Who are Boyzone?
THE BOYZONE STORY -
It wasn't the likeliest of pop history moments
If you had been there, you might have chuckled at the
crotch-grabbing freestyle dancing and you might also have
fancied them rotten....that's ok.....you would have been right on
both counts, but, you would have been missing the main point
Because the moment that Boyzone first danced their way onto
'the late, late show' with Gay Byrne, pop history took a turn
down a different leg of the trousers of time.
Millions of records have been sold since,
Millions of fans have besieged gigs,
Millions of words have been written about them and millions of
young fans will never be the same again.
If you feel that perchance liberties are being taken with the word
'millions'...........we beg to differ!
Boyzone have sold more than 10 million albums since 1993,
they have also completed sell out tours all over the world,
had five number one records and they have found time to become
husbands and fathers in between.
That's a packed five years by any standards and deserves a
few grandiosities.
This is a record (if you'll pardon the pun) of a growing-up in process
done in the public eye
Boy bands are no different from real boys in that they all grow
up in the end. The only difference is that boy bands do their growing up
in front of an audience, not in their bedrooms surrounded by smelly
trainers and pots of spot cream. Boyzone have taken alot of flack as well
fan mail and it hasn't been easy all the way.
Pop bands need crocodile thick skin to survive, but the Boyz have
done good....they're still here.....they're going strong,
they do things the way they want to and they don't mind if you don't
want their record in your cd rack.
Initially they may have been tarred with the same brush as a slew
of anonymous boy bands. But, they've proved to be more durable than
any of them.
For the benefit of those of you who have been asleep for the last five
years, here comes the history bit.............
Continue to Boyzone History
-taken from album jacket of 'by request'-
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