977.
Australian pop singer John Paul Young first recorded the song in February 1975, but when the Bay City Rollers put their own spin on it a year later, the track took on a much heavier meaning. The Scottish teen idols were riding a massive wave of global stardom. However, Les McKeown, Alan and Derek Longmuir, Eric Faulkner, and Stuart “Woody” Wood (later adding Ian Mitchell) chose to record a song that explicitly warned how fast the public moves on to the next big thing for their LP Dedication.
According to an interview with Bay City Rollers member Ian Mitchell, for Goldmine, by the time the Bay City Rollers' popularity came to a close, things were tense within the band.
The band had a resurgence at the tail end of 1977, which landed at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. "You Made Me Believe in Magic" lingered on the charts for 17 weeks in total.
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