Long before the massed hordes of One Direction, Take That and Boyzone, Alan Longmuir had the fortune and the misfortune to find stardom with the Bay City Rollers.
The fortune was ostentatiously manifest. Clad in a bizarre tartan uniform of calf-length trousers, tank tops and scarves, the Scottish group raced to the top of the charts with Bye Bye Baby and Give A Little Love as Rollermania swept the land.
Teenage girls screamed and swooned and a staff of 17 were employed to answer the group’s fan mail as they were hailed as “the biggest thing since the Beatles”.
After the Bay City Rollers went to No 1 in America, Longmuir lived for a time in Hollywood, where he had breakfast with Barbra Streisand, partied