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The Pop Years
''The Pop Years'' is a British television show that reviewed pop music of a certain year from 1980 to 1999. It was first shown on Sky1 in 2003 and was later repeated on Sky3. The programme featured archive clips relating to the particular year that it was reviewing, e.g. music videos or live performances. It also featured interviews with famous singers from that year and talking heads who enjoyed that year's music. The show ran for a single series of 20 episodes and was narrated by Scott Mills and Edith Bowman. Pundits ''The Pop Years'' contained interviews with many celebrities, who acted as pundits or talking heads for the show, and discussed various aspects of the year that was being featured. Some of these included: *Alan Carr * Ali Bastian * Andrew Collins * Anthony Wilson *Betty Boo *Brandon Block *Claire Sweeney *Clint Boon *Colin Murray *Darius Campbell * Don Letts *Holly Valance * James Redmond * Jazzie B *Julia Carling *Kate Lawler *Kerry Katona *Limahl *Louis Walsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Block
Brandon Block (born 26 November 1967) is a British club DJ. He has appeared on reality shows like '' Celebrity Come Dine with Me'' and ''Celebrity Big Brother''. He is well known for appearing on stage heavily intoxicated at the 2000 BRIT Awards. Friends suggested that he had entered a musical contest and had won ''Best Musician of the Year'', when in fact he had not even been nominated for the award. This resulted in a confrontation with award presenter Ronnie Wood and Thora Birch. Early life Block was born in London. At the age of four, he moved to Wembley along with his mother, who still lives there today. Block's career started out in 1985 at the John Lyon pub in Harrow, Middlesex. According to Block himself, "My friends and I used to buy a lot of funk and soul (the sound at the time) and one night the DJ there didn't show, so me and my then DJ Lewis asked the governor if we could bring the records down and do it. We were so good that he fired the DJ. In fact, it got so popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Walsh
Michael Louis Vincent Walsh (born 5 August 1952) is an Irish music manager and television personality. He has managed Johnny Logan, Boyzone, Jedward and Westlife, four of Ireland's most successful pop acts in the 1990s and 2000s. He later became a talent judge on television shows such as ''Popstars'' (2001–2002), '' You're a Star'' (2003–2004), ''The X Factor'' (2004–2014; 2016–2017), and ''Ireland's Got Talent'' (2018–2019). Early life Michael Louis Vincent Walsh was born in Kiltimagh on 5 August 1952, the son of Maureen and Frank Walsh. He has one older sibling and six younger siblings. He was raised Roman Catholic. Music manager Having moved to Dublin to start his music industry career in the 1990s, Walsh decided to create an Irish version of Take That, which the papers picked up on when he advertised the open auditions. The end result was Boyzone, whom he managed to international success with 16 top three singles, six of which were number ones, as well as fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limahl
Christopher Hamill (born 19 December 1958), known professionally as Limahl (an anagram of Hamill), is an English pop singer. He was the lead singer of the pop group Kajagoogoo beginning in 1981, before embarking on a brief solo career, garnering the 1984 hit "The NeverEnding Story", the theme song for the film of the same name. Early life Christopher Hamill was born on 19 December 1958 at Pemberton, Wigan, Lancashire, in North West England, to Eric and Cynthia Hamill. He has one sister and two brothers. The four children were all born by the time their mother was 22. Hamill attended Mesnes High School, Wigan, Greater Manchester, Orrell, before eventually enrolling at the Westcliff-on-Sea Palace Theatre Repertory Company. Career With aspirations to be an actor, Chris Hamill toured with the company in a production of '' Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat''. In 1980, he was given a small role in an episode of the ITV police series ''The Gentle Touch''. In 1981, he als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry Katona
Kerry Jayne Elizabeth Katona (born 6 September 1980) is a British media personality and singer. She was a member of girl group Atomic Kitten from 1998 until her first departure in 2001 and again from 2012 until her second departure in 2017. Katona was the winner of the third series of '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' in 2004, making her the first queen of the jungle, and was runner-up of ''Celebrity Big Brother 8'' in 2011. In 2021 she competed in the third series of ''Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins''. Early life Katona was born in Warrington, Cheshire. Katona's maternal grandfather is Hungarian who fled Budapest to London during the Second World War. As a child she was placed in care and brought up by four sets of foster parents and attended eight different schools. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Lawler
Kate Lawler (born 7 May 1980) is an English television personality, presenter, model and DJ. She became the first female winner of ''Big Brother UK'' after winning the third series of the reality series in 2002. Since ''Big Brother'', she has presented various radio shows including Capital FM and Virgin Radio. She has also appeared in television series including ''Celebrity Wrestling'' and '' Love Island''. ''Big Brother'' Lawler won the third series of '' Big Brother'' in 2002, the first female contestant to do so. Later career In September 2002, Lawler became a DJ on Capital FM, a position she held until December 2003. She co-presented the Channel 4 breakfast TV show '' RI:SE'' from February 2003 until it was axed in December of that year. In 2005, she was one of the competitors in the ITV show ''Celebrity Wrestling'', competing under the name The Brawler. She helped her team, The Warriors, win the team championship, but was eliminated in the semi-finals of the individ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Carling
