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  • I remember Cruising to this back in High School--I still have the 8-track tape!

  • I think this is the best BCR release....It is included on their greatest hits CD

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  • I remember having this on 8 track tape i wish i could find it on cd today

  • This vid plays perfect on my computer.

  • The video is out of sync because someone replaced the audio with the record version of the track. Too bad since the original audio is a different MIX with Pat on harmonies . I really hate when cloth-eared fools do this on youtube.

  • AWESOME VIDEO

  • I'm Japanese fan.Do you know what do they do now?

  • @UncleIchiro They are together again!! And playing concerts :) I am a current ticket holder and will be seeing them Saturday November 12/11 in Kelowna, BC, Canada. They are touring!!! check out your local venues they may be coming to your neighborhood!

    I'm so freaking excited! I've waited 36 years for this :)

  • I'm Japanese .I have never been to Europe. But when I was junire high school student. I liked this song very much. I am 49years ord man now. Ha ha ha.Its's realy!

  • Les and Pat in the same video, gotta love it!

  • What was the name of the Northern Irish guy who replaced Ian Mitchell? Pat somebody.

  • @Feisty1967 The guy who replaced Ian is Pat McGlynn, who is in this video, but he was born in Niddrie, Scotland, which is a suburb of Edinburgh.

  • @Feisty1967 His name is Pat McGlynn and, though he's of Irish ancestory, he was born in a suburb of Edinburgh called Niddrie.

  • A good cover, but the String Driven Thing original is better. Still, it made some money for the criminally obscure prog-folk band.

  • BEST BAND EVER

  • I gotta agree with you Rube. I laugh when i read some of the comments about how Les did'ent age well. Generally the ones saying that are the ones who did'nt age well themselves, LOL> Your right also, that no matter how badly we may want to, we can never go back again ): I love my kids & Grandkids, but if i had a chance to step back into the 70's, i would be gone in a min, LOL.

  • Reading comments below, and fact is this song was alot more grown up then "Bye Bye Baby"!! I think you are basing his your opinion on the fact that by this point Les KNEW they were getting ripped off, and had a very casual attitude. If you ask me the more casual, and more rebelous he got, the hotter , and better looking he got.

  • Les always looked so hot in thos Tight White Slacks and dark shirts

  • not the best cover version by them - the original by the (also Scottish) String Driven Thing was great as was their phenomenal 'Circus'

  • BCR were going down the dumper by this point. The quality of the songs had diminished somewhat since the glory days of "Bye Bye Baby". I remember watching as a 9 year old as their career went down the pan. They should never have ditched the tartan.

  • Wow, this band were utter shite. The band manager and the drummer both done for paedophilia.

  • @Spaceweed10 the manager is DEFINITELY guilty of pedophilia, but all DEREK is guilty of is having pornography on his property, brought there by a friend, who even admitted it!! As for the band being shite, then why do they still have THOUSANDS of fans who would follow them to the ends of the earth to see them?!!

  • It would be much better if the music were synched with the vid better!

  • ある番組で、4半期に一度聞く曲ですね。

    やっぱ ベイシティローラーズ最高!

  • 突然失礼します。

    それって日本の番組ですか?

    なんていう番組ですか?

  • the best band ever

  • Les McKeown has a page on MySpace and he is going to be having a Fan Fest in Savannah Georgia this year, Alan Longmuir , who was also in the BCR will also be there. For more info and tickets to the event , visit Leslie's page on MySpace. Eric Faulkner also has a page too and his current CD is on sale too.

  • @1starryeyedkid ' absolutely. I'd like to run my fingers thru his hair.

  • Why is the song out of sync w/ the video?

  • 0MGAWd i L0vEd D!z ALbUM!!

  • i thought this sounded like who tommy / pinball wizard.lol.

  • Eric played this song through my amp on Friday night!!

  • really? where can I find him in concert in California?

  • Eric is so beautiful in this video !

  • Happy birthday !!!

  • Oooh yes, I couldn't have put it better myself!! MMMMM

  • yeah still is!!!!

  • fantastic

  • voll bescheuert die typen ,hab es immer gehaßt und heute ist es irgendwie gut.

  • I like the Music;Kiss Kiss :**)!

  • amazing group love the lp

  • still is!!

  • yeah, i'd have loved sweet virginia, too, if only pat had gotten the credit he deserved for writing it!!!

  • Thanks for posting but you did us no favors by replacing the Audio . God I hate when posters do that.

    This video once featured a early mix of the song with different vocals before Pat got the boot....

  • Good thing you said there jennilu123,

    about the concert online or the DVD;s!

    And YES ofcourse Pat should get HIS royalties too,1 for the time he was with the BCR and played-sang with them and 2.for every song HE has written extra! By the way everytime the song gets played the writer gets money for it too,that's the same with every group,for instance Take That?Gary Barlow gets more money because he wrote (most of) the songs+ when it's played on the radio HE gets the money for it,so Pat too..

