Wednesday, November 3, 1999   PEOPLE Courtney plans film on Rollers LIZ HODGSON Seventies teeny-bopper band the Bay City Rollers will be immortalised on the big screen - thanks to rocker Courtney Love. Love, 35, has an option on the film rights to Bye, Bye Baby, a book by Caroline Sullivan about her obsession with the Scottish band, and plans to direct the film. The clean-cut outfit, promoted in the US as "the new Beatles', had a string of hits, including Bye, Bye Baby and Give a Little Love, and attracted a fanatical following of teenagers who imitated their tartan clothes. But their squeaky-clean image was tarnished with the revelation that they took Valium to help them cope with the traumas of touring, and that guitarists Ian Mitchell and Eric Faulkner were treated for overdoses. The band split up in 1978 amid rows over music and money. Several Rollers have faced tragedy; Billy Lyall died of Aids, Al Longmuir is partially paralysed after a stroke and Les McKeown was involved in a driving accident in which an elderly woman was killed. Love, leader of the band Hole and widow of rocker Kurt Cobain, fell in love with the story of the Rollers when she reviewed the book for Britain's Observer newspaper.
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