Bay City Roller tells tales of tears, trousers and tartan terrors

Anyone who grew up in the 1970s will remember the Bay City Rollers, the biggest boy band of the era, Edinburgh tartan teen sensations in trademark cropped trousers and platforms, screaming girls fainting at their feet.

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Now Stuart 'Woody' Wood, of the classic Seventies lineup, recalls the band's whirlwind rise to fame when he joined aged 17, the Rollermania hysteria, fall-outs, reunions and court cases, in his memoir Mania.

"It's like you come away from school and many years later you only remember the good things," he says of those heydays which began in 1974, when the classic lineup included Les McKeown, Wood, guitarist Eric Faulkner, bassist Alan Longmuir and his brother Derek on drums.