The family of the late Bay City Rollers frontman Les McKeown have told how he “never found peace” and screamed in his sleep for decades after being abused by the band’s manager aged 19
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Peko said: “He never told me but he suffered it, when he was sleeping he was screaming. He was screaming in the night. He cried a lot. He said to me, ‘I hate Tam Paton.’” “And then it kind of made sense. You know, the drinking, just the anger. He was a broken man. My dad never found peace in his life. He never found peace and that hurts.”
Original band member Stuart “Woody” Wood tells Campbell how touring worldwide was the ticket out of life in Edinburgh. But he faced another challenge: Tam Paton. Clark said: “It might have been a hit but at what cost? I realised the Bay City Rollers were about Tam Paton. He didn’t care about the band.”
The band changed members regularly with new teenage boys being brought in by Paton. Danish singer Gert Magnus was 16 when he was brought to stay in Paton’s home on the outskirts of Edinburgh and told he would be joining the band.
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