My older sister who is 10 yrs older than me had her bedroom walls covered in posters by this band and had tartan scarfs pinned to her wall. One of my earliest memories. ❤ didn’t really know their music but always smile when I hear about them ❤
Les used to come to my brother's garage , were I also worked , in hackney east London , he used to make the tea when we were busy , a really down to earth guy , had some great stories to tell , I was sad to hear of his passing , my condolences to his family ,
@@claudemarchand1196 you may well be right , good insight , we all had similar childhoods , I was younger than my brother, when my older brother introduced me too les and told me he was from the roller,s , I replied who ? Les smiled and took no offense , my brother is six years older than me , I genuinely did not know , once I looked him up I was impressed by him , so humble , the finest attribute anybody can have , and despite his success it never changed him , I only knew les for a few years in late 80,s early 90,s , and moved to an another part of london , I never seen him again after that , but the great stories he told us when my brother pestered him enough , seemed like tall tales when he told us , but no doubt true , I carry today and still get a laugh about when I think about a small group of working class Scottish lads taking over the world ,
I saw The Rollers in 1977 in Philadelphia, PA. The Tower Theater. We waited online for hours to get tickets. Seeing them is one of my fondest teenage memories. RIP Les, you truly were loved by many.
Les was a lovely man who could sing a good song and tell a good joke. I loved his witty sense of humour, he always made me laugh. The Bay City Rollers were big in their time. I was only 12 years of age in 1975, but i remember them very well. In fact that year of 1975 i won a colouring in competition taking in numerous schools in the area. My dear beloved mother who passed away recently bought me an entire Bay City Roller outfit to wear to the prize giving ceremony. Ive never forgot it and ive never forgot the Bay City Rollers. Rest in peace Les.
One of my favorite bands and singer.Glad I got to see him in concert in 1977.Rest in peace 🕊️ always loved and remembered I will always be a Roller maniac
One of my first crushes as a child. I remember my older sisters covering the bedroom walls with their posters. I couldn’t wait for their tartan socks to be handed down to me! RIP Les ❤
I’m was lucky to see the rollers live and also see Les in his later life performing all the hits and i have to say i was so pleased to have this in my life thank you one and all..👍
My teenage years were filled with the music of the BCR and the first love in my life was Leslie. A mixture of attraction and loving feelings ...and I was only 12 when it started. Good memories! The BCR were an important part of my life!!! Never forgotten! I saw them in concert in Offenbach/ Germany ..one if my most treasured experiences of those years.Had no idea then about their struggles. Didn't have a clue he was bisexual ....family as it turned out! Of course I didn't have a real life relationship with him, but it sure felt and still feels like he and they gave me a lot of good in my life. Thank you , Les, and thank you BCR for all my wonderful memories and for the music that at the time inspired me and filled my heart with so much joy!
R.I.P., Les. Thanks for the music, three concerts I attended, and so many good times. I got a radio DJ gig in 1978, and the first record I played was "You Made Me Believe In Magic". As a Rollers' nod, I'd sign off each day saying to my listeners "All of me loves all of you!". Love to Les and the rest of the band, now and always.
Brilliantly done. THANK YOU, I absolutely loved this. I loved him for years and years. Now I’m misty eyed thinking about those days! I really appreciate the depth you go into with these videos. Loved it❤️
I made a snarky comment on one of their videos about 5 or 6 years ago. Just a little throwaway joke, and I was shocked that Les himself replied and he was quite hurt and defensive. It taught me a lesson that YES sometimes the person you are joking about might read the comments. RIP Les. Your music was lightweight pop though.
Yep, 99% of the chart is lightweight poppy music. At their peak the Rollers sold millions of records & brought towns to a standstill when they arrived for concerts. I only ever saw The Beatles & David Cassidy do that. In real life, Les was humorous, self deprecating & racked with insecurities. It had been a rough ride but hopefully he's at peace now.
