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Bay City Rollers Saturday Night, 1976

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Fed Up
Fed Up
10 days ago

And their manager was a pedophile.

Rosey
Rosey
10 days ago
Reply to  Fed Up

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/comment/scotlands-jimmy-savile-tam-paton-30365941

Much more than that it would seem. Why are these “high profile” types NEVER outed?

marie
marie
10 days ago
Reply to  seeray

Here’s something

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Rosey
Rosey
10 days ago

The Guardian March 2000.

“Derek Longmuir, a founder member of the Seventies pop group Bay City Rollers, was sentenced to 300 hours of community service at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for possessing child p*********y. Longmuir, who has been suspended from his job as a nurse at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, refused to comment when he left court.
The drummer of the Scottish group, now 49, pleaded guilty earlier this month to having indecent films, videos and photos of children at his Edinburgh home. He also admitted making indecent photos of children at his home in March 1998.

His lawyer, Robbie Burnett told Edinburgh Sheriff Court that Longmuir was “not a paedophile and was not someone who engages in child sex nor somebody terribly interested in child p**n”.
Robbie Burnett concluded that, “He deplores and disapproves of the exploitation of children for any of these purposes.”
Sheriff Isobel Poole deferred sentence on Longmuir, of Queens Park Court, Edinburgh, until today for psychiatric, social inquiry and community service reports.
The court heard how Lothian and Borders Police serious crime squad officers found the material after a raid on Derek Longmuir’s home in September 1998 following a tip-off. Police seized computers, videos and floppy disks from the house, which were pointed out to the officers by Longmuir.
Twenty-two videos out of 153 seized and six projector reels contained child p**n. 1,000 images were recovered out of the 73 floppy disks confiscated, and some of these showed sex involving children. Longmuir initially claimed they belonged to an American friend.
Derek Longmuir started the Bay City Rollers with his brother, Alan, and – after teaming up with lead singer Les McKeown and guitarists Stuart ‘Woody’ Wood and Eric Faulkner – achieved international fame with a string of hits, including Shang-a-Lang, Give a Little Love and Bye Bye Baby.
Derek Longmuir gave up pop fame in the early 80s, and ten years ago started training to become a nurse after helping out voluntarily at the Sick Children’s Hospital in Edinburgh. He qualified in 1993 to work at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.”

A kids hospital. And here we are again with community service.

marie
marie
10 days ago
Reply to  Rosey

Disgusting he needs put out of everyone’s misery

crisspf
crisspf
10 days ago
Reply to  Rosey

a monster just like jimmy savile – lurking around hospitals and orphanages.
I really don.t understand why any lawyer would defend this creep, any creep! with enough evidence against him. ,,…nor somebody terribly interested in child p**n,,. Really? That sounds like another pedo defending the other pedo. Pedo by association.

Rosey
Rosey
10 days ago

The Mirror Feb 2009.

