Ian Mitchell

Just 16 years old when he was plucked from the obscurity of a Belfast club band and thrust into the fiery glare of the Bay City Rollers, Ian Mitchell was a member of Scotland's Scariest for just nine months, between March and December 1976. History records this era as the most successful in the group's history ("Saturday Night" topped the U.S. chart during his stint), but the tension and in-fighting were intolerable. Finally decreeing, "I had to get out before I put my head in the gas oven," Mitchell fled home to Northern Ireland, where he reconvened the band full of school fr...