*Rest In Peace, Les. Comfort to your Family and Close Friends.* _Torphichen!_ I, once upon a time, played bass in a band, in Livingston, West Lothian. The keyboard player was my/your (?) friend: Wattie Black, who played with the BCR before they became rightly famous. I went on to be the bassist of an early, but nonetheless successful, version of _Blues 'n' Trouble._ Happy Days/Daze ... Perhaps we will meet, one of these Auld Afternoons, upon a better Astral Plane. By the way, another friend of yours/mine is David (Davie) Paton! ( The band *Pilot* - _January_ and _Magic_ .) *No relation to Tam Paton!* Stay free, Les, wherever you may be. Wishing you and yours well. Rab 💚 👋 PS. *Rest In Peace, Ian Bairnson.* 🕊
Les remained a good looking man through all his problems. I was in love with him at 13 and had his and the band's pics all over my side of the bedroom I shared with my sister. He had a bit of fame and is still remembered, so his life was a good one overall
Miss him 💔 Saw him with the Rollers in the mid 70s and several times in the years before he died with The Legendaries. His shows were like a big party and he had such a good rapport with the audience.
Fond memories of dancing in my local youth club aged 15 to the BCR's great music & thinking that they were gods (oh the good days) Les had so much chrisma /charm /looks he was the ideal front man RIP
What a gorgeous looking human, wow him in early years with long hair, what can you say, thanx Les for being part of my life, saw the BCR in 1976; you couldn’t hear him singing because of the screaming but I couldn’t care less, what a time in history, everything was so different then 👍🇦🇺❤️
Leslie was my favorite, I had a big crush on him and I was only 10. Every time someone in my past dies a little part of me dies. I want to live in that time forever. I hate the present time. If I could I would die right now.
To young to know what was going on around them. The Bay City Rollers were worked to death by Paton and the record company. They didnt have the time or the energy to realise they were being robbed blind. Its sad they never got the money they worked so hard for.
I remember my cousin used to wear trousers with tartan down the side and the jacket was the same and they would rap tarten scarfs around there wrist I thought she looked so cool I was 7 she was 15 happy days🇮🇪
Not only that, their manager and possibly the record company ripped them off on the music and memorabilia, but they didn't even get royalties on every air play . They should have been millionaire's.
They came for a riding lesson at breezemount riding school in ireland. I remember telling them they had the wrong footwear on to ride horses. I had no interest and nobody believed i didnt ask for an autograph. I was in love with david cassidy.
There was a girl in my school back in the day who was in dress making class . When the rollers come to power ... she charged other girls for stitching tartan cloth edging onto jeans and denim tops and selling long scarves . She made bridal wear after she left .
@@elizabethrennick9407 well England protects their paedophiles....look at the music industry from the last 5 decades, with Jimmy Saville and partners, everyone knew about, its aweful........even the royal family keeps creep Randy Andy out of prison, why is he a free man ....? Watch his infamous interview....
I would have seen em if my best friend cathy hadnt passed out the minute they got on stage. We were only 13, so i had to go with her to the ambulance. I think she screamed too loud for Derek 😂😂, passed out.
I remember the song Saturday Night very well. I was 15 years old in 1975. That song was on the radio all the time. I guess I never realized just how many singles they released and how many albums they made. They were actually a lot more successful than I thought.
Not just the music, their memorabilia made loads of cash, but they were young and ripped of by their manager, and also, the record label should have made millions not the only band that was ripped of at these times.
Tam Payton was a potato dealer in Edinburgh and the bay city rollers used to work for him delivering potatoes I know this as I met them many times they used to deliver the spuds to the fish and chip shop I used to work in fact
Let's not forget he stood trial for running down and killing an elderly woman by recklessly driving a very powerful sports car which his great wealth bought for him.......
@@LakelandluvsBlythe Have you ever known Davie Paton (Lead from the band 'Pilot' et al.?) My friend from late 1970 onwards? Explain your _faux pas_ to Davie/David. Are you _au fait_ with Edinburgh/Scottish dialects? Where do *you* bide? Stay free, and, hopefully, educated. No thanks required, flower. R 👋 🕊
I just read his Wikipedia profile and I am really nonplussed. He got away with murder. At the age of 20, he killed an elderly driver was banned from driving for ONE year, and charged 100 pounds. WTH? And the guilt of this led to his alcoholism. He already was an alcoholic. He wasn't that guilty because he continued to drink and drive and lost his license for 18 months. Geez Louise. Died of cardiovascular disease and hypertension. Alcohol will do that to you as well as help you run people over and cost you 100 pounds to boot.
