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Bay City Rollers

Alternative rock
Alternative rock

Bay City Rollers is a Alternative rock act. Their sound grew out of The Beatles. Those roots explain a lot about how Bay City Rollers arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Rubettes, Mud, Sweet, Cliff Richard and The New Seekers, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Ramones, Backstreet Boys, Bow Wow, 17 and Aaron Carter, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 32 connections around Bay City Rollers, reaching back through The Beatles and forward to Ramones. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Bay City RollersThe BeatlesRamonesBackstreet BoysBow Wow17Aaron CarterThe RubettesMudSweetCliff RichardThe New SeekersLeo SayerHerman's HermitsSlade

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Bay City Rollers connections

Bay City Rollers grew out of The Beatles, shares an orbit with The Rubettes, Mud, Sweet and Cliff Richard, went on to shape Ramones, Backstreet Boys, Bow Wow and 17. 32 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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