15th Mar 10
New Boyzone album tops the charts
by Natasha Redman
The first album since the death of bandmate Stephen Dately has shot straight to the top of the UK charts, while the band is set to give their first performance together since the popstar’s untimely death.
The single Brother is the band’s firth number one album and features vocals recorded by Gately shortly before his death in Majorca.
The singer, 33, died from natural causes while holidaying in a Majorcan villa in October last year, and had been working on a new album for Boyzone shortly before his death.
The band released one of the tracks off the album in January as a tribute to Gately.
The single, Gave It All Away begins with Gately’s singing “I’ve learned to live before I do, I’ve learned to love and learned to try not to give it all away.”.
At the time of the release of the track, Boyzone singer Ronan Keating said that the four members had given their heart and soul to the song and to make the best possible record that they could for Stephen and his family.
He went on to say that Stephen had recorded the entire song, so they were able to go away and work with what he had done.
Keating said that he hoped the end result did him justice, and thought the song was beautiful.
Meanwhile, Boyzone had revealed that they were almost ready to commence touring again.
The band, which performed for the first time since Gately’s death last week, said that sales of their album had inspired them to get on the road and tour again.
Our Stories
- SuperGroup issues profits warning
- Summer bookings boost for TUI Travel
- Consumers cut back in January following Christmas surge
- BT to introduce ultra-fast broadband
- Retail veteran warns of high street death spiral
- Tesco exec who sold shares moved from role
- Tesco market share slips
- UK consumer confidence recovers
- Gary Speed talked of suicide before death
- Tesco scraps carbon-label pledge
- UK university applicant numbers fall 8.7%
- Stelios blasts easyJet bonuses
Popular Topics
afghanistan al qaeda Apple ASDA bank of england barack obama BBC british airways china david cameron Debenhams Egypt facebook george osborne Google India ipad iphone ivory coast japan Libya London M&S Marks & Spencer Morrisons nhs North Korea Office for National Statistics pakistan protests russia sainsburys Sainsbury’s South Korea terrorism Tesco Tunisia UK UK retailers UK retail news UK shopping us Waitrose Wikileaks x factorArchive
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- January 2009
