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In their heyday, the Bay City Rollers elicited hysterical reactions from screaming followers that rapidly grew to become often known as ‘Rollermania’ and now their achievements have been celebrated with the planting of a tree devoted to them of their hometown, Edinburgh.
The cherry blossom tree, Prunus Kanzan, has been donated to the town by American businessman Paul Malouf on behalf of his spouse, long-time Bay City Rollers fan Yoshiko Malouf, after she contacted the City of Edinburgh Council asking if it may be doable to pay tribute to her favorite band of their house metropolis.
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Yoshiko was delighted when a Council employee advised that she contact Tree Time Edinburgh.
In city along with his spouse this week to go to the tree that has been devoted to the Bay City Rollers, Mr Malouf defined, “Yoshiko wanted to do something to honour the group and this was a wonderful way for her and others to remember them.
“I did this as a birthday gift to my wife. The Bay City Rollers had a strong influence on her. Her love for their music motivated her to learn English and started her journey to Scotland. She loves Scotland, its history and especially its people. Two of our daughters attended university here. She is Scottish at heart.”
The tree was planted final Friday and carries a plaque that reads: ‘Dedicated to the Bay City Rollers, whose Scottish tartan pride was displayed for all to see. Their music brought joy and happiness to the world’.
Pic by: Paul Malouf
The tree, on Coronation Walk within the Meadows, is a Sakura, a decorative Japanese cherry tree that doesn’t produce fruit. It was donated by means of Tree Time Edinburgh, an organisation that works to plant massive, outstanding timber in streets and parks, ‘planting replacement landmark trees before the old ones die as well as trees in other public places and urban woodlands, new and existing’.
The Prunus Kanzan species was advised by Edinburgh’s tree officer, a straight alternative for the timber which have been faraway from West Meadows.Mr Malouf added, “I want fans to know there is a place to sit and enjoy the Cherry Blossoms while they listen to the Bay City Rollers. There is a bench nearby.”
The planting of the commemorative tree comes at a time when there’s a resurgence of curiosity within the legendary Edinburgh pop band, shaped within the 1960’s by Alan and Derek Longmuir and singer Nobby Clark.
Last Saturday, Alan’s spouse, Eileen Longmuir, led a 100-strong delegation of Rollers’ followers by means of Manhattan as they marched within the reminiscence of her late husband in New York’s annual Tartan Day Parade, whereas subsequent week, Mr Clark, the voice of the Rollers all through their first decade, is ready to revisit his legacy throughout two offered out occasions within the Capital that may see him carry out his Rollers’ hits and a few of the band’s forgotten songs for the primary time in 5 many years.
