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When the screaming stops : the dark history of the Bay City Rollers

When the screaming stops : the dark history of the Bay City Rollers

Spence, Simon.
Book 2016

What happened to the Bay City Rollers is one of the greatest scandals of the music industry. Former band manager Tom Paton controlled his charges and promoted them as wholesome teen idols while subjecting them to various forms of sexual abuse. Dazzled by sudden global fame and corrupted by Paton's unquenchable sexual appetites, the Bay City Rollers soon became part of his world of depravity, victimhood, crime and psychosis. Three years after they...

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Bay City Rollers
Gay men Biography
Paton, Tam, 1937-2009
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Sexually abused teenagers
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ISBN:
9781783059379
Description:
vi, 568 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Other Title:
Dark history of the Bay City Rollers
Bay City Rollers
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 544-545) and index
Contents:
Foreword / by Dr. Sarah Nelson
Author's note
Prologue : Fun day
Act I : Remember. Obsession ; Innocence ; Frustration ; Confusion ; Explosion ; Mania ; Disconnection ; Compulsion ; Darkness ; It's a game
Act II : Curse of the Bay City Rollers. Decline ; Failure ; Humiliation ; Litigation
Act III : Death of a Svengali. Trade ; Rent ; Drugs
Afterword : Reunion
Control Number:
3031039
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