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| Birth Name(s) : Ian Watkins, Lee Latchford-Evans, Claire Richards, Lisa Scott-Lee, Faye Tozer |
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Full Steps Biography
Steps have been described by Pete Waterman, their writer and executive producer, as "Abba on speed". But Hi-De-Hi! meets the Village People is probably more apt. The girls are as relentlessly cheerful as Kylie during her Stock, Aitken and Waterman period, the boys as shiny as chrome on a brand-new bumper. Steps are five bright, highly likable singers and dancers who cut their showbiz teeth in the gruelling cabaret world of stage schools, holiday camps, cruise ships and hotel bars, and who have now become huge stars.
Two years ago, a respected music television producer called Tim Byrne was hired by a record company to make a 90-minute line-dancing video with the cast of Emmerdale, on the back of a single the soap stars had released as the Woolpackers.
The song and subsequent video were hastily put out after research had shown that line-dancing classes up and down the country were registering record levels of attendance - just as they had done a few years before in America, where the hobby now warrants its own television channels and is considered a national sport.
To the surprise of Byrne, the cast and the record company, the video walked off the shelves. Nobody had bargained for such commercial success and, more surprisingly, nobody seemed that keen on following up on the project.
But Byrne had different ideas. He quickly set about placing an ad in The Stage for an open audition for a five-piece line-dancing pop group. Five thousand applicants later, he had signed the group he christened Steps to a one-single deal with 5, 6, 7, 8 - an irritatingly catchy tune that hung around in the charts for three months.
Since then, Steps - an amalgamation of Take That and the Spice Girls - have become the most successful new pop group to come out of Britain in the past 12 months. They have charted in 20 countries and have sold more than 2.5m copies of their debut album, Step One, and 5m singles. |
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