Music: Hype or Hope?

Scotland's Bay City Rollers? Who?

If you don't know, Sid Bernstein will tell you. Bernstein is a promoter, the man who staged the Beatles' momentous Shea Stadium concert in New York a decade ago. "Just like ten years ago all over again," he says. "I am not saying the Rollers are the new Beatles. I am saying that they are the biggest phenomenon since the Beatles."

This week the Rollers will make their U.S. television debut on the kick-off of ABC's new music-variety series Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell. The five-man band will appear from London via satellite doing three typical songs:...

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