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00:00THE END
00:11OK, so we're rolling.
00:13Five, four, three, two...
00:16Hi, I'm Steve.
00:17How are you doing? I'm Mike.
00:18I'm Shane.
00:20I'm Keith.
00:21And I'm Ro.
00:21And we're boys on.
00:22We'd like to thank you, our fans, for owning us the best group.
00:26See you later.
00:32Louis Walsh promised us the sun, noon and stars.
00:38And boy, did he do that.
00:43Everything changed. It became bigger and bigger.
00:48Everything we did worked.
00:50Every single we released, every album we released,
00:53every ticket we put on sale sold.
00:56And we're selling sex media at the end of the day on stage.
00:58Young girls with hormones, you know, going through puberty and adolescence.
01:03And it's exciting to see five lads jumping around the stage.
01:06And you don't want to break that illusion.
01:08It wasn't possible for Stephen to be a gay man in a boy band in the 90s.
01:15I was covering up his sexuality all the time.
01:19And I was pretending he was straight.
01:21Absolutely.
01:22And at night time, we got a picture with a pretty girl.
01:24I put him in there and say he was going out there.
01:27And he went with it.
01:30You see all the girls coming back? I just jumped in.
01:33We were saying hello to them.
01:36He was quite happy going along with what he was doing.
01:39Go away. I'm doing an interview. Go away.
01:43I don't think he would have come out himself, you know, of his own will. No.
01:50The push and pull of fame, the constant scrutiny.
01:56The band, it got more and more intense.
02:00Relationships broke down.
02:02Resentment started within the band.
02:06That was the beginning of the end.
02:40The pop group Take That have confirmed they're to split up after three years of success,
02:45including seven number one hits.
02:47The band's record company has set up a special phone line to counsel distraught fans.
02:52When Take That split, we thought we'd won the bleeding Super Bowl, I think,
02:57because, you know, we were nipping away at their heels so much.
03:01I mean, we were the Irish type that. We looked up to them boys.
03:04There was a shift in gear for us. When Take That decided to call it a day,
03:10you know, the fans needed somewhere to go.
03:13There's no doubt our audience grew.
03:20It was a big year for the band, yeah. It was a huge year successfully.
03:23Love Me For A Reason was number two.
03:25All the singles after that floated around,
03:27but it wasn't until Words, the first single on the second album,
03:30that we went number one.
03:34It's only words
03:36And words are all I have
03:39To take your heart away
03:43Sharing the stage with the Bee Gees was a big moment for us.
03:45I remember this dreamy realisation that there I was,
03:50stood on the same stage, singing with these icons.
03:55That was mind-blowing, that was, you know.
03:59Ladies and gentlemen, boys out. Thank you.
04:03We were kind of the biggest boy band in the world at the time.
04:05It was a pretty big deal.
04:07After that, it went crazy.
04:17The success of it all was so much that you literally couldn't walk down the street without being noticed.
04:30It was absolute fame. It was everywhere, everywhere you looked, everywhere you went.
04:39We didn't get any media training or any sort of training.
04:47Kind of made it up as we went along.
04:53It can be dangerous, you know, there's pitfalls in that.
04:59Looking forward to a Scotch.
05:07I was a showbiz journalist from 95 to 2008.
05:13For me, it was Get The Splash, which is the front page.
05:16That's all I cared about. That was the Holy Grail.
05:23I think it's over 50 splashes, front pages I got.
05:26Which is a lot.
05:27I'm not obviously bragging, but I'm quite proud of what I did.
05:30What were you known for?
05:33I don't know. I think a lot of people have got various words for me.
05:36But to be honest, I just got stories.
05:39The show was gossip and obviously the majority was pop at that time.
05:43Because it was the charts are a huge thing.
05:48We were losing to the sun every week, almost every day.
05:54It was a really unrelenting war of attrition between the sun and the mirror.
06:00You were always trying to work out their next move or what their next interview was or what story they
06:05got.
06:06Boyzone became my biggest obsession.
06:10Money is no obstacle.
06:14Everybody was on the payroll.
06:16Security guards at clubs.
06:19They told me stuff.
06:20Drivers, coke loom attendants.
06:23All sorts.
06:23A lot of it was they were cheating on people or whatever it was.
06:26But they did it.
06:27So we wrote it.
06:32Most of the times Lewis said write what you want.
