Rollermania was running riot in 1975 with hordes of tartan-clad teenage girls across the nation pledging their undying devotion for The Bay City Rollers.
The Scottish boy band had recently spent six weeks at No.1 with Bye Bye Baby and topped the chart a second time with Give A Little Love - recorded at Stockport’s Strawberry Studios which was besieged by fans desperate to see their idols ‘close up.’
The Rollers’ national tour - including an appearance at Belle Vue King’s Hall compered by well known radio DJ Dave Eager from Clayton - saw scenes of mass hysteria and mayhem similar to how Beatlemania had erupted a dozen years previously.
The Reporter featured one of the group’s biggest fans in Denton, 13-year-old Maria Guarino.
She said she loved dressing up in the Rollers’ trademark style including “shorty check trousers, striped socks and baseball boots”.
Maria went one better by wearing a jumper embroidered with the names of the five group members and a necklace bearing the group name.
Her bedroom wall was covered with 30 posters and pictures of the group with another boxful under the bed.
“I love everything about them,” she said.
“They have great personalities, are good-looking and can sing.”
A pupil at Egerton Park Secondary School, Maria had been practising for a Rollers dance competition being organised during the school holidays by Tameside recreation department.
“I probably won’t win but at least I’m going to look the part,” she told our reporter.
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