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"Stephen Gately Stephen Patrick David Gately (17 March 197610 October 2009) was an Irish pop singer-songwriter, actor, children's writer, and dancer, who, with Ronan Keating, was co-lead singer of the pop group Boyzone. All of Boyzone's studio albums during Gately's lifetime hit number one in the United Kingdom, their third being their most successful internationally. With Boyzone, Gately had a record-breaking sixteen consecutive singles enter the top five of the UK Singles Chart. He performed for millions of fans globally. He released a solo album in 2000, after the group's initial break-up, which charted in the UK top ten and"
"article offensive, this does not make its publication unlawful."" Stephen Gately Stephen Patrick David Gately (17 March 197610 October 2009) was an Irish pop singer-songwriter, actor, children's writer, and dancer, who, with Ronan Keating, was co-lead singer of the pop group Boyzone. All of Boyzone's studio albums during Gately's lifetime hit number one in the United Kingdom, their third being their most successful internationally. With Boyzone, Gately had a record-breaking sixteen consecutive singles enter the top five of the UK Singles Chart. He performed for millions of fans globally. He released a solo album in 2000, after the group's initial"
"gay couple in a boyband music video for ""Better"", in what was to be his last with the band. Gately died of a congenital heart defect on 10 October 2009, in a flat that he and Cowles owned in Mallorca, Spain. Brian Boyd in ""The Irish Times"" stated: ""Stephen Gately’s death represents the first time that the boyband genre has had to deal with such a tragic situation"". Tim Teeman of ""The Times"" (UK) heralded Gately as a hero of gay rights for his response to being ""smoked out of the closet"". Gately grew up in relative poverty in the"
"College. As a teenager he appeared in various musicals and theatre performances at school, such as ""Juno and the Paycock"". He was estranged from his parents for years, but reconciled with them in 2008, and visited them with Andrew Cowles that year. Gately joined Boyzone upon their formation in 1993. The group became known in Ireland after an infamous appearance on ""The Late Late Show"" that year, which presenter Gay Byrne dismissed—although he later concluded: ""They certainly had the last laugh on us"". Boyzone's first success outside Ireland was when the song ""Love Me for a Reason"" reached number two"
"had established himself as a successful solo artist. He scored a Top 30 hit and did not chart otherwise during the year. David Gray kickstarted a very successful music career hitting No. 5 with his debut single ""Babylon"" and his debut album ""White Ladder"" finally reaching the top of the charts after a 64-week climb. The album is a great success, selling over 2.6 million copies and placing 18th in the top-selling albums of all-time in the UK. Two males started their careers early in the year, but by the end their success had mostly dissolved. Stephen Gately, ex-Boyzone member,"
"his career, who informed Ronan Keating that Gately had died. Gately's bandmates flew to Mallorca on 11 October 2009; The remaining members of Boyzone, Keith Duffy, Michael Graham, Ronan Keating, and Shane Lynch, issued a joint statement: We are completely devastated by the loss of our friend and brother, Stephen. We have shared such wonderful times together over the years and were all looking forward to sharing many more. Stephen was a beautiful person in both body and spirit. He lit up our lives and those of the many friends he had all over the world. Our love and sympathy"
"include Prince, U2, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Biz Markie, The Killers and The Beatles. In June 2010, Holice announced they would be recording a track entitled ""The Hoo Song"" for the blockbuster motion picture ""Breaking Dawn"", which is the final instalment in the Twilight Saga. In 2011, the band pledged to raise at least £4,000 for the Help for Heroes charity by donating a week's worth of proceeds from their single So Beautiful. Sadly, proceeds only amounted £15.36. Stephen has featured in several television shows including ""Emmerdale"", ""Coronation Street"", ""Shameless"" and ""Hollyoaks"". Films include ""Dancing thru the Dark"", ""Back"
"Keating and Lynch had memorial ""76 09"" tattoos (Gately's birth and death years) engraved on their bodies when they brought Gately's body home. Irish boy band Westlife said: ""We are, like everyone else, in shock today. We met Stephen Gately back in 1998 when we first started out and since then had the pleasure of meeting him many times. Himself and the Boyzone lads paved the way for us as a band. Our thoughts are with Andy and the rest of his family, his friends, his legions of fans and of course his bandmates Keith, Mikey, Shane and Ronan who"
