Bye Bye Baby
My Tragic Love Affair with the Bay City Rollers
An American teenager's obsessive fandom, followed further than most, and written up years later without flinching.
Sullivan was an American teenager who fell for the Bay City Rollers and, unlike most fans, followed them to Britain, to hotels, into their orbit for years. Written decades later as a music journalist, it is an unusually honest account of what fandom actually involves.
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Caroline Sullivan is an American woman who became a completely obsessive fan of the Bay City Rollers, a Scottish group that dressed in all tartan costumes in the early to mid-seventies and were momentarily huge. Like a lot of teenage girls, Caroline Sullivan fell in love with them, but unlike most of their fans she proceeded to devote her life to them.
Interview · December 2011
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