Alan Longmuir - アラン・ロングミュアー
Biography
Alan Longmuir (born 20 June 1948, Edinburgh, Scotland) was the
Scottish bass guitarist for the 1970s pop group, the Bay City Rollers. Longmuir was
born at Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion Hospital, Edinburgh, and is the elder
brother of the group's drummer, Derek Longmuir.
In 1976, at the height of the band's popularity, Alan Longmuir was replaced by
Ian Mitchell, a man ten years his junior. Tam Paton, then the group's manager,
alleged that Longmuir had tried to commit suicide. Longmuir returned 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.
Longmuir lives in Scotland with his wife Eileen.
