Bye Bye Baby: My Tragic Love Affair With the Bay City Rollers

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Summary: Bye Bye Baby
Review: Sullivan claims to to have slept with a mystery Roller not once but twice. She claims while they were based here in the USA that she was a "tour guide" of sorts to their home. She goes on to further say she had numerous phone conversation with them in their homes and at hotels across the world. She does however prevent herself from being checked by eliminating the name of the Roller. In the end she claims to have met her Roller and Ian Mitchell in a London Pub on a a business lunch. After all this one on one Roller time her Roller asked "Have we met before?" She was so disappointed in him that she replied "No."
I find the story had to believe. How convenient that her friends told her not the use their real names due to embarrassment of the Rollers. Don't waste your money. It a fantasy story of a women who doesn't have a life.

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Summary: A must read
Review: Sullivan may be a writer, and may have gotten somewhere on what she did and where she did it, possibly by saying she was a fan and followed others as she did the Rollers. The Bay City Rollers covered all teenager mags for several years, as for their musical abilities, "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder".
Although I found myself glued to the pages everynight before I slept, perhaps to find out who the "secret Roller" was or to find out how far she would go to be near the Rollers. For which, I am not sure. At any rate I was glued. A real fan will always admit to being a fan, never to be belittled by others or even allow such a rude comment by anyone else.
It may be that she felt it was time that others should know of the Rollers behaviors, for me, she shattered my childhood dreams. What it would be like when I met my "milk drinking" idol. The one who took me from all of my problems and troubles of being a teenager. My solitude...my solice...my private world. I found my self crying after reading the book because I wanted what they had been presented as not what happened behind their closed doors.
Others should read this book at their own risk, but be forwarned, it is not what you would expect, nor what you are looking for.

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Summary: She may be a writer, but she was not a fan.
Review: Sullivan may be a writer, and may have gotten somewhere on what she did and where she did it, possibly by saying she was a fan and followed others as she did the Rollers. The Bay City Rollers covered all teenager mags for several years, as for their musical abilities, "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder".
Although I found myself glued to the pages everynight before I slept, perhaps to find out who the "secret Roller" was or to find out how far she would go to be near the Rollers. For which, I am not sure. At any rate I was glued. A real fan will always admit to being a fan, never to be belittled by others or even allow such a rude comment by anyone else.
It may be that she felt it was time that others should know of the Rollers behaviors, for me, she shattered my childhood dreams. What it would be like when I met my "milk drinking" idol. The one who took me from all of my problems and troubles of being a teenager. My solitude...my solice...my private world. I found my self crying after reading the book because I wanted what they had been presented as not what happened behind their closed doors.
Others should read this book at their own risk, but be forwarned, it is not what you would expect, nor what you are looking for.

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Summary: Re-live Rollermania!
Review: Thank you Caroline Sullivan for sharing your Bay City Rollers experience! It was quite exciting to read of her escapades with her partners in crime, the Tartan Tarts. Although I am a few years younger than Ms. Sullivan, I could completely relate to her experience with the Rollers, and I picked up a few tricks too! ;) Who knew it could be so easy to find out where the Rollers were staying?! Anyone who has loved a band and has gone to the ends of the earth (or at least Detroit) to see them needs to read this book. This is the ultimate "fan" book. You don't have to be a fan of the Bay City Rollers to enjoy this book. Very well done!

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Summary: A long-awaited, inaccurate disappointment!
Review: The American press release for this book says it all (and you figure the author "authorized" it!): "Bye, Bye Baby is the true tale of a passionate obsession with possibly the most untalented bunch of musicians in the history of rock and roll." The inaccuracies are too many, the tone too nasty and the research obviously lacking in detail. The Smithereens are quoted, uncredited, and "Wayne's World" is quoted, but miscredited. And that's just the non-Roller-related, um, "mistakes". Shabby, very shabby. Apart from that, it is witty, at times, but turns more mean-spirited as it wears on. Often, it seems, she never even listened to the music - she's too busy mocking the lyrics and even Eric's moustache and weight, for example, to utter even ONE word about how the song "Elevator" actually SOUNDED! And that "update" on the guys, towards the end, is just so littered with hearsay and, frankly, non-factual events, that it reads like something you'd expect to see in The Sun. And after all that, one can't help but wonder if the so-called first accounts of the story aren't just as sketchy. Overall it's a messy, quickie, hack-job written by an ex-groupie. How seriously can we take that?