“As the singer with squeaky-clean 70s boyband the Bay City Rollers, heartthrob Les McKeown helped fan the flames of Rollermania.
Back then the Scottish pop rockers could barely move without being mobbed by a tartan-clad army of teenage girls – screaming for their favourite Roller, begging for autographs and singing along to Shang-A-Lang.
Those shrieking fans would soon be silenced by today’s shocking revelation that one of their heroes has been living a secret gay life for the past 30 years.
Certainly Les stunned wife Peko. She had no idea he has been meeting strange men for sex throughout their marriage until he admitted it in front of cameras for a TV documentary!
Last year, 53-year-old Les was offered a free place at Passages, a radical rehab clinic in Malibu, California.
His liver was on its last legs after years of him downing two bottles of Wild Turkey bourbon a day. His GP had told him in no uncertain terms he had to quit boozing, or he wouldn’t live to see 2009.
Les’s marriage was also on the rocks because his alcoholism had turned him into “a complete b*****d”.
Rehab was a chance he had to take, especially since a TV company would be picking up the £55,000 bill.
The ethos at Passages is that addiction is a symptom of underlying emotional problems. Initially dubious, Les ended up telling a therapist a secret he had never shared with anyone – not even Peko. He claims that aged 19, at the height of the Rollers’ fame, he was raped by another man.
Les says: “Date rape is the best way I can think of to explain how I was cajoled into a situation through drugs into having sex with another man.
“It happened in America in a hotel room. I was given Quaaludes, a drug for lowering your inhibitions and making you horny. If a girl took it she’d be all over you.
“Afterwards I felt really used and abused. I never told anybody about it, not even the other guys in the band, because I was ashamed.
“Maybe part of the shame was that I’d actually enjoyed it. Before that, I’d always thought I was straight, but what was happening to me was very erotic and I felt pleasure from it.
“Now I think a lot of the shame I’ve felt ever since has to do with the person who did that to me. I hated him.
“I tried to drink it away and push that memory into obscurity. The knock-on effect was that I found myself attracted to men, and now and again I’ve taken action on that.” Pressed to define “now and again”, Les reckons “a couple of times a month” but he later backtracks and admits to a dozen gay partners in all.
He says: “I’ve been a bit of a George Michael, meeting people, often strangers, for sex. Not in public toilets – I’m not big on the unhygienic side of things.
“These days you’d meet online and figure out a place where to meet – your place or mine. I certainly wouldn’t introduce myself as Les from the Bay City Rollers.
“I’d say my name was Les but they weren’t really interested in surnames. We weren’t going on dates, we were just getting together for sex.
“I had a couple of regulars I’d see quite a lot of, but I didn’t have what you would call a relationship with them. It was just meeting the same person for sex.
“I don’t think I ever put myself in dangerous situations and I think I’m a good judge of character. I have had an Aids test.
“I’d always use protection but sometimes, because of the drinking, I couldn’t remember what I was doing last night and there was that nagging fear: what if? Afterwards there was no guilt or shame, and Peko would be none the wiser.”
Until, that is, his Japanese wife, who he met in 1979, and the couple’s 24-year-old son, Jubei, were flown out to Passages to hear this bombshell for themselves – on camera. Was she angry?
“She was, yeah,” admits Les, who was also unfaithful with other women. “She said, ‘You little s***!’ I’ve kept this secret from her for all these years because I was afraid of losing everything I’d got. But I think she was relieved when I did tell her.
“She told me she did have suspicions about my sexuality. Actually, I think my bisexuality is a minor thing compared to what else she’s had to put up with.
“She did cry when she found out, but she’s been crying for the past 15 years. But she would hardly ever cry in front of me because Mr Nasty B*****d would say, ‘What the f*** are you crying for?’
“Most of the time I just wasn’t around. I’d be in the pub at nine in the morning, come home for a sleep around one o’clock, and then go back around 3pm to see my mates. Mr Drunk would come out and I’d drink to show off. Sometimes I’d pass out in the pub and they’d have to call an ambulance because they couldn’t wake me up.”
On the rare occasions that Les was at home it was, if anything, even worse.
“I never raised my fists to my wife or my son, but abuse doesn’t have to be physical. I can’t believe how absolutely abhorrent I’ve been towards people that I love.
“I would go out of my way to put my wife or my son down any way I could. I would tell her, ‘Just f*** off, you stupid Jap.’
“It was all just me, me, me. You try to destroy other people. You want them to be as f****d up as you are so you try to bring them down. Peko did leave me, but she always came back, she wanted to help me.”
Peko is still standing by him – for now.
“I’ve apologised to Peko,” says Les, who is also repairing his relationship with his son. “We’re going to see how things go.”
Is he worried what the wider public reaction might be to his confession?
He says: “When I agreed to do the TV series I didn’t think I’d end up talking about things like this, but I feel relieved now it’s out in the open. I think it will give me the opportunity to blossom a little bit.
“If you’ve got a secret and you’re a rotten lying b*****d you always have to be careful of your lies. Now that I don’t have a secret I can’t get found out, can I?
“I don’t think you can just spend a month in rehab and be fixed, but I’m about 90 per cent fixed. I’ve had 20 years of being an alcoholic and a secret bisexual, so the other 10 per cent will take a bit longer.
“Since I’ve come out of Passages I had three glasses of red wine one day and I thought, ‘I can handle this’. Then I felt the old darkness coming in and I stopped.
“I do still want a drink sometimes, especially when I’m stressed. But since I’ve been home I’ve not had the inclination to phone anybody and say, ‘Do you fancy a sexual encounter in the woods?’
“Maybe now it’s not a secret it’s not so naughty any more.” ”

Without comment.

Rosey
Rosey
10 days ago
Reply to  seeray

Innit. I didn’t even want to put the stuff about their manager.

marie
marie
10 days ago
Reply to  Rosey

Well if that doesn’t make your skin crawl. That poor woman is still there…

Little Italy
Little Italy
10 days ago

Is that a screenshot of the Dutch popmusic-tvshow TopPop ?
That show had more such masonic backdrops over the years…..and artists.

solarsavior
solarsavior
10 days ago

Great. One of my earliest childhood memories destroyed.

My earliest as far as songs is “Joy to the World” by Three Dog Night because I found that “Jeremiah was a bullfrog” was funny. I’m sure one of you will show up to tear that up.

Once one can see their symbolism it is impossible to miss. That ladder in the pool and the upper left of this video give me Biltmore hotel vibes.

Rosey
Rosey
9 days ago
Reply to  solarsavior

I wasn’t a fan but my mam was. Sickening.

rick
rick
4 days ago

The music industry and entertainment industry as a whole is a cesspool of filth.