Thanks for your informative bio tribute to Bay City Rollers' singer Les McKeown. 👍😊 Unfortunately, it seems that someone else has copied your content, and recently posted their version using an AI voiceover. Unlike your video, the copycat version is full of mistakes ---- mispronouncing Les' McKeown's last name 5 different ways, and the visuals are a mish-mash thrown together without sequence. You should checkout: "Tinseltown Talks". Good luck getting their post removed.
Dear Les, you were so loved, Scotland will always be proud of you🏴❤️🏴❤️🏴
A lovely tribute to our dear Leslie McKeown❤️, may he rest in peace 🙏💔Thank you for making the video ❤💔🙏
Was lucky enough to see The Rollers a few times in the 70’s. Leslie was my absolute favorite! I was gutted when he died! 😭
A huge piece of my childhood disappeared when Alan and Ian passed, but it truly became real when Les passed.😢
Me too guys😢 listen to BCR music all the time❤ RIP
My older sister who is 10 yrs older than me had her bedroom walls covered in posters by this band and had tartan scarfs pinned to her wall. One of my earliest memories. ❤ didn’t really know their music but always smile when I hear about them ❤
Same ❤😂
Mine too
My sister as well ♥️
It’s 3 years today ( 20 th April) since Leslie left this world, you are still loved by all your fans ♥️
Les used to come to my brother's garage , were I also worked , in hackney east London , he used to make the tea when we were busy , a really down to earth guy , had some great stories to tell , I was sad to hear of his passing , my condolences to his family ,
Thank you for sharing your lovely memory 🥰
poverty make you humble and down to earth.
@@claudemarchand1196 you may well be right , good insight , we all had similar childhoods , I was younger than my brother, when my older brother introduced me too les and told me he was from the roller,s , I replied who ? Les smiled and took no offense , my brother is six years older than me , I genuinely did not know , once I looked him up I was impressed by him , so humble , the finest attribute anybody can have , and despite his success it never changed him , I only knew les for a few years in late 80,s early 90,s , and moved to an another part of london , I never seen him again after that , but the great stories he told us when my brother pestered him enough , seemed like tall tales when he told us , but no doubt true , I carry today and still get a laugh about when I think about a small group of working class Scottish lads taking over the world ,
I saw The Rollers in 1977 in Philadelphia, PA. The Tower Theater. We waited online for hours to get tickets. Seeing them is one of my fondest teenage memories. RIP Les, you truly were loved by many.
on line? in 1977?
@@Hannah-pk6iq I saw them live. It was either 76 or 77. It was a fantastic experience.
@@Hannah-pk6iqthey meant in line. Luckily back then we actually got out and did things in the real world. Lol
The Bay City Rollers are my favourit Band in the seventies 😊😊😊😊
Les was a lovely man who could sing a good song and tell a good joke. I loved his witty sense of humour, he always made me laugh. The Bay City Rollers were big in their time. I was only 12 years of age in 1975, but i remember them very well. In fact that year of 1975 i won a colouring in competition taking in numerous schools in the area. My dear beloved mother who passed away recently bought me an entire Bay City Roller outfit to wear to the prize giving ceremony. Ive never forgot it and ive never forgot the Bay City Rollers. Rest in peace Les.
One of my favorite bands and singer.Glad I got to see him in concert in 1977.Rest in peace 🕊️ always loved and
remembered
I will always be a Roller maniac
One of my first crushes as a child. I remember my older sisters covering the bedroom walls with their posters. I couldn’t wait for their tartan socks to be handed down to me! RIP Les ❤
I’m was lucky to see the rollers live and also see Les in his later life performing all the hits and i have to say i was so pleased to have this in my life thank you one and all..👍
My teenage years were filled with the music of the BCR and the first love in my life was Leslie. A mixture of attraction and loving feelings ...and I was only 12 when it started. Good memories! The BCR were an important part of my life!!! Never forgotten! I saw them in concert in Offenbach/ Germany ..one if my most treasured experiences of those years.Had no idea then about their struggles. Didn't have a clue he was bisexual ....family as it turned out! Of course I didn't have a real life relationship with him, but it sure felt and still feels like he and they gave me a lot of good in my life. Thank you , Les, and thank you BCR for all my wonderful memories and for the music that at the time inspired me and filled my heart with so much joy!
