Alan Longmuir obituary

Bassist and founding member of the Bay City Rollers, the band that hit the heights of pop fame in the 1970s“Just a plumber from Edinburgh who got lucky” was Alan Longmuir’s dry assessment of his career. To the young girls who lionised his band, the Bay City Rollers, he was considerably more. The group’s founding member, Longmuir, who has died aged 70 after contracting a virus while on holiday in Mexico, was the often unwilling object of the wildest adulation 1970s teenhoo