a book
Bye Bye Baby
Caroline Sullivan · 2000 · 273 pages
'Let me repeat that. The Bay City Rollers, the biggest teen idols of their day, possibly of all time, were sitting on the floor of my hotel room, watching television and conversing in dark Scottish mutters. It was the most thrilling thing that had ever happened to me. It was the culmination of two years of utter obsession that had cost thousands of dollars, a job and most of my dignity, all sacrificed to the pursuit of them...I loved them desperately. For four years I lived for them. It's not a pretty story.'
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“Caroline Sullivan is an American woman who became a completely obsessive fan of the Bay City Rollers, a Scottish group that dressed in all tartan costumes in the early to mid-seventies and were momentarily huge. Like a lot of teenage girls, Caroline Sullivan fell in love with them, but unlike most of their fans she proceeded to devote her life to them. She ended up moving to the UK to follow them around, to become part of their world. Bye Bye Baby, which was the title of one of their songs, is a hilarious and entertaining book about crazy fandom. It’s completely gripping and what it comes down to is: Will she ever sleep with one of them? And the answer is left ambiguous.”↗