Ronan’s latest
album "Bring
You Home" is his 5th as a solo artist
and 9th counting all the Boyzone albums. His
solo career has now lasted longer than his time at
Boyzone – not
bad when you think he is still not 30!
In 2004 Guinness
World Records presented Ronan with
the World Record for the Longest Complete Run of Top
10 Singles (30 in total) beating the likes of Madonna
and Elvis.
As an artist, Ronan had
already received virtually every accolade known to man: from numerous Smash Hits Awards for 'Most
Fanciable Male' and MTV Awards for "Best
Pop Band" to a coveted Ivor Novello Award for 'Picture
Of You' - the song he wrote for the Mr Bean movie
- joining the ranks of pop superstars George Michael
and Sir Elton John.
In the summer of 1999 Ronan released
his first solo single, 'When You Say Nothing
At All',
taken from the Brit Award winning 'Notting Hill' film
soundtrack. Ronan's first solo offering
naturally stormed into the charts at No. 1 and 'When
You Say Nothing At All' became one of the love songs
of the year selling in excess of half a million copies.
Ronan flew out
to Los Angeles in January 2000, to write and record his debut solo album.
His reputation as an artist of the highest calibre has
lead to him working with some of the world's best songwriters
and producers, from Steve Lipson, Pat Leonard (Madonna) and
Barry Gibb (Bee Gees) to Bryan Adams and Gregg
Alexander (The New Radicals).
The first single from the album was the upbeat and summery 'Life
Is A Rollercoaster', which was released to the world
on 10th July. Needless to say, Ronan scored his second
No. 1 hit as a solo artist.
Ronan himself describes
the album as "a real mix of pop, rock and traditional
music. I'm proud of every single track.
Each song sounds and feels very special. I was really
nervous at first about going in to the studio on my own
without the other lads (Boyzone), but it was exciting
to create my own stuff and to write with new people.
I'm really happy with the result."
With tracks such as the poppy 'Life Is A Rollercoaster',
the rocky 'If You Love Me' and the Bryan Adams/Phil
Thornalley penned 'The Way You Make Me Feel' the
album has something for everyone. Add to that the Irish
sounding 'Only For You' plus the beautiful ballads 'Once
Upon A Lifetime' and 'In This Life' - and
you've covered the whole spectrum! Simply entitled Ronan
- the album was released on 31st July.
Ronan's autobiography Life Is
a Rollercoaster was released. A heartfelt journal
of Ronan's life experiences to date,
the book tells it just as it happened. His success as
a solo artist is on a roll, the rollercoaster keeps going.
Just three months after the release of Ronan's debut
solo album, the album has already sold in excess of 500,000
copies worldwide, his presence in Europe lead to his
nomination for "Best Male" at the
MTV Awards in Stockholm on the 6th November.
Following the massive acclaim of his debut solo album,
and the number 1 success of "Life is a Rollercoaster", Ronan has
now released the third single from the album, the heartfelt
and passionate ballad "The Way You Make Me Feel",
penned by Phil Thornalley and Bryan Adams, is a
very laid back and mellow song full of passion and drive.
Ronan has
enjoyed chart success for over 10 years now, which
is far more than most Artists ever achieve. He has notched
up an impressive chart history having had 13 consecutive
Top 10 Hits (28 if you include the 16 he notched up with
Boyzone)…which
is a World Record! He has sold in excess of 21 million
Albums across the globe… and this by the age of
29!
The Peel Bay Festival welcomes Ronan
Keating and McFly to
the Isle of Man and is very proud to put together what
will undoubtedly be an unforgettable and totally amazing
night. |
McFly
Hundreds of thousands of votes have been
placed in the annual Virgin.net Music Awards and the results
are in….. McFly
are top of the list and scooped the award for Best Group ahead
of My Chemical Romance and The Lost Prophets confirming they are
the No.1 pop band in the UK!
Dougie also obliterated the competition for Most Fanciable
Male ahead of ex Blue's Duncan James and Justin Timberlake.
So far McFly have had eleven top
ten singles, six of
which were number ones in the UK Singles Chart and three
top 10 albums two number one albums. In 2004, McFly< /B> won
five Smash Hits Awards including Stars of the Year, Best
UK Band, Best Album (Room on the 3rd Floor), Best Video
(That Girl), Best Stars of the Year and Danny Jones won
Most Fanciable Male McFly beat t heir number of awards
in the 2005 Smash Hits Awards by winning Stars of the
Year, Best UK Band, Best Single (All About You), Best
Album (Wonderland) while Danny Jones won Most Snoggable
Mal e and Dougie Poynter won Top Mop. Also in 2005, McFly
won Best Pop Act at the Brit Awards.
