I remember when Howard hosted his own Variety Show, “Saturday Night Live” (this was before NBC started their own show called “Saturday Night”, which then became “Saturday Night Live”)
His plan was to introduce the “New Beatles”, that band was “The Bay City Rollers”.
It looked that way during a brief time in the mid 1970s.
I think it was August 1976 and the Bay City Rollers were coming into Boston for a concert. Local station WRKO would give out the flight information of the plane the band was coming in on. There were 5,000 screaming girls when the plane landed and my sister was one of them. The reception was definitely Beatle-like.
By 1978, the Bay City Rollers were mostly forgotten. But they had quite a ride for a while there.