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Fact #108037

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Short story:

Saturday Night by The Bay City Rollers reaches No1 in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in the USA. Later in the year, punk rock pioneers The Ramones will attempt to learn it but, being inept musicians, they fail. Instead they take inspiration from the song to use a similar, simplified structure for their own composition, Blitzkrieg Bop.

Full article:

Les McKeown (vocalist, Bay City Rollers) : I hadn’t even been the original singer on Saturday Night. The record was made back in 1972 at a time when Nobby Clark was still lead singer with the band. My voice later replaced his on the master tapes and we put the new version on an album. Clive (Clive Davis, CEO of Arista Records) liked it and things went from there.
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