{"id":58854,"date":"2020-09-02T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bay-city-rollers-bassist-ian-mitchell-dead-at-62\/"},"modified":"2020-09-02T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T15:38:00","slug":"bay-city-rollers-bassist-ian-mitchell-dead-at-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bay-city-rollers-bassist-ian-mitchell-dead-at-62\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bay City Rollers bassist Ian Mitchell dead at 62"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Bay City Rollers bassist Ian Mitchell dead at 62<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 2, 2020 |<\/span> 11:38am |<\/span> Updated September 2, 2020 | 11:59am<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n Ian Mitchell, bassist for the Bay City Rollers, has died at the age of 62, according to a post on the group\u2019s Facebook<\/a> page.<\/p>\n

With hits including \u201cSaturday Night\u201d and \u201cBye Bye Baby,\u201d the tartan-clad Scottish group were a pre-punk 1970s phenomenon in the UK and enjoyed several hits in the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are deeply saddened by the news<\/a> of Ian Mitchell\u2019s death,\u201d the brief message reads. \u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with his wife Wendy, their family and friends. Rest In Peace, Ian.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mitchell was a comparatively late addition to the band, joining in 1976 at the height of what was called \u201cRollermania\u201d in the UK. He was only a member for a matter of months (although he took part in a 1980s incarnation), but they were a key period for the band.<\/p>\n

The Rollers formed in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1964 by brothers Alan and Derek Longmuir. They worked for several years under the name the Saxons and along the way picked up manager Tam Paton, who became the architect of the group\u2019s success. In the late \u201960s they decided a name-change was in order, decided on the Rollers and, according to legend, threw a dart at a map of the United States, which landed near Bay City, Michigan.<\/p>\n

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The Bay City Rollers in December 1978 (from left): Eric Faulkner,\u00a0Derek Longmuir,\u00a0Stuart \u201cWoody\u201d Wood,\u00a0Leslie McKeown and Ian Mitchell<\/span>Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The group scored a minor hit in 1971 with \u201cKeep on Dancing\u201d but when the lineup solidified in 1974 around the Longmuir brothers, guitarists Stuart \u201cWoody\u201d Wood and Eric Faulkner and singer Les McKeown, the group quickly vaulted to superstardom. A sort of rock boy band, clad in matching tartan outfits that played up their Scottishness, the group followed with a string of hits like \u201cRemember (Sha La La),\u201d \u201cShang-a-Lang,\u201d \u201cSummerlove Sensation\u201d and \u201cAll of Me Loves All of You.\u201d By early 1975 the group was the biggest act in the UK.<\/p>\n

Signed to Clive Davis\u2019 then-new label, Arista, the group then broke through in the US with \u201cSaturday Night\u201d (which, ironically, had flopped as a single in the UK) and follow-up hits like \u201cMoney Honey\u201d and \u201cRock and Roll Love Letter.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the strain of success caught up with Alan Longmuir, and he left the group in 1976 and was replaced by the Northern Ireland-born Mitchell, then 17 and the only member not from Edinburgh. He participated on the album \u201cDedication\u201d and the group\u2019s success continued for several more months but overkill had set in and Mitchell left in 1977.<\/p>\n

The group fired Paton the following year \u2014 he was imprisoned in the 1980s for gross indecency with two teenage boys \u2014 and eventually splintered in a long string of infighting and lawsuits. They have continued as a novelty act in various incarnations over the past few decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery sad, sad news about Ian Mitchell,\u201d Wood wrote on the group\u2019s Facebook page. \u201dWe\u2019d like to send our love and condolences to Wendy and all Ian\u2019s family and friends\u2026you are in our hearts.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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