Bay City Rollers: Once Upon A Star
Mitchell Cohen, Phonograph Record, September 1975
THE BAY CITY Rollers campaign is underway, and its components are familiar: screaming female fans in Great Britain, Sid Bernstein masterminding tour plans, back-to-back appearances on network TV (broadcast from the Ed Sullivan Theatre, no less), and a well organized press blitz.
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