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Original Bay City Rollers frontman Nobby Clark has vowed to recover decades’ worth of royalties – claiming it was his voice on the band’s biggest US hit. For almost a decade, Gordon “Nobby” Clark was the voice of the Edinburgh band before being replaced by Les McKeown, who died in 2021.

Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.The Bay City Rollers rocked Renfrewshire in a secret gig, we can exclusively reveal.The story has been kept a secret for 47 years.Only after the death of lead singer Les McKeown last week did the Paisley Buddie who made it happen feel it was appropriate to talk about the astonishing tale.At the very peak of their fame, all the Rollers took time on Christmas Day 1974 to travel to the Quarriers Home in Bridge of Weir.It happened because disco DJ Mike Dillon called their manager Tam Paton two weeks before Christmas and simply asked.Mike said: “I had arranged to do a free disco for Quarriers on Christmas Day, but about two weeks before I just thought