Alan Longmuir

Alan Longmuir (born June 20 1949) was the bass guitarist for the 1970s pop group, the Bay City Rollers.

He was born at Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, and is the elder brother of the group's drummer, Derek Longmuir. In early 1976, at the height of the band's popularity, Alan was replaced by Ian Mitchell, a man ten years his junior. Tam Paton, then the group's manager, revealed that Alan had tried to commit suicide. Longmuir would return to the group in 1978.

Longmuir played the lead in the 1981 film "Burning Rubber", an auto-racing melodrama filmed in South Africa.

Lately in poor health, he suffered a heart attack in 1995 and a stroke in 1997.

Today, Longmuir lives with his wife, Eileen, in Scotland.

References

Stambler, Irwin, "Encyclopedia of Pop, rock & Soul". 1974. St. Martin's Press, Inc., New York, N.Y. ISBN 0-312-25025-8