Derek Longmuir (born 19 March 1951,

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former drummer and a founding member of the pop group

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. His elder brother Alan Longmuir played bass guitar in the group.

Career

He formed his first band at age 13 in 1964, with his brother Alan. Their name eventually changed to

after throwing a darts at a map of the United States, and the dart landing near

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. After signing to a record company in 1971, the Rollers would become one of the biggest acts of the 1970s. BayCityRollers1976RobBogaerts

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. He appeared on each of the band's nine studio albums through to 1981. He decided to leave the Bay City Rollers during a tour in Japan in 1982. Derek had left by 1983.

Personal life

Longmuir was born to Duncan and Georgina Longmuir. His father, Duncan was an undertaker. Derek and his older brother Alan Longmuir both went to

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, and left school at age fifteen in 1966. He had two sisters, Betty and Alice. He retired from the

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in the early 1980s and trained as a nurse working at

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in 1993. He would regularly volunteer at children's hospitals. Derek had spent some time working in Portugal with the red cross. When Alan Longmuir suffered a heart attack in 1995, Derek was one of the nurses who helped him recover. In 1991, Longmuir was in a relationship with Janice Green, who was also the person to convince Derek to take nursing as a profession. Throughout the 2000s, Longmuir and several other members of the band were in court trying to receive unpaid royalties.

Arrest

In 2000, Longmuir was sentenced to 300 hours of community service after admitting to possessing child pornography. Despite his guilty plea, he maintained that the offending materials did not belong to him but were left behind by an acquaintance. Longmuir said he pleaded guilty in hope of avoiding a "media circus". Despite his conviction and initially being suspended from working as a nurse, the conduct committee of the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing Midwifery and Health Visiting (UKCC) decided to give him a caution and allowed him to continue working as a nurse. In an interview in the ''

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'' on 7 May 2000, Longmuir's foster son, Jorge Loureiro, said that Longmuir was innocent and had been framed by an obsessed American fan he had befriended, with discs having been sent to his home anonymously days before he was arrested. As a result of the arrest, Longmuir was absent from reunion concerts featuring

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, Alan Longmuir, Eric Faulkner, and Stuart Wood.

References

Bibliography

* Stambler, Irwin, ''Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock & Soul''. 1974. St. Martin's Press, Inc., New York, N.Y. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Longmuir, Derek 1951 births Scottish nurses Living people Musicians from Edinburgh 20th-century Scottish criminals Scottish rock drummers Scottish male drummers Bay City Rollers members Scottish people convicted of child pornography offences Criminals from Edinburgh Scottish male criminals