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Summary: A Not-So-Typical Love Story
Review: The music business is filled with former fans. It's the love of the music and the love of the people who make it that makes it magic. To say I empathize with Caroline Sullivan's teen years would be an understatement, since I had my own love affair with a different British band, not unanimously favored by the press and I pulled many (though not all) of the same shenanigins to get where I needed to be. Read: CLOSE. I think the most important point of this story is Caroline's love of the music business, her understanding of the road and her knowledge of the music being released at that time. Read and accept this book as a snapshot. It is not meant to be more or less. Photographs don't lie, they don't embellish and they are rarely flattering. For this I thank her. It brought back that roller coaster ride (no pun intended) filled with the highs and lows of my own teenage madness. My affair started in the late sixties and ended in the mid seventies, Caroline and I (remarkably) crossed paths on many occasions but never met. What wrenched at my heartstrings and brought back the most painful and vivid feelings were her accounts the moments after she had finally achieved the intimacy she had fantasized about. Those first moments of elation followed by the terrible crash. Life on the road was a life of fantasy. When the band went home to their loved ones life seemed so colorless. One touch of hands, one encouraging word could feed a year of dreams until the next tour. Thank you Caroline for writing your book, I enjoyed it enormously. Not in the classic "is this fun or what" way, but in the "at least I wasn't alone" way.

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Summary: A Not-So-Typical Love Story
Review: The music business is filled with former fans. It's the love of the music and the love of the people who make it that makes the magic. To say I empathize with Caroline Sullivan's teen years would be an understatement, since I had my own love affair with a different British band, not unanimously favored by the press and I pulled many (though not all) of the same shenagins to get where I needed to be. Read: CLOSE. I think the most important point of this story is Caroline's love of the music business, her understanding of the road and her knowledge of the music being released at that time. Read and accept this book as a snapshot. It is not meant to be more or less. Photographs don't lie, they don't embellish and they are rarely flattering. For this I thank her. It made me feel less alone in my own teenage madness. My affair started in the late sixties and ended in the mid seventies, Caroline and I (remarkably) crossed paths on many occasions. Although I was in school when my love affair started I too found my way into the music industry which turned out to be more of a deterrant than a help when trying to achieve that closeness we craved. The things I empathized with most were the moments after she had finally achieved the intimacy she had fantasized about. Those first moments of elation followed by the terrible crash. Life on the road was a life of fantasy. When the band went home to their loved ones life seemed so colorless. One touch of hands, one encouraging word could feed a year of dreams until the next tour. Thank you Caroline for writing your book, I enjoyed it enormously. Not in the classic "is this fun or what" way, but in the "at least I wasn't alone" way.

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Summary: Oh Come On!!!
Review: This woman is holding a HUGE grudge against someone she slept with 25 years ago. She followed them all over the country, finally got what she wanted and didn't like the results. As a BCR fan I found it boring and decided I was never that kind of fan, as back then I was only 14 years old, sex sure wasn't on my mind. She threw herself at him several times what did she expect???

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Summary: Love story or horror story? A sad but compelling read.
Review: Yes, I believe that there are girls like this. Girls who are so afraid of growing up, who find the real world so drab or unacceptable, that they virtually disappear into the cotton candy dream world presented to them by the editors of teen magazines. These girls didn't think about boyfriends or careers. They didn't even seem to interact with very often with others who didn't share their obsession. To them, the future was nothing more than the next BCR gig. (Or even more pathetic, the next BCR/Krofft puppet show!) The book has funny moments, sweet moments and is infused with the ring of truth. The author deserves credit for writing about herself in such an unflinching way. But ultimately I found it heartbreakingly sad. I wish it had offered real insights into why these girls turned their back on reality, why no one was able to reach them (not even a shrink!), and whether or not anyone really tried. Thank God these girls managed to grow into productive, reasonably happy adults in spite of all this.