R.I.P., Les. Thanks for the music, three concerts I attended, and so many good times.
I got a radio DJ gig in 1978, and the first record I played was "You Made Me Believe In Magic". As a Rollers' nod, I'd sign off each day saying to my listeners "All of me loves all of you!". Love to Les and the rest of the band, now and always.
Loved The Bay City Rollers! Especially Les!
I think les was a tootsie we will never know but!!!! someone knows go on ya boy ye 💋😂😂
Another good one. Edinburgh is a beautiful city 😎😍
Thank you!
Yes, that's really a beautiful and very historical City😘🏴👍
I always thought Les had the perfect life when I'd see him on TV, rich and famous. How wrong can you be though 😢 Fly free now beautiful angel 😇
Les was one year older than me and l felt great sorrow when he passed away l will always have great memories of Les and the songs, he sang RIP Les
Brilliantly done. THANK YOU, I absolutely loved this. I loved him for years and years. Now I’m misty eyed thinking about those days! I really appreciate the depth you go into with these videos. Loved it❤️
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I listen to the bay city rollers always great memories of great times thank you Les you are to dearly loved to be forgotten 🌹
I made a snarky comment on one of their videos about 5 or 6 years ago. Just a little throwaway joke, and I was shocked that Les himself replied and he was quite hurt and defensive.
It taught me a lesson that YES sometimes the person you are joking about might read the comments.
RIP Les. Your music was lightweight pop though.
Yep, 99% of the chart is lightweight poppy music. At their peak the Rollers sold millions of records & brought towns to a standstill when they arrived for concerts. I only ever saw The Beatles & David Cassidy do that. In real life, Les was humorous, self deprecating & racked with insecurities. It had been a rough ride but hopefully he's at peace now.
*Rest In Peace, Les. Comfort to your Family and Close Friends.*
_Torphichen!_
I, once upon a time, played bass in a band, in Livingston, West Lothian. The keyboard player was my/your (?) friend: Wattie Black, who played with the BCR before they became rightly famous. I went on to be the bassist of an early, but nonetheless successful, version of _Blues 'n' Trouble._ Happy Days/Daze ...
Perhaps we will meet, one of these Auld Afternoons, upon a better Astral Plane.
By the way, another friend of yours/mine is David (Davie) Paton! ( The band *Pilot* - _January_ and _Magic_ .) *No relation to Tam Paton!*
Stay free, Les, wherever you may be. Wishing you and yours well.
Rab 💚 👋
PS. *Rest In Peace, Ian Bairnson.* 🕊
S-a-t-u-r-d-a-y Niiiight! RIP Les McKeon...
Saw him in Boston Linc's at the Blackfriars arts centre and he really had a good voice
I use to live in Boston in Lincs.
Les remained a good looking man through all his problems. I was in love with him at 13 and had his and the band's pics all over my side of the bedroom I shared with my sister. He had a bit of fame and is still remembered, so his life was a good one overall
❤The Bay City Rollers were awesome ! ❤
Miss him 💔 Saw him with the Rollers in the mid 70s and several times in the years before he died with The Legendaries. His shows were like a big party and he had such a good rapport with the audience.
I had the 45 single and used to listen to it over and over as a little boy and thought it was the coolest song ever. LoL. RIP
I love the bay city rollers I have all their records on Japanese vinyl and cds.