"The Gaylords and subsequently invited to join the group. Shortly thereafter, McAleese adopted his stage name (a moniker he coined by combining the names Dean Martin and Tennessee Ernie Ford) and The Gaylords were re-christened Dean Ford and the Gaylords. With hopes of achieving more commercial success, Ford and the band relocated to London in 1965. Three years later, Marmalade, with Ford as lead singer, became the first Scottish band to score a #1 hit song on the U.K. pop singles chart.[1], also racking up many prior and additional consecutive quality hits worldwide. In addition to his lead vocals, Ford"
"death, manager Louis Walsh described Gately as ""the glue in Boyzone, he kept them all together"". Keating informed the congregation at Gately's funeral that he had nicknames for them all; ""the campest straight band in the world""—Rosaleen, Michaela, Kitty, Shanice and Stephanie. After success with Boyzone, the band decided in 2000 to move on to solo projects. Gately was the first, with his debut solo single, ""New Beginning"", released on 29 May 2000. The single reached number three in the UK charts. Two weeks later the album ""New Beginning"" was released and entered the charts. The album included twelve tracks"
"will be devastated at the loss of a truly beautiful person."". Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said: ""It's so sad. Boyzone and Stephen, they've all been part of Irish life and far wider than that, the last 15 years, and so successful, so it's a huge, huge tragedy. He was 33 years of age, 15 years at the top, a fine musician, it's just a huge tragedy to Irish entertainment, Irish music and further afield as well"". Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism Martin Cullen paid tribute: ""Stephen Gately was a gifted young man with a talent for singing which brought"
"and single coincided with the apogee of boy band popularity, and their success was most apparent in Ireland, the UK, and most of African, Asian, Australian and European countries. They had 12 worldwide concert tours over their 14-year career and sold over 5 million tickets. On April 2001, over one million fans wanted to chat with the lads from 122 countries. Voted worldwide as the best boy band on ""MTV Battle of the Boybands"" with over thirty-two bands in the choices in 2012. Their battle between Backstreet Boys garnered the highest rate of votes with more than one million. The"
"thought twice before picking him, claiming less than a year before his death that ""it wasn't cool then to have a gay guy in a band"". Walsh described Gately as his ""very, very best friend"" after the singer's death, saying: ""Of all the people I've worked with I don't think anybody thanked me as much as Stephen. He used to always say to me, 'If I wasn't in Boyzone I don't know where I'd be today, thank you'"". Stephen Gately died at his home in Port d'Andratx, Mallorca, early on 10 October 2009. His body was discovered later in the"
"hospital revealed nothing broken. A Huge contribution to the background and lead vocals has come from backing vocalist Jo Garland who has sung with Ronan Keating in his solo ventures since 2001 and with Boyzone since 2008, her vocals have been more prominent often covering for vocals that Stephen Gately sung. Brother Tour The Brother Tour was the first tour by Irish boy band Boyzone following the death of Stephen Gately. At first the band were uncertain about promoting Brother but due to the album's success they decided to go on tour. The act included their entire discography as well"
"Johnny Gentle John Askew (born 8 December 1936), known as Johnny Gentle, is a British pop singer best remembered for having briefly toured Scotland with the Silver Beetles – later known as the Beatles – as his backing group in 1960. John Askew was born and grew up in Liverpool. After leaving school he was apprenticed as a carpenter, and, using a borrowed book for instructions, made his own guitar. He teamed up with Bobby Crawford and the pair began performing at local clubs, singing Everly Brothers songs, before Askew took a job working on a luxury ocean liner. On"
"Kingdom. As of October 2013, the album had sold 450,000 copies worldwide. It became their first studio album released in 12 years. This album is named in memory of member Stephen Gately, who died five months before its release. However, Gately's vocals did appear on the band's songs ""Gave It All Away"" and ""Stronger"", making it the final album to feature Gately's vocals and is released posthumously. The album was recorded in 2009, and was released on 5 March 2010 in Republic of Ireland and was released on 8 March 2010 in the United Kingdom. The album contains the single"
