Tuesday, April 03, 2007




History of Blue





The most predominant were a British boy band consisting of four members: Lee Ryan, Duncan James, Antony Costa, and Simon Webbe. The band released their debut single "All Rise" which sold more than 1.300.000 copies on May 21, 2001 and the song rose to number four on the British Top 40. Blue released their next single, "Too Close" (a cover version of Next's song), on August 27, 2001 and this song was Blue's first number one single. After the cd single Too Close there were two new singles from the album All Rise; If you Come Back and Fly By II (which is a remix of Fly By). Those singles sold more than 200.000 copies in the UK. The band released a new single and album, in the summer of 2002, both called "One Love" which was the best Blue album, selling more than 3.000.000 copies. Their next single, which also reached number one on the British Top 40, was a duet with Elton John entitled "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word", a cover version of one of John's songs. This track was number one in Europe for 6 weeksThe band decided to split after Elton John suggested that their popularity was decreasing and that they should concentrate on their solo careers. They did so after releasing their Best Of Blue greatest hits compilation in 2004, which contained a few new tracks such as "Curtain Falls", "Get Down On It" and "Only Words I Know".Blue were also British pop/rock group formed in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1973 by Timmy Donald (b. 1946, Bristol, Avon, England) (drums), Ian MacMillan (b. 1947, Paisley, Strathclyde, Scotland) (bass, guitar, vocal), and Hugh Nicholson (b. 1949, Rutherglen, Strathclyde, Scotland) (guitar, vocal, keyboard). Signed to Elton John's Rocket Records label (John also produced them), they released their self-titled debut album, then added Robert "Smiggy" Smith (b. 1946, Kiel, Germany) (guitar) for their second, Life in the Navy. They were then reorganized, with MacMillan and Nicholson remaining and adding Charlie Smith (drums) and David Nicholson (guitar). This lineup scored a U.S. singles chart entry and U.K. Top 40 hit with "Gonna Capture Your Heart" and recorded the third album Another Night Time Flight (1977) and the fourth album Fool's Party (1979), after which Blue broke up. A Swedish indie band from the early 90's was also called Blue. They released two albums on the Skellefteå label A West Side Fabrication, "Blue" (1993) and "Sitting on a Sofa" (1994).Another band with the same name is a project of Chris Mann and Paul Darking from the UK. They play a mix of Dub, Downtempo, Ambient, Trip Hop and other electronic styles.They released three official albums (Resistance, Mexican Church and Nightwork), one mini album (Corrosion), some EP's and do appear on some compilations. Last activity was in the year 1999.

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