Fond memories of dancing in my local youth club aged 15 to the BCR's great music & thinking that they were gods (oh the good days)
Les had so much chrisma /charm /looks he was the ideal front man RIP
I TRAVELLED 300 MILES TO SEE THEM...AND ALL BECAUSE OF LES...RIP SWEETY...NOW YOU ARE AT PEACE
I’m a huge QUEEN fan especially of Freddie Mercury ❤️❤️. Knowing Les looked up to Freddie makes me even happier . RIP FREDDIE & LES 😢😢❤️❤️
I loved the Rollers still do ! RIP Les Alan and Ian ❤❤
Love and miss Les so much.❤😢💔
I loved both Les and Alan ❤❤
What a gorgeous looking human, wow him in early years with long hair, what can you say, thanx Les for being part of my life, saw the BCR in 1976; you couldn’t hear him singing because of the screaming but I couldn’t care less, what a time in history, everything was so different then 👍🇦🇺❤️
Leslie was my favorite, I had a big crush on him and I was only 10. Every time someone in my past dies a little part of me dies. I want to live in that time forever. I hate the present time. If I could I would die right now.
If only time machines were a thing I would join you 💕 Thanks for watching 🥰
@@HarmonyHeartsLifestyle-ul5yv Yes wouldn’t that be wonderful! You’re welcome ☺️
I feel the same ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@@scottparham5894 it sucks to feel like the best part of your life is long gone.😕😢
Loved the saturday morning show.
They were the days
To young to know what was going on around them. The Bay City Rollers were worked to death by Paton and the record company. They didnt have the time or the energy to realise they were being robbed blind. Its sad they never got the money they worked so hard for.
Les was always my favourite ❤
This is so sad, Woody is still touring I seen them last month they were great
❤ memories ❤
THANK. YOU. FOR. YOUR, GREAT. MUSIC, LES,,,🍀💚🌹💌
I was a child back when the Rollers were top of their game but I can remember all the teenage girls going mental about them.
I remember my cousin used to wear trousers with tartan down the side and the jacket was the same and they would rap tarten scarfs around there wrist I thought she looked so cool I was 7 she was 15 happy days🇮🇪
The rollers were all the rage back then, they brought some excitement to the UK. I'm sorry as hell that he died so young. R.I.P son.
I think i have all of bay city roller's albums. Love all of them but eric is still my crush
Derek was my man!
Not only that, their manager and possibly the record company ripped them off on the music and memorabilia, but they didn't even get royalties on every air play . They should have been millionaire's.
My Uncle drove them around Melbourne.They joked about having no money.That stuck in my mind all this time.
They came for a riding lesson at breezemount riding school in ireland. I remember telling them they had the wrong footwear on to ride horses. I had no interest and nobody believed i didnt ask for an autograph. I was in love with david cassidy.
My favorite song was Saturday Night ❤️
A sad ending as a few others from that era 😢 rip 🙏
I used love Der songs wen I was young .Les was a good singer rip.
Every one loved the rollers❤
including the nonce drummer?
There was a girl in my school back in the day who was in dress making class .
When the rollers come to power ... she charged other girls for stitching tartan cloth edging onto jeans and denim tops and selling long scarves .
She made bridal wear after she left .
YES BAY CITY ROLLERS came to hull. WHAT A GREAT NIGHT
Les spread love all of the world.
Awful their manager was a freaking pervert.
That manager did sexually abuse the band members...... there are a couple of documentaries here on RUclips where some members tell all. Very sad....
That manager should have been locked up for longer than he was
@@elizabethrennick9407 well England protects their paedophiles....look at the music industry from the last 5 decades, with Jimmy Saville and partners, everyone knew about, its aweful........even the royal family keeps creep Randy Andy out of prison, why is he a free man ....? Watch his infamous interview....
They should have exposed him for what he was at the time ..Fame and money comes 2nd to that as them people should be outed .
I recently watched a documentary about them, Nicky Campbell presented it, it was so unbelievably sad those poor boys.
hard to believe with all the singles.... merchandising...tv show etc.....they all ended up completely broke 😒
My sister went to school with a couple of them when she lived in Scotland
I would have seen em if my best friend cathy hadnt passed out the minute they got on stage. We were only 13, so i had to go with her to the ambulance. I think she screamed too loud for Derek 😂😂, passed out.
Lovely man .
I remember the song Saturday Night very well. I was 15 years old in 1975. That song was on the radio all the time. I guess I never realized just how many singles they released and how many albums they made. They were actually a lot more successful than I thought.
