It produced two singles: " Pride (In the Name of Love)" and "The Unforgettable Fire".ġ988 An Irish singer-songwriter Enyawent to number 1 in the UK with " Orinoco Flow", the first single from her second album, "Watermark".ġ988 Paco started his five week run at #1 in France with " Amor de mis amores". He is best known as the keyboardist in The Cure.Ĭharts 1982 An English rock band Supertramp reached #1 in France with " It's Raining Again", the single from their seventh studio album, ".Famous Last Words.".ġ984 U2 started reached #1 in Australia with their fourth album, "The Unforgettable Fire". This Day In 80’s Music Birthday 1955 Roger O'Donnell, an English musician, was born. Billy Joel – It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me.Billy Joel – You’re Only Human (Second Wind).Their songs still get airplay and are still being sung in karaoke bars.Search Search 1980s Music Videos 1980s Music Videos Billy Joel Westlife is now gone but their memories remain. Should you listen to “Uptown Girl”, Westlife version?
How wrong I was! If I could still remember, Westlife thanked the Backstreet Boys in one of their albums. I used to believe there was a sort of bitter rivalry between the two. The Irish pop vocal band is the king of covers.ĭue to the mentioning of the word “backstreet guy”, I thought Westlife was poking fun at the Backstreet Boys. If there are any artists that can cover original hits, Westlife can do better. Westlife did an amazing job with other artists’ hits – they made other artists’ songs theirs. I learned it was a Billy Joel hit few years later.
“Uptown Girl” by Westlife, a charity single for Comic Relief Ignoranceĭue to the lack of access to information (or was it ignorance or people not telling me what I should know), I thought this was a Westlife original. Years later another old classmate gave me a bootlegged CD of their 2005 album Face to Face. To date, I have two Westlife cassettes given to me by my mother, two preloved cassettes I bought from my classmates, and two bootlegged ones. It will be a year before I bought a pre-loved Coast to Coast album from a former classmate. I even borrowed the cassette single from a second degree cousin, who was lucky enough to own Millennium by the Backstreet Boys and The A List by A1. Westlife with German model Claudia Schiffer (image from ) Cassette tape memories Hats off to Mark, one of the gay artists that I truly respect.
And yes, ten summers ago too, he came out of the closet. The lads were lucky to land famous supermodel Claudia Schiffer as their leading lady for the music video, and member Mark Feehily had a crush on her. The book contains interesting details about the band’s beginnings up to the recording of their third magnum opus World Of Our Own. This song was really in my head in the summer of 2001 until August 2001, and living through the years ahead, I have never forgotten this song.ġ0 summers ago, my mother bought me a book about Westlife.
One of the best summer singles ever (in my list) ranking alongside “ Helena” by My Chemical Romance and “ Cry” by Mandy Moore (I will blog about this song some other time). Today is the 17th year anniversary of the release of their third album World of Our Own. Foreword: This blog post is originally posted on the Blogger/Blogspot version of this blog on June 12, 2015.
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