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I Ran With The Gang

- My Life In And Out Of The Bay City Rollers
Af: Martin Knight, Alan Longmuir Engelsk Paperback

I Ran With The Gang

- My Life In And Out Of The Bay City Rollers
Af: Martin Knight, Alan Longmuir Engelsk Paperback
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The Bay City Rollers were one of the brightest things to happen in the tumultuous 1970s, illuminating a dark decade marred by falling stock markets, a plummeting economy and industrial unrest. 

Alan Longmuir, an apprentice plumber from Edinburgh, was inspired by The Beatles to form a band in the 1960s. Firstly, he enlisted his brother and then his cousin and via throwing a dart at a map they eventually became the Bay City Rollers. Success was slow in coming but when it did it was beyond Alan’s (and almost everyone else’s) wildest dreams.

A string of million selling records led to Rollermania – a mass-hysterical fan reaction not seen since Beatlemania. Like a wildfire it spread across the world. The Rollers’ juggernaut was out-of-control. Alan Longmuir recounts his surreal journey from the Dalry backstreets to the Hollywood hills and back to being a plumber.

Along the way he punctures some of the myths and untruths that have swirled around the group. Most of all, though, Alan captures the great adventure that a bunch of young boys from Edinburgh embarked on that for a few years threatened to turn the whole world tartan.

Tragically, while finishing his memoirs Alan Longmuir was taken ill while on a holiday in Mexico marking his 70th birthday and died back in Scotland a short while later. It was his great desire that I Ran With The Gang should be released.

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The Bay City Rollers were one of the brightest things to happen in the tumultuous 1970s, illuminating a dark decade marred by falling stock markets, a plummeting economy and industrial unrest. 

Alan Longmuir, an apprentice plumber from Edinburgh, was inspired by The Beatles to form a band in the 1960s. Firstly, he enlisted his brother and then his cousin and via throwing a dart at a map they eventually became the Bay City Rollers. Success was slow in coming but when it did it was beyond Alan’s (and almost everyone else’s) wildest dreams.

A string of million selling records led to Rollermania – a mass-hysterical fan reaction not seen since Beatlemania. Like a wildfire it spread across the world. The Rollers’ juggernaut was out-of-control. Alan Longmuir recounts his surreal journey from the Dalry backstreets to the Hollywood hills and back to being a plumber.

Along the way he punctures some of the myths and untruths that have swirled around the group. Most of all, though, Alan captures the great adventure that a bunch of young boys from Edinburgh embarked on that for a few years threatened to turn the whole world tartan.

Tragically, while finishing his memoirs Alan Longmuir was taken ill while on a holiday in Mexico marking his 70th birthday and died back in Scotland a short while later. It was his great desire that I Ran With The Gang should be released.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9781910022757
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave: 2
ISBN-10: 1910022756
Udg. Dato: 15 nov 2021
Længde: 27mm
Bredde: 199mm
Højde: 130mm
Forlag: Luath Press Ltd
Oplagsdato: 15 nov 2021
Forfatter(e): Martin Knight, Alan Longmuir
Forfatter(e) Martin Knight, Alan Longmuir


Kategori Selvbiografier: kunst og underholdning


ISBN-13 9781910022757


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 288


Udgave 2


Længde 27mm


Bredde 199mm


Højde 130mm


Udg. Dato 15 nov 2021


Oplagsdato 15 nov 2021


Forlag Luath Press Ltd

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