"in the UK Singles Chart in 1995. The group split suddenly following a string of performances in Dublin's Point Theatre in 2000. By the time Boyzone originally rested the band, they had achieved six number ones on the UK Singles Chart. They were considered a major pop band of the 1990s and had a much publicised rivalry with UK boy band Take That, even selling more singles than them. Gately shared the majority of lead vocal work with Ronan Keating. A February appearance at the 2008 Meteor Awards relaunched the reformed Boyzone, with touring taking place throughout 2008. After his"
"In 1999, the Florida Boys were inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. In 2007, the Florida Boys had two personnel changes at relatively the same time, as long-time bass singer Gene McDonald left to work for a bus company, and tenor Harold Reed left to join the Kingsmen Quartet. McDonald was replaced by Butch Owens, and lead singer Josh Garner moved up to the tenor position, with Les once again singing lead for the group. Then, in June 2007, Les Beasley announced that the legendary quartet would be disbanding the following month. However, he also announced that they"
"by Barnaby Edwards; this was his first solo track since 2001. In September 2007, Gately began touring the UK in an 11-week run of Stephen Schwartz's rock musical ""Godspell"", but withdrew from the production after just three weeks for contractual reasons. In 2008, Gately appeared in the independent horror film, ""Credo"", which was released in the United States as ""Devil's Curse"". In 2008 following his solo career and various bouts of acting and television appearances, Gately rejoined his old colleagues when Boyzone reformed, following the success of revived contemporaries Take That. Gately had been the most eager to reform and"
"McCullough on lead guitar. The band was joined by Tony Gallagher on rhythm guitar (born in 1943 in Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland) and Barry Scully on bass (born in 1944, in County Dublin, Ireland, died 10 December 2007, of a heart attack). The band advertised for a lead singer and found one in Gene Chetty (born Dushy Anthon Chetty, 2 January 1944, in Durban, South Africa), a Trinity College law student, who had come over in 1962 to study law. He auditioned for the group and got the job. The Gents made their debut on St Patrick's Night, 17"
"Brother Tour The Brother Tour was the first tour by Irish boy band Boyzone following the death of Stephen Gately. At first the band were uncertain about promoting Brother but due to the album's success they decided to go on tour. The act included their entire discography as well as the newer songs from the brother album. They promoted the tour on various television shows. The band attempted to have a hologram of Stephen Gately but this wasn't possible. Keith Duffy fell through a trap door at the Cardiff show but he continued the performance. A subsequent check at the"
"Brother (Boyzone album) Brother is the fourth studio album by Irish boy band Boyzone, released on 5 March 2010 in Ireland. It is the band's first studio album in 12 years. The album is named in memory of member Stephen Gately, who died in 2009 five months before its release. However, Gately's vocals did appear on the band's songs ""Gave It All Away"" and ""Stronger"", making it the final album to feature Gately's vocals and is released posthumously. Upon its release, ""Brother"" received favorable reviews from most music critics. The album debuted at number one in Ireland and the United"
"""the poorest parts of Dublin City"" and ""a place of civil unrest and terrorist activity"". The content of the introduction prompted the Gately family to release a statement to the ""Sunday Independent"", published on 16 May 2010, saying they ""wish to make it clear that these statements are not correct and do not reflect the views of the family"" and that Gately completed his secondary education and even attended college. However in several early interviews Stephen himself confessed to leaving education to join Boyzone, and never completing his finishing exams. Gately's friend, Keith Wilson, contributed black-and-white line drawings to the"
"Boyzone Boyzone are an Irish boy band. Their most famous line-up was composed of Keith Duffy, Stephen Gately, Mikey Graham, Ronan Keating, and Shane Lynch. Boyzone have had 21 singles in the top 40 UK charts and 22 singles in the Irish charts. The group have had six UK No.1 singles and nine No.1 singles in Ireland with 12 of their 24 singles in the UK being in the UK Top 2. Boyzone are one of the most successful bands in Ireland and the United Kingdom. In total, Boyzone had 19 top 5 singles on the Irish Singles Chart, 18"
"British male vocal group. Martin-Smith's vision, however, was a teen-orientated group that would aim across more than one demographic segment of the music industry. Martin-Smith was introduced to young singer songwriter Gary Barlow, and was so impressed with Barlow's catalogue of self-written material that he decided to build his new look boyband around Barlow's musical abilities. A campaign to audition young males with abilities in dancing and singing followed, and took place in Manchester and other surrounding cities in 1990. At 22, Howard Donald was one of the oldest to audition, but he was chosen after he got time off"
