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Very sad this week, Alan Longmuir, the original Bay City Roller, lost his fight against life.
I met Alan for the first time in 2015, just before announcing the meeting of Bay City Roller.
I interviewed him at the Le Monde hotel in Edinburgh, where I joked that I would be the envy of all Bay City Rollers fans who will make one of the rooms of the group. He laughed as he was in agreement.
Alan was a sweet soul with a sense of playful humor. He was always happy to let things play – and did not ask much to be happy.
He often called me out of the blue to tell me about his last trip to Japan or plan his book. I may have missed Rollermania in the 70s, but I sang Shangalang and I ran with his gang for a few years and I am privileged and grateful.
It will be moving to see his former comrade The McKeown playing Scotfest in Ingliston tomorrow, and I'm sure he'll play a tearful homage to Al. I know that Stuart "Woody" Wood and Les, who formed the reunion tours, as well as the other Rollers, will miss him immensely.
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