First (and worst) lead singer in the Bay City Rollers who left the group in 1973 before the group became massive and mega successful vows to recover decades worth of royalties!
First and worst lead singer claims his vocals were on the hit single Saturday Night when it was released in the US.
Clark has vowed to recover decades worth of royalties claiming to have been the 'voice' of the group for almost a decade before leaving the group and Bay City Rollers lead singer Les McKeown joining the group in 1973. The late Les McKeown died in 2021
Nobby Clark claims he was the main voice on the Edinburgh band's biggest US hit. He has also claimed to have been the driving force in the Bay City Rollers and claims to be the main reason for their success. (He's clearly delusional)
As the Daily Record reports, Nobby Clark claims it was his voice on the single that broke the band in the US - Saturday Night. He also claims he was conned out of cash by Rollers manager Tam Paton, who has also passed away.
Mr Clark said: "When the band filed a motion to have me dismissed from the 2011 court case in New York against Arista/Sony for unpaid royalties, they forced me out." He added: "For years, certain members of the band's so-called 'classic line-up' have done everything in their power to write me out of the Rollers' story.
"I'm sick of it. Some were not even in the band when songs like Keep on Dancing and Remember were hits."
He added: "The Bay City Rollers sold an estimated 120million records, which include many songs sung by me, yet band members destroyed my right to present evidence to that effect in court.
"I discovered, while speaking to a record company insider, money due to me was split between classic Bay City Rollers members and Tam Paton. I received nothing." Claiming it is his voice on key Rollers hits in the US, Nobby said: "The Bay City Rollers' only No 1 in America, Saturday Night, was released by Arista Records with my lead vocal and backing harmonies. (Well he would say that wouldn't he. Anyone remember him saying any of this when Les Mckeown was still alive? No, I didn't think so. He waited until Leslie Mckeown was dead to make this ludicrous, false claim. I wonder why)
"One band member actually phoned me to tell me I'd better get my lawyer on to it." Nobby Clark was the first singer in the group with Dave -Pettigrew, Neil Porteous and the Longmuir brothers. But this line up was not a worldwide success and most people in the UK, USA, Australia and the rest of the world had never even heard of them. Nobby Clark left the group to pursue a solo career. It was only after he left and a new lead singer Leslie Mckeown joined the group in 1973 as well as a new guitarist Stuart Wood that the group became successful and a worldwide phenomenon causing mania everywhere they went as the 5 members (including Leslie Mckeown, Eric Faulkner and Stuart 'Woody' Wood) became household names in the UK, Australia, The USA and beyond.
Mr Clark (72) claims that throughout the 60s and early 70s Mr Clark took the band into the top ten and on to Top of The Pops. (The guy is clearly not only delusional but a liar and an egomaniac)
Mr Clark reveals how he told Paton he was leaving the band in 1973 (some claim he left in 1972) while the last song he sang on 'Remember' was in the charts.
On his role in their biggest US hit, Mr Clark said: "Saturday Night was sent to Clive Davis, head of Arista Records in America, after Les McKeown had joined the band.
"He was unaware my voice was on it because the record company in London and Paton did not want him to know I had left the band and that they had a new singer. They later re-recorded the song with Les for an album but by then Saturday Night had already entered the Billboard Top 100.This is what Mr Clark claims. This was confirmed by Alan Longmuir and Bill Martin, the co-writer of Saturday Night, when we met in Edinburgh before his death in 2020."
Mr Clark added: "It has taken me a long time to gather evidence of 35 Rollers albums released worldwide featuring my voice as well as a list of single releases prior to the classic line-up filing a motion to have me dismissed from the court case against Arista/Sony. That took any chance of receiving my royalties away from me but I'll continue to fight for what is rightfully mine."
29th June 2023
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That's right two dead people no chance of them defending their side
Unbelievable!
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