06:35There were times when he said don't write certain stuff but 99% do what the hell you want.
06:47We're doing okay.
06:49We're doing okay so far.
06:52I'm trying to be honest with you.
06:55I got to know Ralph Singh very well and he would come to Ireland to see me and get stories
07:00of me.
07:00He needed stories.
07:02I needed press.
07:03It worked for both of us.
07:05He would call me up.
07:06I would give him everything on the group and we would, you know, we kept the badge in the papers
07:11basically.
07:14I've respected him a lot.
07:16We had a good relationship.
07:18Louis would tell me, oh, just don't put this in.
07:21And I said, okay, fine.
07:22But then you owe me one.
07:23Or the other way around or, you know.
07:25And that's how it was done.
07:39Stephen was just absolutely living the life that he had dreamt.
07:42The fans absolutely adored him.
07:44They loved him to bits.
07:49Love the way you love me.
07:54He seemed anxious.
07:56I think he might have been a bit lost or worried about, like, what people might think of his sexuality.
08:02He had to watch himself all the time.
08:04Like, everything had to be in secret, you know.
08:10The papers didn't know he was seeing someone at the time.
08:13Bonjour, je m'appelle Lee.
08:17Bonjour, je m'appelle Elon.
08:24I used to be in a boy band called IMIACT.
08:27Half British, half Dutch.
08:29We were a boy band, like Boyzone.
08:36We managed to become the biggest boy band in Germany.
08:42We needed someone.
08:47Yeah, probably the same audience Boyzone had.
08:51It was a big secret that I'm gay, you know.
08:56Me hiding my sexuality as well was quite a difficult thing.
09:03I always felt like a Mickey Mouse in Disneyland, you know.
09:07I mean, in Disneyland, it's not allowed to take your head off, because once you take your head off, the
09:11whole magic is gone.
09:12And that's how I felt as well.
09:14If I really show who I am, then people won't like me anymore.
09:19Me and Michael's best friends. Look at us.
09:21We look great, for example.
09:23They look wonderful together.
09:27When I met Stephen for the first time, I was on the airport in England, and on the same flight
09:32was Boyzone.
09:34And that was the first time we sort of met, and the moment he looked in my eyes and I
09:39looked in his eyes.
09:40And I thought, wow.
09:41Yeah, blue eyes, very, very sweet face.
09:46Almost like love at first sight.
09:54It was very difficult to start a relationship then, with somebody who's traveling all the time, you know.
10:00Kaylee, get away from me before I break your hand.
10:02No, you won't.
10:04It's very, very difficult keeping up a relationship with anybody.
10:07You're never in the one place at the one time.
10:10You're traveling so much.
10:13I tried to call him with my credit card in the airplane and stuff, and he tried calling me.
10:17You know why I made a lot of phone calls on the telephone last night?
10:22How am I going to take them?
10:24They were two years ago, so no iPhones and stuff then.
10:28Do I have to stay here and go to prison?
10:33Steele was dating Eli for quite a period of time.
10:37We knew Eli well. He used to call on the tour bus.
10:40There was lots of moving pieces around to try and, you know, make it happen that they were there and
10:46they could be together.
10:47This person goes in this car and this, you know, making sure that they got some time together.
10:53We were so, like, used to hiding our sexuality, but slowly we started getting friends in and my friends introduced.
11:02I introduced Stephen to them.
11:06I went over to Ireland, met Michel, his family, stayed with his family, used to go to the pub, drink
11:12a Guinness and stuff, you know.
11:13And that was the nicest, just experiencing normal life, you know.
11:19I remember Stephen being very excited and telling me, oh, I've met somebody and I think this is the, this
11:25is definitely the real thing and I'm absolutely mad about him.
11:31Sometimes I used to look at him and wish I was as happy as he was.
11:37Okay, he might have lived in a certain amount of fear.
11:41But he didn't show that, he didn't show that because he almost didn't believe that was possible for anyone to
11:49come in and take, strip him away, strip that away from him.
11:52I guess he was almost in a bubble of covering and he thought that was impenetrable and was soon to
12:00find that it wasn't.
12:10Somebody came to the Sun, was selling the story that, um, that Stephen was gay.
12:17Somebody sold him out.
12:19Somebody sold Steele out.
12:22Who was it that sold the story?
12:23I can't tell you.
