So What Became Of The Members?
In 1990 Stuart Wood and Alan Longmuir joined with Eric Faulkner to tour under the Bay City Rollers name, and issued several CDs of re-recordings of the old Roller songs.
The classic line-up were filmed for an episode of the VH1 – Behind The Music series in 1998. Around the same time the same line-up (minus Derek) played in Japan for a TV show.
The classic line-up (minus Derek Longmuir) performed a one-off New Year’s Eve millennium concert (1999–2000) in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. Interest was rekindled in the UK by various television documentaries about the group, and a new television advertised compilation of greatest hits, Very Best of the Bay City Rollers, which entered the UK Albums Chart on release in 2004 at #11.
In the 80s, Eric Faulkner formed his own band called The New Rollers and performed in small venues. In the 90s Faulkner and McKeown each regularly toured playing Rollers hits. Due to legal issues over which performers may use the band name, McKeown’s group used the name: Les McKeown’s Legendary Bay City Rollers. At present (2000) there is no official Bay City Rollers. But in the hearts of most 70s Roller fans the Bay City Rollers will only ever be Woody, Eric, Alan, Leslie and Derek.
A recent documentary, Who Got The Rollers’ Millions?, explored the speculation about what happened to the supposed financial fortune the group generated in their career, with accusations that it was defrauded from the group by their management and record company. There are claims that the group sold 100-300 million records and generated the equivalent of five billion pounds in revenue, with the band members themselves earning very little. According to the BBC they sold 70 million records. However, even this figure has been disputed by several sources, not least their former record company.
The classic line-up were filmed for an episode of the VH1 – Behind The Music series in 1998. Around the same time the same line-up (minus Derek) played in Japan for a TV show.
The classic line-up (minus Derek Longmuir) performed a one-off New Year’s Eve millennium concert (1999–2000) in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. Interest was rekindled in the UK by various television documentaries about the group, and a new television advertised compilation of greatest hits, Very Best of the Bay City Rollers, which entered the UK Albums Chart on release in 2004 at #11.
In the 80s, Eric Faulkner formed his own band called The New Rollers and performed in small venues. In the 90s Faulkner and McKeown each regularly toured playing Rollers hits. Due to legal issues over which performers may use the band name, McKeown’s group used the name: Les McKeown’s Legendary Bay City Rollers. At present (2000) there is no official Bay City Rollers. But in the hearts of most 70s Roller fans the Bay City Rollers will only ever be Woody, Eric, Alan, Leslie and Derek.
A recent documentary, Who Got The Rollers’ Millions?, explored the speculation about what happened to the supposed financial fortune the group generated in their career, with accusations that it was defrauded from the group by their management and record company. There are claims that the group sold 100-300 million records and generated the equivalent of five billion pounds in revenue, with the band members themselves earning very little. According to the BBC they sold 70 million records. However, even this figure has been disputed by several sources, not least their former record company.
So what happened to each member of the Bay City Rollers? How did they fare after leaving the group? To find out a bit more about what each member is doing now, please click on links below.