Bay City Rollers To Play Comeback Show

The Bay City Rollers are bringing back their tartan outfits and catchy tunes after announcing a comeback tour 40 years on from the height of their fame.

The Scottish band, which formed in the late 1960s, had a huge teen following in their 70s heyday and sold more than 100 million records.

Rollermania took over both at home and abroad following as their hits Bye Bye Baby and Shang-a-Lang stormed the charts.

Les McKeown, Alan Longmuir and Stuart Wood from the original line-up have promised "a very special Christmas present to all the fans that have kept the faith with the band over the years" with a gig at Glasgow's Barrowland on 20 December.

At a news conference in Glasgow, frontman McKeown said: "I'm feeling great, I'm feeling fabulous.

"It's been hard work on everyone's part, maybe I instigated it a couple of years ago when I mentioned on TV that I'd love to get back with the guys and that put a little seed in everyone's head.

"Slowly but surely we started to gravitate towards each other again."

The original line-up also included Eric Faulkner and Derek Longmuir, and the band said Faulkner may join them in the next few weeks.

The band rose to fame producing numerous top 10 hits, sell-out tours and their own TV show before splitting in 1978, with bitter battles over money between band members and managers dragging on for decades.

Court cases are still continuing to resolve a dispute over royalties owed to the group and McKeown said money has been a factor in the reunion.

"I think the three of us have made (fans') dreams come true and the fans are the reason that we're doing it - that and the money of course."

He joked: "We'll probably never see a penny, it'll be a repeat of the last 40 years."