Kansas City Rejects Sue For Millions
A couple of years ago there was a lot of Scottish music at the Irish festival in Crown Center, some of it by way of Canada, and some of it from Scotland itself.
As webmaster, forms submitted through the site came through me, and one day that year came an application from no less than The Bay City Rollers.
The Scottish revivalist superstars of the mid-1970s weren’t booked for the Kansas City festival that year and now news today has them finally suing their record company for millions.
Since they only received one royalty payment in the last 25 years, but more importantly, they persuaded some thirty-odd years ago kids in my neighbourhood in Dublin to wear tartan-trimmed jeans and jackets, I want them to get their millions.
Most of the hits the Roller had were written by Ireland’s Phil Coulter with his then songwriting partner Bill Martin. If you’ve been watching the recent rugby, and I know you haven’t, Coulter is the man responsible for writing Ireland’s Call, the neutral anthem sung at Irish rugby games to represent both the Republic and Northern Ireland.
Of course Coulter is probably most known as the man who wrote The Town I Loved So Well, about the city of Derry, and as the producer of the legendary Planxty albums that influenced so many while putting its musicians in debt.
The BCR lawsuit is being brought by the classic line-up (Eric, Derek, Alan, Les and Woody) along with later vocalist Duncan Faure.
See Also:
• U2: 1979 and 1987
• Líadan and Kansas City
• My Part in the Downfall of the Irish Music Charts
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