Editing Bay City Rollers (section)

===Rise to prominence: 1974–1975===
In late 1973, McKeown recorded lead vocals on "Remember (Sha-La-La-La)", and a lead-in to a series of UK chart hits. 16-year-old Stuart Wood completed the "classic five" line-up in February 1974, a week after the band had debuted the "Remember" single on ''Top of the Pops.'' (John Devine had mimed the piano part). By early 1975, the band was well on the way to achieving global success. The "classic five" line-up consisted of: Alan Longmuir, Derek Longmuir, Stuart "Woody" Wood, Eric Faulkner and Les McKeown. Beginning with "Remember" (UK No.&nbsp;6), the Rollers' popularity exploded, and they released a string of hits on the UK chart. Following in succession were "[[Shang-a-Lang (song)|Shang-a-Lang]]" (UK No.&nbsp;2), "[[Summerlove Sensation]]" (UK No.&nbsp;3), and "All of Me Loves All of You" (UK No.&nbsp;4).<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums"/> By early 1975, they were one of the biggest-selling acts in the UK. The successful 1975 UK tour prompted newspaper headlines about the rise of "Rollermania"<ref name="Guinness Rockopedia"/> (alluding to [[Beatlemania]] a decade before). The Rollers were the subject of a 20-week UK television series, ''[[Shang-a-Lang (TV series)|Shang-a-Lang]]''.

A cover of [[The Four Seasons (band)|the Four Seasons]]' "[[Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby Goodbye)|Bye, Bye, Baby]]" stayed at No.&nbsp;1 in the UK for six weeks in March and April 1975, selling nearly a million copies and becoming the biggest seller of the year. The subsequent single, "[[Give a Little Love (Bay City Rollers song)|Give a Little Love]]" topped the chart in July 1975, achieving their second No.&nbsp;1 hit.<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums"/><ref name="The Great Rock Discography"/> Two albums were produced during this period: ''[[Once Upon a Star]]'' (1975) and ''[[Wouldn't You Like It?]]'' (1975). Faulkner and Wood undertook the majority of the songwriting duties. By this time, Bay City Rollers fans had a completely distinctive style of dress, featuring calf-length [[tartan]] trousers and tartan [[scarf|scarves]].<ref name="The Great Rock Discography"/>

English singer-songwriter [[Nick Lowe]] wrote a "jaundiced" (in Lowe's words)<ref name=canada_interview>{{cite web|url=http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=9342a121-86f6-4403-8943-223081679e68 |title=Q and A with Nick Lowe |website=Canada.com |date=6 October 2007 |access-date=24 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140501050558/http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=9342a121-86f6-4403-8943-223081679e68 |archive-date=1 May 2014}}</ref> paean to the band titled "Bay City Rollers We Love You". The track was "carefully sculpted" to be poor enough to get Lowe out of a recording contract with United Artists. The strategy backfired. UA issued the record as by the Tartan Horde,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nicklowedisc.tripod.com/stiff/stiff.html |title=NICK LOWE DISCOGRAPHY – PART 1 |website=Nicklowedisc.tripod.com |access-date=24 April 2014}}</ref> which was the name given to Rollers fans in England, and it became a substantial hit in Japan.<ref name=canada_interview /> Lowe was obliged to record a follow-up song called "Rollers Show", which did not meet with the same commercial success. This follow-up song was included on the U.S. release of Lowe's first album ''[[Jesus of Cool|Pure Pop for Now People]]''.