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The Bay City Rollers: Androgynous Heartthrobs

Sheryl Garratt, Collusion, June 1982

Rifling through her mid-70s scrapbooks, Sheryl Garratt reassesses a formative obsession and finds that the standard socio-rock explanations just don't add up. Blanded-out pop music was not what everyone was screaming about. (And a good thing too).

Total word count of piece: 1655

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