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Les McKeown RIP

hoof_it_up_to_benty
hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,450
in Not Sports Related
The king of Rollermania is gone.
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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,621
    Bloody hell. RIP
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,450
    https://youtu.be/uoXJx1dDklc

    Their greatest song...
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,148
    edited April 2021
    Echoed my words shooters. Saw him once in a pub in Dollar in clackmannanshire when I lived nr there. Couldn't get near him. RIP...
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,353
    Bye bye baby....

    RIP
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,225
    Bye, bye baby

    In the era of pretentious prog rock and gruesome cock rock the Rollers harked back to more simple times.

    Great bubble gum pop and a clear influence on the Ramones, Undertones etc

    RIP Les
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    RIP.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    Foot tappin' easy listening stuff. Saw him a couple of times, despite his demons he always put on show. RIP Les.  
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,792
    The wife is gutted. Who remembers the CAFC tartan scarves that were produced at the time the Rollers were in their pomp? 

    RIP Les
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,450
    Addick Addict said:
    The wife is gutted. Who remembers the CAFC tartan scarves that were produced at the time the Rollers were in their pomp? 

    RIP Les
    Every teenage girl loved them in the 70s - they certainly boosted tartan sales.
  • CheshireAddick
    CheshireAddick Posts: 1,305
    Addick Addict said:
    The wife is gutted. Who remembers the CAFC tartan scarves that were produced at the time the Rollers were in their pomp? 

    RIP Les
    Yep, had one of them wrapped round my wrist 😉

    RIP.
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  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,297
    edited April 2021
    As a serius rock/prog/folk fan I hated the Bay City Rollers in their heyday but I later saw them in a seventies revival show (the Les McKeown version) and they were great fun, as were all the other bands. Oddly enough was watching them a couple of days ago in a skit with Lulu.

    RIP Les.
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,762
    Very sad news. I loved the Bay City Rollers and Les in particular.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628
    Didnt he come out as gay recently......or was the lead singer of Mud ?

    Anyway.....not really my scene & more for the girls but still sad when a 70's front man goes

    RIP.

  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,976
    Shocked to hear this.
    RIP Les x
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    Think of the West Stand patrons.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,849
    RIP. Very sad news, especially as he was only 65
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,607
    They were my first pop group.
    I had the socks, a home made tartan scarf and a bag that I proudly took to school on my first day.
    RIP Les and thank you 🙏🏻 ❤️
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    edited April 2021
    golfaddick said:
    Didnt he come out as gay recently......or was the lead singer of Mud ?

    Anyway.....not really my scene & more for the girls but still sad when a 70's front man goes

    RIP.

    Not recently. Years ago he spoke about gay orgies when he was younger. Les Gray died a long time ago.    
  • sadiejane1981
    sadiejane1981 Posts: 9,012
    I’m not going to pretend I knew anything about him or who he was before the references to The Bay City Rollers. Now I know, RIP 
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,450
    edited April 2021
    Rather bizarrely the Ramones were apparently influenced by the Rollers.
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  • ChicagoAddick
    ChicagoAddick Posts: 4,393
    Very sad news. Fun times with a hair brush in the living room listening to the charts. RIP 
  • KettsJohn
    KettsJohn Posts: 1,210
    Yeah evokes memories of getting my mum to sew tartan around the bottom of my trousers. 
    RIP.
  • killer kish
    killer kish Posts: 2,019
    RIP Les
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,225
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Rather bizarrely the Ramones were apparently influenced by the Rollers.
    Nothing Bizarre about it.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,450
    edited April 2021

    Henry Irving said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Rather bizarrely the Ramones were apparently influenced by the Rollers.
    Nothing Bizarre about it.
    • Apparently 
    • The Ramones' famous chant, "Hey, Ho, Let's Go!" is a big part of this song. They wanted their own chant after hearing "Saturday Night" by the Bay City Rollers, which had the chant "S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y, Night."

      Joey Ramone explained: "I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the Bay City Rollers. Their song 'Saturday Night' had a great chant in it, so we wanted a song with a chant in it: 'Hey! Ho! Let's Go!'. 'Blitzkrieg Bop' was our 'Saturday Night'."
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,225
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

    Henry Irving said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Rather bizarrely the Ramones were apparently influenced by the Rollers.
    Nothing Bizarre about it.
    • Apparently 
    • The Ramones' famous chant, "Hey, Ho, Let's Go!" is a big part of this song. They wanted their own chant after hearing "Saturday Night" by the Bay City Rollers, which had the chant "S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y, Night."

      Joey Ramone explained: "I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the Bay City Rollers. Their song 'Saturday Night' had a great chant in it, so we wanted a song with a chant in it: 'Hey! Ho! Let's Go!'. 'Blitzkrieg Bop' was our 'Saturday Night'."
    Exactly
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,450
    Henry Irving said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

    Henry Irving said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Rather bizarrely the Ramones were apparently influenced by the Rollers.
    Nothing Bizarre about it.
    • Apparently 
    • The Ramones' famous chant, "Hey, Ho, Let's Go!" is a big part of this song. They wanted their own chant after hearing "Saturday Night" by the Bay City Rollers, which had the chant "S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y, Night."

      Joey Ramone explained: "I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the Bay City Rollers. Their song 'Saturday Night' had a great chant in it, so we wanted a song with a chant in it: 'Hey! Ho! Let's Go!'. 'Blitzkrieg Bop' was our 'Saturday Night'."
    Exactly
    I never knew this until today..
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,621
    I met him about 10 years ago at a party to open a restaurant by the river in Wandsworth and towards the end of the evening we ended standing and drinking with mutual friends. Seemed a pretty decent guy. 
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,521
    I had the tartan turn-ups. Very sad. RIP.
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,621
    I remember there being a palace away match, possibly the one with the massive riot afterwards, when we all rocked up and a lot of charlton fans were buying the tartan scarves for a pound from a bloke outside the pub by the station. It was the year we got promoted I think, so possibly 1975, when the charlton away support was prolifically knicking scarves off the home team fans and wearing them at the valley so that near the end of the season the covered end was basically full of scarves other than red ones. 

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