{"id":692077,"date":"2026-07-15T00:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/692077\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T00:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:44:10","slug":"contenders-for-a-scottish-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-as-voted-by-our-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/692077\/","title":{"rendered":"Contenders for a Scottish Rock and Roll Hall of Fame &#8211; as voted by our readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bay City Rollers are a Scottish pop rock band known for their worldwide teen idol popularity in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were called the &#8220;tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh&#8221;, and sold an estimated 120\u2013300 million records worldwide, making them one of the best selling musical acts of all time globally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Famous hits included Bye, Bye, Baby and Shang-a-Lang.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among those who nominated the band was Gavin Murray, from Kilmacolm, who said Scottish rock music has a global appeal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said a hall of fame &#8220;would certainly become a strong magnet for tourists&#8230; adding a certain boost to the economic vibrancy Sauchiehall Street needs and deserves&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carolyn Johnston said: &#8220;The Bay City Rollers were the biggest band in Scotland in the seventies. They deserve to be in the hall of fame. We had Rollermania.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bay City Rollers are a Scottish pop rock band known for their worldwide teen idol popularity in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-692077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}