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| Born | November 12, 1955 |
| Hometown | Broomhouse, United Kingdom |
| Height | 5'8" (1.73m) |
| Spouse | Peko |
| Children | Jubei |
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Rollers took on the world with bold bouffants and half-mast tartan troosers
- THEY sang … Shang-a-Lang. Pity really, but there it is. However, before we come to the Bay City Rollers per se, let us first consider my arguably more interesting days as a postie in the Warrender Park district of Edinburgh.
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- CelebrityHuffPost UK
Les McKeown Remembered In Tributes Following Bay City Rollers Singer's Death, Aged 65
His family said he died "suddenly at home" earlier this week.
- CelebrityThe Guardian
Les McKeown, Bay City Rollers frontman, dies aged 65
Les McKeown, Bay City Rollers frontman, dies aged 65. Singer died suddenly at home according to family, with no cause of death announced
- CelebrityPA Media: Entertainment
Tributes paid to Bay City Rollers singer Les McKeown following death
The Scottish band enjoyed huge success in the 1970s.
- CelebrityPA Media: Entertainment
Bay City Rollers singer Les McKeown dies aged 65
The Scottish band enjoyed huge success in the 1970s.
- NewsThe Telegraph
Les McKeown, frontman of the Bay City Rollers, darlings of 1970s teenyboppers whose hits included Bye, Bye, Baby and Give a Little Love – obituary
Les McKeown, who has died aged 65, was the frontman in the Bay City Rollers, the Scottish boy band who took the 1970s music world by storm with “Rollermania”; his vocals were first heard in 1974 on Remember (Sha-La-La-La), which shot to No 6 in the UK charts, heralding the start of band’s most successful period. From the outset McKeown embraced the rock’n’roll lifestyle. “The sex, drugs and booze … were all on tap,” he wrote of life with his previous band, Threshold. Bottles of rum were consumed
- CelebrityThe Independent
Les McKeown death: Bay City Rollers star dies at 65
Frontman’s death was announced by his family
- CelebrityYahoo Celebrity UK
Bay City Rollers star Les McKeown dies aged 65
The singer died suddenly at home.
- EntertainmentThe Guardian
The 30 best boyband members – ranked!
Is erstwhile Blue also-ran Antony Costa purely on this list because, in 2011, he took multi-tasking – a boyband staple, let’s not forget – to extremes by urinating against a cash machine while also withdrawing money and using his phone? Michael Jackson’s nephew TJ, AKA one-third of temporarily successful trio 3T, wore a plaster over his bare chest, sort of near his heart, to signify pain, on the cover of their ludicrously sappy 1996 hit I Need You. Standing out in slightly ropey late-90s R&B/p
- EntertainmentThe Guardian
Alan Longmuir obituary
Alan Longmuir, second left, with, from left: Eric Faulkner, Les McKeown, Stuart Wood and his brother, Derek Longmuir. “Just a plumber from Edinburgh who got lucky” was Alan Longmuir’s dry assessment of his career. To the young girls who lionised his band, the Bay City Rollers, he was considerably more.
- NewsSky News
Bay City Rollers guitarist Alan Longmuir dies at 70
Bay City Rollers guitarist Alan Longmuir has died at the age of 70. The band's frontman, Les McKeown, tweeted a picture of him with the message: "RIP Alan Longmuir. Longmuir's family say he had an "extraordinary heart" and described himself as "just a plumber from Edinburgh who got lucky".
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