These guys blasted on the AM radio in mid/late 70s, and you couldn’t avoid them even when you wanted to. But “Saturday Night” was a great summer party song that year. I remember there was a Huge push on San Francisco’s KFRC AM, that broadcasted across Northern California, as the next coming of a new Beatles. They were serious about this, and for awhile there was a lot of momentum for this group. But, glam rockish teen pop bands could only go so far in a Led Zeppelin era. Anyway, this is how I remember a bit of it. Sorry to hear about the passing of lead singer Les.
The very rare “Punk” magazine, the first of its kind, essentially a mimeographed 20 page fanzine had a funny and yet very loving tribute for the band back when in the late 70s. It should be noted that there was a lot of “the next Beatles” bands in the 1970s. Klaatu comes to mind when KSAN FM tried to pass off one of their records, perhaps half jokingly, as being a stealth Beatles record. The reasons for this at the time was people really wanted The Beatles to get back together again, and put out another record and tour.