I was 15 in 1975 too😊. I used to be a fan and had posters on my wall, my friend was a Les fan and I liked Woody. Good old days 😊
Not just the music, their memorabilia made loads of cash, but they were young and ripped of by their manager, and also, the record label should have made millions not the only band that was ripped of at these times.
miss see les and is band ❤
Alan and Derek came from caley Road in dalry/haymarket
They were my neighbours
It’s McKeown and a fantastic singer
Bye Bye Baby was originally sung by Frankie Valli and the four seasons.
RIP 🌹
"Music lovers" and BCRs don't really go together. And I was a fan!
Tam Payton was a potato dealer in Edinburgh and the bay city rollers used to work for him delivering potatoes I know this as I met them many times they used to deliver the spuds to the fish and chip shop I used to work in fact
Let's not forget he stood trial for running down and killing an elderly woman by recklessly driving a very powerful sports car which his great wealth bought for him.......
I think it was a ford Mustang..
何故 その事を言う必要があるのか…不幸な事故です お相手の方 親族の方 とても辛い思いをされたと思います レスリ―も十分反省されたと思います！
@@griswald7156 he had no money....
😢😢❤️
Thanks les and boys fantastic
With respect, H & H L: 'Tam Paton's surname is pronounced Payton.'
Thank you for the channel!
All the best. Stay free. Rab 🍻 😎
no it isn't. His name is pronounced just like the narrator states. sounds like patten not payton
@@LakelandluvsBlythe Have you ever known Davie Paton (Lead from the band 'Pilot' et al.?) My friend from late 1970 onwards? Explain your _faux pas_ to Davie/David.
Are you _au fait_ with Edinburgh/Scottish dialects? Where do *you* bide?
Stay free, and, hopefully, educated. No thanks required, flower. R 👋 🕊
RIP Les...
The great front man of a band that couldn't play
RIP Les 🥹❤️
I just read his Wikipedia profile and I am really nonplussed. He got away with murder. At the age of 20, he killed an elderly driver was banned from driving for ONE year, and charged 100 pounds. WTH? And the guilt of this led to his alcoholism. He already was an alcoholic. He wasn't that guilty because he continued to drink and drive and lost his license for 18 months. Geez Louise. Died of cardiovascular disease and hypertension. Alcohol will do that to you as well as help you run people over and cost you 100 pounds to boot.
Word on the street was he ended up selling drugs in his local area to fund his habit....!!!
And so many comments saying what a lovely man he was makes me laugh.
Thanks for your informative bio tribute to Bay City Rollers' singer Les McKeown. 👍😊
Unfortunately, it seems that someone else has copied your content, and recently posted their version using an AI voiceover. Unlike your video, the copycat version is full of mistakes ---- mispronouncing Les' McKeown's last name 5 different ways, and the visuals are a mish-mash thrown together without sequence.
You should checkout: "Tinseltown Talks". Good luck getting their post removed.
Thanks I appreciate it ☺️
so sad
Also, their manager is or was living nicely in Edinburgh. Big house guard dogs security makes you think . Yup sickening.
And their accounts/ manager ripped them off, took hundreds of thousands of pounds!! 😠
One hell of a lot of inaccuracies. Obviously not 100% Research done
A shame indeed. Tam robbed them blind.
I was a fan
Never had a happy day in his whole life conclusion money doesn’t buy happiness
the deafness of his father was a blessing. lord knew he will have a son with a crappy band. god is great sometime.
What happened to tam patton bay city rollers agent.
He lived a life of luxury after nicking all their money lol.
He died 2009
My ex partner, Lynne Elliott co-wrote Shang-A-Lang
Didn't Les become a qualified accountant so he could trace where their money went?
Very good job but you left out the part were he was gay
Then came Slik..
April of 2021. Did Les get that vax? Serious question...he left us way too young.
Did Les get his boosters?
That's the first thing that I thought.
its a MTF like all the make it in showbiz, you have to sell your soul when you come to the crossroads in your career
freddie was his hero.....???? you joking
Saw the Bay city Rollers in the 1970 s they were sort of ok back then but that was about all. 😹
He was a shit shoveler ??
Yes he was. He was a bisexual that used to cottage in gents toilets. How did his wife put up with his behaviour?
Alcoholic
Sicko
Wasn't he drunk when he knocked over the pensioner?????