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Bay City Rollers: Top of the Pops?

Wayne Robins, The Village Voice, 8 September 1975

IF YOU believe, as I do, that 'Sugar Sugar' was a brilliant record, you may like the Bay City Rollers. On the other hand, it hardly matters. The Rollers play for kids, and in recent months have been turning groups of female children in the British Isles into destructive mindless mobs wherever they appear. Sid Bernstein, the American promoter who brought the Beatles to Shea Stadium, thinks they will be the next supernatural thing.

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