The Bay City Rollers: Rollers' American Civil War
Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 11 September 1976
THE STATE TROOPER, with his tall hat perched firmly on a head with very little hair, seemed to be in control. One hand grasped a small hand receiver and the other twitched nervously to his side, where a two-foot long night stick hung from a belt that also supported a revolver capable of killing a man at one hundred paces.
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