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Les McKeown

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Biography

Scottish rock and pop singer Les McKeown was born November 12, 1955 in Edinburgh. At age 15 he joined the band Threshold, and three years later he replaced Gordon Clark as the frontman of the Bay City Rollers. With him as the lead singer, the group scored numerous hits in Britain and America including “Remember”, “Give a Little Love”, and “Saturday Night”, but Les McKeown left the band in 1978. He produced six solo albums between 1979 and 1982 including All Washed Up, which was a hit in Japan. In 2015 he reunited for a short series of sold-out shows with the Bay City Rollers, and in 2016 he put out his final solo album, The Lost Songs. Not unfamiliar with personal hardship, McKeown suffered from alcoholism for most of his life, a disease that played a part in his causing the death of a neighbor in a car accident. He passed away on April 20, 2021.
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