Bay City Rollers: 'Lipstick getting stuck to the windows, fans going berserk'
The Bay City Rollers in 1975. A modern version of the group plays in Cork in February.
In 1976, the Bay City Rollers toured North America for the first time. The biggest date on their promotional schedule was an appearance on the Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell television show.
Cosell, the host, introduced them with a flourish, pulling on an oversized ribbon to reveal the band hidden inside a giant tartan box: “Ladies and gentlemen, all the way from Scotland, England, it’s the Bay City Rollers!” Rollermania had just been unleashed on the United States.
