Judy Murray loves the Bay City Rollers and The Singing Kettle!

Teenage secrets of Wimbledon champion’s mum.

Tennis mum Judy Murray has spoken of her love of the Bay City Rollers and how she could have been mistaken for one of the band as a teenager.

The British Federation Cup captain claims she looked like a boy thanks to a mullet haircut she sported.

The hairstyle was made popular by her favourite band, 1970s tartan teen sensations the Bay City Rollers.

But when her school bus driver kept repeatedly calling the sensitive 15-year-old “son”, she begged her mum to get her ears pierced so she could appear more girly.

Appearing on Desert Island Discs today, Judy jokes with host Kirsty Young, 45, how she could have been mistaken for a Bay City Roller.

She said: “The Bay City Rollers just make me think of my school days. I had the wide tartan trousers and the mullet.

“I looked like a boy and I had to beg my mum to pierce my ears because the bus driver called me ‘son’ all the time.”

The 54-year-old also speaks of how she was close to choosing the world of fashion over the game of tennis.

Previously the UK’s eighth best female player with a host of tennis honours, she put her sporting career on hold to go to university.

After leaving Edinburgh University she was offered a job as a trainee manager for fashion chain Miss Selfridge but left after she grew “bored” of the role.

She then joined a sweet firm as a sales rep where she worked before having her family. It wasn’t until 1994 she began working as a professional tennis coach.

The mum-of-two says the hardest job of all was the first 18 months of Andy’s life when she had him and his big brother Jamie to look after.

But she also claims the tough start to their life might have led to the brothers becoming world-class tennis stars.

She said: “We’d [My husband and I] moved from Glasgow to Dunblane leaving all our friends behind and the tennis club I was a member of.

“I had no car. I was like ‘I’m stuck’. We had no money in those days. You know how expensive it is to take kids out and if you’ve no car it’s hard.

“So I became an expert in playing games in the house with them, as did their dad and grandparents. Because of that they became more co-ordinated at a young age.”

In the programme where besides the Bay City Rollers’ Shang-A-Lang she also picks Amy Macdonald’s version of Caledonia and the Singing Kettle’s Jeely Piece Song as music she’d take to a desert island she admits she turned the sports-mad family’s kitchen, living room and hallway into make-shift tennis courts to hone the boys’ skills.

In the interview she also talks about her darkest day the massacre at her sons’ Dunblane primary school where twisted fiend Thomas Hamilton gunned down 16 pupils and a teacher.

Speaking ahead of this year’s Wimbledon tournament beginning, she also adds despite her reputation, she’s anything but a pushy mum.

Judy, whose luxury item would be anti-ageing moisturising cream, said: “I support my kids but I’ve never pushed them into anything. As a mother of sons I’ve come under more criticism than a father of sons or a mum of daughters.

“There’s something about a sporty mum of sons that some parts of the media particularly the male section of media don’t appear to like. But I’ve never spoken out about it so the boys don’t get distracted.”

Andy Murray, 27, became the first Brit to win Wimbledon in 77 years last year. His defence of the title is due to begin against Belgium’s David Goffin on Centre Court at 1pm on Monday.