  • hi bibi, thank you for your kind words! pat did finally get some credit for sweet virginia, but on the rerelease of it's a game, they're all listed as writing that, but according to the letter my penpal got from pat's mother, he wrote that himself!

  • This was my favorite LP. Their music was more mature.

  • Still one of my very favorites! Loved the it's a game album, plus eric just looks so gorgeous in this one too

  • einfach herrlich

  • immer wieder toll.

  • In profile, Les looks like John Lennon!

  • I think this video is loved all over the world!

  • I love this song. I was a huge fan at the time, and I still don't mind them, but I don't have the enthusiasm for them I once did. but there are still songs I like. thanks for posting this one.

  • From what I read on the Arista CD Bay City Rollers Definitive Collection, Pat had contributed to the tracks of It's A Game, but from what I heard, when Pat was either dismissed or had quit, his tracks were removed and he was not mentioned on the album. However, this video does justice to the injustice that happened to "The Lost Roller", Pat McGlynn.

  • Does anyone know why Pat left so quickly? Did it have anything to do with Tam as I read in a 70s memorabilia magazine ( I think it is Time published this month) which claims 2 rollers were raped by Tam.  I always loved Pat and was sorry when he left.

  • I looked through People magazine's latest tribute to the '70s at my local bookstore - in an article about the BCR, Pat said about Tam's recent death that he hopes that man is burning in hell. 'Nuff said?

  • I guess that explains it.

  • I've heard various stories - Pat had ego problems, or he was dating a woman Tam didn't like. Only Pat himself would know, I guess.

    I think the Rollers should do a joint memoir as well as jennilu's concert idea.

  • i'm glad you liked my concert idea. i came up with a while back, but i wasn't sure how well it would go over! as far as pat goes, way back when, when i had a lot of pen pals, one of them got a letter from pat's mother. she said that when tam put a contract under pat's nose and pat, being so young and trusting, signed without reading it. then, when they were on tour, tam climbed in pat's bed and tried to rape him. pat fought him off and threatened to call the cops. goodbye, pat!!!

  • I would love it so much more if you would please please please re-do it so the audio & video are synchronized. And if you don't have the software to do it, you could send it to me and I'll do it.

  • would love it too if the voices and music were together but still love it, it one of my favorites!

  • Hi,Nothing wrong with my video.Its a perfect master.Youtube has a software bug .

  • @bach36251 I HAVE seen some YouTube postings that have serious audio and video unsynchronization, but this one looks fine to me. But your comment is interesting. Apparently different videos are unsynchronized depending on computer...

  • One of the best videos by BCR.

  • @MB412 I agree, it is my very favorite as well!

  • Disco influence

  • great song

    excellent band!

  • great video! first time i have seen this one. Eric is just so AAAhh

  • The Rollers were freakin Awesome. Its too bad this was their last great LP together. cheers Sticky

  • Keeping On Rolling!! Saw them in concert on July 31, 1977 when this Album came out and it was the best concert i've been to!!!

  • Eric was my man lol he is gorgeous xxxx

  • I loved if a few weeks when even my husband had to agree that Les ACTUALLY had a really good voice. I about feel on the floor. Wish things had turned out better for him...

  • thats some good shit, homie

  • learning english ? we don't say the last two words if you want to be part of soceity.vut your hair and get a job.

  • I don't think America really understood how good these guys were in the 70s. This song would have been big if Elvis did not die this year.

  • oh please! I love the Rollers too but really?

  • Eric is so GORGEOUS in this video!!! Sigh.....

  • oh...bring back the 70s!!!! eric was my fave,,,,but as ive got older,woody seems more ,,,oh i dont know!! theyre all gawjuss!!!!!

  • I agree Eric's as dreamy as they get!!!!

  • once upon a time ,i was sixteen years old.

  • No one has more beautiful eyes than Mr Faulkner! I am 45 now and still infatuated with the man.

  • I can make pictures real photos of any member you want from any most any video depending the quality of the video- It would be a nice clear shot of whatever scene of the video you choose-example ,Eric staring into the cameras like he is looking at you. If anyone is interested let me know-I do it all the time and they come out beautiful. There are also different ways of cherishing this photo frame set in a plastic to proctect it for life and also framable. They are very nice. TY

  • That would be wonderful! let me know more about this. I'd love to have a picture of Eric from this video.

  • i'd like to know more about that too. there's a picture i love of pat in the studio mix of don't let the music die. he's standing outside wearing a scottie sweater and his "million dollar" smile! i'd love to have a copy, but how do i go about getting it?

  • Long before MTV.. "music videos"

  • thks 4 uploading! i've been searching 4 this vd!! pat is there! i don't remember well..but probably he was there too back then.

  • I had a fight with his brother ?Danny in Duddingston Primary in 1965. 10 years later the lead guitarist from my brother's band was offered a role in the rollers.

    Sadly, this song was originally by String driven thing - a fantastic band who got virtually no recognition

  • I mean pat mcglyn's brother

  • Uf, das waren noch Zeiten!

