Step back to 1975: 24 pictures of Staffordshire and the Black Country you’ll remember

September 10, 1975, Walsall Arboretum lights. Karl Jones, aged five, Simon Hope (5) and Jonathan Slater were among the ...
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This Pop-Rock Hit Almost Made ‘70s Boy Band the ‘New Beatles’

In 1975, the Bay City Rollers were one of the biggest bands in the UK. Following the release of their single, “Saturday Night,” in the United States, the Scottish pop-rockers stormed America with the ...
Shropshire Star

Shropshire retro: 26 pictures to transport you back to 1975 - from traffic jams to town life and the faces you remember

May 7, 1975, the story began: 'A Whittington mother out shopping was snatched to safety seconds before half a ton of wood and ...
American Songwriter

Behind the Band Name: Bay City Rollers

First formed as a trio called The Ambassadors in 1964 by guitarist Alan Longmuir, who was 16 at the time, his younger brother drummer Derek Longmuir, and their older cousin Neil Porteous, soon after, ...