2005 was quite a remarkable year
for McFly. They scored
their second number one album, Wonderland (debut album
Room On The Third Floor entered the UK album chart at
No1, earning the band an award from the Guinness Book
of Records for being the youngest band ever to chart
at No1 with their debut album (an award previously held
by The Beatles). They had two more number one singles
(All About You, I'll Be OK), which brought the total
number of chart-topping singles released by the band
to five (while guitarist and vocalist Tom Fletcher has
co-written a further three No 1's for Busted b ringing
the total to a remarkable eight No 1 hits, all before
the age of 21).
They headlined the Live 8 concert in Japan and played
at the pre-G8 summitt in Glasgow. They embarked on another
sold-out arena tour, which was later turned into a No1
platinum selling DVD. They made their first film, Just
My Luck, with Lindsay Lohan, the hottest young actress
of the moment.
They travelled to Uganda as ambassadors
for Comic Relief. They performed at the Royal Command Performance and met
the Queen, an experience only mildly tainted by drummer
Harry Judd's unique choice of coiffure 'I had a mohican,
he groans'. They gained fans from far beyond the usual
pop milleu
- 'I've lost count of the number of my mates, or my brother's
mates, or my dad's mates that have seen us live and are
shocked, who go 'damn, you're really good'' says Harry.
Amassing a fanclub that includes everyone from screaming
teens to Brian May of Queen. 'He came onstage with us
the other day' says guitarist and vocalist Danny Jones.
'I t was one of the greatest moments ever for me. He
wrote a thing on his blog afterward s saying that we
could easily outplay any respectable rock band. And we
had a jam with him backstage beforehand as well. Andy
from Razorlight walked in as we were jamming with Brian
May and said 'well, that's one way to warm up for a gig''
Given that 2005 was the year that
pop music was widely pronounced dead, McFly continued to buck the trend with
a triumphant 12 months work, after which the quartet
took some Christmas holidays.
They returned refreshed, with bassist Dougie Poynter
bearing what Tom describes as 'this whole vision for
McFly, all these ideas for the next album. Me and Danny
went on a cruise from Miami all around the Carribean,
and we had a drunk chat about it one night on the balcony
of the ship'
explains Dougie. 'There was lots of surf stuff around,
which was really inspiring, designs by this artist called
Drew Brophy that I really liked.
We already had the album title Motion In The Ocean from
when we were in a burger bar in Beverly Hills and a friend
of ours was telling us about a friend of his who said
'it's not the size of your boat, it's the motion in the
ocean'. Me and Tom looked at each other, like: 'album
name!''.
Dougie had ideas for the band logo, for the album cover,
an underwater photoshoot and for videos. It's been a
great process this time around as a lot of our ideas
have been embraced. We're really proud of this album.
The album stretches from the harmony-drenched
pop of
Sorry's Not Good Enough, equal parts Queen and the Beach
Boys, to the bizarre psychedelic showtune Transylvania,
written by Poynter under the influence of acclaimed US
power-pop band Jellyfish's 1993 masterpiece Spilt Milk.
'They really went for it, they're stuff's quite funny
and a little bit weird' he explains, 'It just makes you
think you can do anything in a song'. At one extreme,
there's the tear jerking Bubble Wrap, which starts out
a gentle piano ballad an d ends up with crashing electric
guitars, an orchestra, the kitchen sink etc. - at another
the pure McFly pop of new single Star Girl which went
st raight to number 1, which includes a flatly hopeless
Uranus pun, but is, as Harry rightly points out 'no more
stupid than 'what's that coming over the hill, is it
a monster?''. 'I had this dream that we wrote this song
about falling in love with an alien and it was an amazing
mega worldwide hit' says Tom. 'I told Dougie about it
and he said 'well, you should do it with this one''.
But it is album opener We Are The
Young, a teen-pop
take on the power chords and drum thunder of Who's Next-era
Who, that perhaps best encapsulates the new McFly mood.
'There's nothing like us around' says Tom. 'People need
pop music. We've stuck around, we've stuck through this
bad time for pop music and our fans have stuck with us.
Now we're back, doing exactly what we want to do. It
really feels like this is what we should be doing'.
Now McFly bring their own totally
unique style of "Nu-Pop" to
the Isle of Man for the very first time …..be
part of the experience!
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