Julia Stringer (; born 28 February 1965) is a British journalist and television presenter. She is the ex-wife of former England rugby captain Will Carling. Career Her television credits include: * ''VH1 UK'' ( VJ) *''The Big Breakfast'' (Channel 4) *''Top of the Pops'' (BBC) *''This Morning'' (ITV) *''Celebrity Baby'' (Sky One) *''Top To Toe II'' (Carlton Midland, 2004) She wrote a book called ''Beauty Scoop'' with Kate Shapland, published in 2004. Personal life She had a relationship with guitarist Jeff Beck from age 18, living with him for six years. She married England rugby captain Will Carling in 1994. They divorced in 1996. Julia married Sony executive Rob Stringer in 2006. She is a vegetarian and is interested in Egyptology, having taken a Diploma in the subject at Birkbeck, University of London , mottoeng = Advice comes over nightTranslation used by Birkbeck. , established = , type = Public research university , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazzie B
Trevor Beresford Romeo OBE, (born 26 January 1963) better known as Jazzie B, is a British DJ and music producer. He is the founder of Soul II Soul. Life and career Jazzie was born in London UK to parents of Antiguan descent in Hornsey, London, the ninth of ten children, several of whom began running sound systems in the 1960s and 1970s. At age 18, Jazzie was working for cockney pop skiffle legend Tommy Steele, as a tape operator. He had his first gig in 1977 working with friends under the Rastafari name Jah Rico. He changed their working name to Soul II Soul in 1982. Soul II Soul was originally an umbrella name for several of his projects - the sound system, a clothing line and Camden record shop, a record imprint, as well as the group itself. From 1985 to 1989, Jazzie and Soul II Soul would hold what would be regarded as a legendary night at the Africa Centre in Covent Garden. The Soul II Soul track "Fairplay" was recorded there just before the group started to find wide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Redmond (actor)
James William Forbes Redmond (born 24 November 1971) is an English actor, presenter, stand-up comedian and model, known for his roles as Abs Denham in ''Casualty'' and Rory Finnigan in ''Hollyoaks''. Career Redmond first rose to fame when he began modelling in Milan in April 1994, after being spotted by fashion scout Calvin French. Following a string of advert appearances, he was offered a part in the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks''. Redmond played Rory Finnigan on the show between 1997 and 2002, before leaving the series to present ''SMTV Live'' and '' CD:UK''. Redmond's stint at ''SMTV Live'' lasted three months, as producers decided he had not settled into the role leaving Redmond reportedly "gutted". Redmond resumed his acting career with a leading role in the first series of Sky One drama ''Mile High''. Then in 2003, he began portraying the role of Abs Denham in the BBC medical drama ''Casualty'', and remained on the series for five years until he quit in 2008, the cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Valance
Holly Rachel Candy (; born 11 May 1983), known professionally as Holly Valance, is an Australian actress and singer. Valance began her acting career on the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'', as Felicity Scully (1999–2002, 2005, 2022). She released her first album, ''Footprints'' (October 2002), which provided her top 3 singles, "Kiss Kiss" (April 2002), " Down Boy" (September) and " Naughty Girl" (December). By that time she had relocated to Los Angeles. Her second and final album, '' State of Mind'', appeared in November 2003. Her film roles include, '' DOA: Dead or Alive'' (2006), '' Pledge This!'' (2006), '' Taken'' (2008) and ''Kambakkht Ishq'' (2009). Valance has lived in her mother's native United Kingdom since 2009 and became a contestant on the BBC One dance competition ''Strictly Come Dancing'' in 2011. In 2013, she was a mentor and judge of fashion competition, '' Shopaholic Showdown''. In September 2012, Valance married British property developer Nick Candy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Letts
Donovan "Don" Letts (born 10 January 1956) is a British film director, disc jockey (DJ) and musician. Letts first came to prominence as the videographer for the Clash, directing several of their music videos. In 1984, Letts co-founded the band Big Audio Dynamite with former Clash lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist Mick Jones (The Clash guitarist), Mick Jones, acting as the band's Sampling (music), sampler and videographer before departing the band in 1990. Letts has also directed music videos for Musical Youth, the Psychedelic Furs, Fun Boy Three, the Pretenders and Elvis Costello as well as the feature documentaries ''The Punk Rock Movie'' (1978) and ''The Clash: Westway to the World'' (2000). Biography Letts was born in London, and educated at Archbishop Tenison's Church of England School, Tenison's School in Kennington. In 1975, he ran the London clothing store Acme Attractions, selling "Electric blue (color), electric blue zoot suits and jukeboxes, and pumping dub reggae al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darius Campbell
Darius Campbell Danesh (19 August 1980 – 11 August 2022) was a Scottish singer-songwriter, actor and film producer. He first came to prominence as Darius Danesh when he appeared in the first series of ''Popstars'' in 2001, and the 2002 inaugural series of the ITV talent contest ''Pop Idol''. Under the name Darius, he recorded two studio albums, ''Dive In'' (2002) and '' Live Twice'' (2004), with both reaching top 40 in the UK Albums Chart. His debut single, "Colourblind", reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in 2002. His next singles, " Rushes" and "Incredible (What I Meant to Say)", reached the top ten in the UK in 2002 and 2003, respectively. Campbell Danesh performed the role of Billy Flynn in the West End production of ''Chicago'' in two runs of the musical. He played the lead role of Sky Masterson in the Olivier Award-winning ''Guys and Dolls'', and the originating role of Rhett Butler in Sir Trevor Nunn's theatrical adaptation of ''Gone with the Wind''. In 2010, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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