RIP Les McKeown

I was a bit obsessed. The Rollers never came to Plymouth, which at the time was heartbreaking,  but may have been for the best!

Les was my favourite. That hat was plastic and would make my head sweat but I refused to take it off, even at bedtime. My parents would sneak in once I was asleep to remove it. I was the envy of my friends because my Mum made a Rollers outfit for my Cindy doll.

The band members were all young and naive, they were chewed up and spat out by the industry and all struggled throughout their lives. Les has died at 65, part of so many of our childhoods gone.