"their 17th consecutive top five single. On 8 December their second single of 2008 ""Better"" was released and charted at No. 22 in the UK charts, No. 26 in the Irish charts and N. 63 in the European hot singles charts. On 28 August 2009 the group joined Yvette Fielding in Edinburgh for a ""Ghosthunting with..."" show for ITV2. In 2009, Boyzone played their Better Tour, which was the last tour to feature Gately. On 10 October 2009, Gately died suddenly at his flat in Port d'Andratx, Majorca. Gately's bandmates flew to Majorca on 11 October 2009; Walsh was expected"
"him tremendous success as a member of Boyzone and also as a West End star. There was a joy about his music making, and his death at such a young age is both a personal and professional loss"". Andrew Lloyd Webber said it is ""a great loss to the musical world"". Elton John said he and his partner David Furnish were ""stunned"" when they heard the news. Katherine Jenkins twittered of ""memories 2 cherish"" from a night out in the weeks leading up to his death. Stephen Fry described Gately's demise as ""a dreadful shock"". ""This was not supposed to"
"Beverley's). In 2012, the line-up of the Gaylads comprised Seaton and Randall Thaxter. By 2016 the group comprised Seaton, Harold Davis, and Dennis Spencer. Maurice Roberts died on 14 August 2015 at the age of 70. As the Psalms The Gaylads The Gaylads are a Jamaican vocal group. They were one of the top rocksteady vocal groups active in Jamaica between 1963 and 1973. The group, formed in Kingston, originally consisted of singers Harris ""B.B."" Seaton, Winston Delano Stewart and Maurice Roberts; Seaton and Stewart had previously been successful as the duo Winston & Bibby. There would be several line-up"
"Boys Town Gang The Boys Town Gang were a disco and Hi-NRG band from San Francisco, California. Their popularity peaked in the 1980s when the group reached No. 5 on ""Billboard""'s Hot Dance Club Play chart with the single ""Cruisin' the Streets"" and No. 1 in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain (No. 4 on the UK Singles chart) with their cover version of ""Can't Take My Eyes Off You"". In 1980, DJ Bill Motley saw an opportunity to form a group that catered to San Francisco's large gay clientele. In his search to form a group, he auditioned hundreds of"
"yielded three UK hit singles, including the top three hit ""New Beginning"". Gately went on to appear variously in stage productions and on television programmes as well as contributing songs to various projects. In 2008, he rejoined his colleagues as Boyzone reformed for a series of concerts and recordings. Gately made his sexuality known in 1999 and came out in a blaze of publicity. He wed Andrew Cowles, first in a commitment ceremony in Las Vegas in 2003 and more formally in a civil partnership ceremony in London in 2006. Upon Boyzone's reformation, Gately featured as part of the first"
"a total length of three minutes and forty seven seconds. The video is a tribute to the late Stephen Gately, and features footage from his time in the band and previously unseen footage from his personal life. The video revolves around the four remaining band members reminiscing about Stephen and mourning his passing. The video has received over three million views on YouTube. ""Gave It All Away"" reached No. 1 on the Irish Singles Chart, knocking Jedward's Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby) from the top spot. On 7 March 2010, ""Gave It All Away"" debuted on the UK Singles Chart"
"top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart, nine No. 1 Irish hit singles and six No. 1 UK hit singles and five No. 1 albums, with 25 million records sold by 2013 worldwide. They were put together in 1993 by Louis Walsh, who is also known for managing Johnny Logan and Westlife. Before even recording any material, Boyzone made an appearance on RTÉ's ""The Late Late Show"". The group split in 1999. Boyzone made a comeback in 2007, originally with the intention of just touring. The band have sold 2 million records since their return. Gately died on 10"
"Stephen Gately, and as such, the track entered the Irish Singles Chart at number 45 for the week of October 22, 2009. Irish boyband Westlife sang a version of the song on their 2005 album Face To Face. Due to its popularity and its many downloads, Westlife's version got to Number 87 in the UK Singles Chart. In This Life (Collin Raye song) ""In This Life"" is a song written by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin, and recorded by American country music singer Collin Raye that reached the top of the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. It was"