  • I remember this song I was so little I didnt even realize when the bands members left and got new ones. I remember showing my friend laughing like a little girl would because I remember seeing them on album somewhere they appeared to be floating and looked naked-U can see ERICS whole side he looked very naked 2 me. Anyone older will know. The US totallt got ripped from hearing and knowing about this band I was lucky to have a friend whos older cousin showed us them! I think Pat is so cute<3

  • Supertolles Lied auch nach all den Jahren noch!

  • Love this song! Loved this band.

  • I love this song

  • I think you're right Neil! But the past can't be changed... hope they can finally work together and get back what was & is rightfully theirs and move on with their future! We can only hope!

  • you know, i had an idea about how they could get money now that they're away from tam and arista. if they did some kind of pay-per-view concert on-line or do a reunion concert and sell dvds of it. what do you think?

  • @jennilu123 I think they may say just remember us the way we were lol Trust me they did not get any younger as none of us have lmao :P They were the bomb and still are sometimes Reunions do not live up to Expectations of Fans It was what it was when the time was just perfect .... BCR Lets go Roller skating :)

  • PAUSED AT 0:47!!!!!!! SIGH!

  • I agree SIGH ! what a man!

  • Yes... a long long pause... LOL What a man!

  • What? Why? Oh.... you mean Eric! lol!

    Pause... rewind... pause... rewind... I'm getting the hang of it now! lol!

  • never mind pausing at 0:47-i stopped COLD when neil said the rollers dropped their trousers! mind you, i knew what he meant, but it sure paints a pretty picture, doesn't it ?!!!

  • Hey Neil, I've been doing some research on them lately and found they only ever received one single payment from Arista Records... if that's true, why are these people still operating?? I wish the Rollers would do a reunion tour/concert... at least today they've got a better chance at keeping the money they earn and deserve. Bryan Adams isn't signed to a recording label & it's worked great for him the last 4 years or so! I wonder how we can put our Rollers in touch with him?? Any ideas?

  • What can we do as fans? Boycott Arista? At this point I would do just about anything to help the Rollers get what is rightfully theirs.

  • I think most of us fans that do know the story already have... but there has to be more! This company is still operating! I have an idea though! Get the Rollers back together... perform all over the world... make a heap of money that they can actually keep this time... and then take the big guys on! A bit much, you think???

  • I absolutely LOVE this video! has almost all of my favorite Rollers!!! :-) LOVE YOU WOODY!!!

  • xD it's so funny..Woody is my Stepfather...he is german and his real name is Peter and Les's is in real polish(that's no joke=) and his hair looks like in this video but now is is much blonder

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  • Super video !!!

    Rollers forever !!

  • Great track.

  • Well Neil, you did what you thought was right and that's the only thing that count. Congrats and we have to believe that one day they will own what they deserve. Life can't always be unfair (I sincerly hope so!) :)

  • Congratulations on your achievement. But it's not your fault they didn't get paid. It just seems that whatever these guys did, they were swindled each & every time! It's just not fair, is it!

  • Just love it. If you play chess, it's funny, at the end the pieces that take their place (the king for Les/ the fool for Eric / the soldier for Pat/ the horse for Woody and the tour for Derek...

  • Hey, great video. Does anyone know if a collection of BCR's videos exist on dvd? Keep on Rollin' Roller fans :-)

  • Love it... this was the end of them. They had even minimalized the tarton by this stage.

    Great vid ..thanks for posting it.

  • I've never seen this either, so great to see new stuff on YouTube. Thanks for posting it!

  • I was there too....back in 1978! :-)My very first live concert. "It's a Game" was the opener. Only the chest curtain in the stage background and a couple coloured spotlights above it...that was all. :-) But the tickets were affordable. Look what they ask for a ticket today.

  • "kerberosdoggie "thanks thanks thanks...

  • I thought Ian quit before this song was made. So I'm confused.

  • Thank you so much..... just loved it, just love the Rollers. Oh god! I am 16 again... lol

  • wow .... pat mcglynn style and all ...wasnt he wiped from the cd jacket just moments before the album was released?

  • THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for bringing this back!!!! xxx

  • Thank you for the news on the new CD comming my way. The search begins. Would a reunion, too. Love to all, Gina.

  • I am so glad the guys are going to see at least some of the money they have earned.

    Hey, everybody...kerberosdoggie has the best BCR videos!!! Keep it up the good work!!

  • Hi All ,

    The Bay City Rollers have just released a new " It's a Game " CD . Royalties go to all the lads .Check it out on amazon dot com.

  • hi, i love this video, even more because pat's in it! i'm a little curious; when you say the royalties go to "all the lads", does that include pat too? i know he was on the entire album, and even wrote sweet virginia, but never got full credit for it, so he certainly deserves SOMETHING!!

  • hi, according to a recent source, i heard that the guys won't get a cent from the cd until after their court date in february! i'd suggested they do a pay-per-view concert to tide them ovet till then, but they won't get thay % either!

  • Thanks you so much for bringing it back. Then more BCR, the better!

  • Thank you.  This is A great song and video.

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