12:24I know you're going to push me on it, but I can't say any more than that.
12:26I really can't.
12:28Do you know the circumstance of how Rav came to getting that story?
12:32No, I don't. I don't know, I swear. I swear to God.
12:37I didn't want Rav to write anything.
12:40His editor was put under pressure to do it.
12:43And if the Sun didn't do it, the Mirror were going to do it.
12:46Or somebody was going to do it.
12:48I think we were flying somewhere and this meeting had to happen before we flew away.
12:53We were all brought into a room and we didn't know why.
12:57We knew there was something going on with Stephen because he was very upset, but we didn't know why.
13:02He knew he told us that the press were going to write a story about Stephen if he didn't come
13:07out as a gay man.
13:10How do you see it?
13:11Well, I think in a way, if he was forced, he was forced with him from his inner circle, not
13:16the Sun.
13:17So we did the best we could, but he was forced by somebody he knew, not us.
13:27He wasn't ready for that.
13:29The poor little fella, he was so afraid, so scared.
13:34And I think we as a band too were like, whoa, what's this going to do for us?
13:38I know how scared he was.
13:40It's awful.
13:43It was fucking horrible.
13:44Like, it was horrible for Steele.
13:49Stephen went to ground, locked himself in his room.
13:55We didn't know what was going to happen.
14:02I want to understand, you know, how big a deal was it for you, for the paper?
14:06Yeah, can I have some more water?
14:08Can I have some more water?
14:09Yeah, of course, will you?
14:10Sorry.
14:12It's all right, I just need to, because my mouth's getting dry.
14:18I mean, it was a big thing.
14:19I mean, it's huge.
14:21I had so many phone calls to drive about it.
14:25We knew we could trust him a certain amount.
14:29Not totally, but we could do it our way.
14:33That phone call we always feared was finally happening.
14:36I think Stephen and me were very nervous about it.
14:41I was worrying so much.
14:43You know, sleepless nights, worrying, panicking.
14:46You know, it was a hard time.
14:50And I remember just putting my arm around him and just saying to him,
14:53listen, you know, we'll still be here.
14:56You're not going to lose us.
14:58But he was very concerned as to what damage it would cause us as a band.
15:09He felt like I'm put in a position that I have no choice, you know, but to do it.
15:15Stephen was only 23 years old when he was outed by the newspapers.
15:22Did any part of you feel uncomfortable about writing the article?
15:26No. I never felt uncomfortable at all.
15:29I'm not.
15:30I'm a celebrity journalist. I have to write it.
15:32It's a show business. That's my job, you know.
15:37I actually have the newspaper and I'm wondering if I can show it to you.
15:40Oh, yeah?
15:46I was fucked, man.
15:56I was fucked.
15:57Boys on stairs, Stephen Galey has chosen The Sun to make his courageous announcement.
16:01Fuck you.
16:02You didn't fucking choose.
16:10Sorry. Sorry.
16:21It's just a bit difficult.
16:28Just seeing all that again.
16:31What does it bring back for you? What does it, kind of, the stress of it?
16:36Yeah.
16:39Yeah, I suppose just, just everything he went through.
16:46You know, it was very, very difficult for him.
16:51It's horrible for him.
16:54Heartbreaking.
16:56That paper doesn't show any of the truth in what he felt or what was going on.
17:02Awful.
17:03Fuck me. It was awful.
17:04It was a terrible time for him.
17:08Oh, you got the full paper.
17:10Oh, my God.
17:11Boys on Stephen, I'm gay and I'm in love.
17:13Oh.
17:14He's talking.
17:14It's a great picture.
17:16World exclusive.
17:17Wow.
17:19I love it.
17:21Page 22, 23.
17:23This is when the song was big.
17:25And it's, it's the lead story.
17:28Wow.
17:30It's good to see it.
17:32And he got the front page.
17:34What's Louie's role in this as the manager and the kind of press manipulator?
17:37I don't know.
17:41Wasn't, wasn't seen.
17:44Wasn't anywhere around.
17:46I was trying to protect him all along.
17:47I thought, well, it's going to come out anyway.
17:51And Stephen might be happier.
17:55Well, good morning to you.
17:56Hi. Morning.
17:56If you haven't heard, boys own Stephen Gately has come out.
17:59He's said that he's not ashamed of being gay.
18:01Why should he be?
18:02And he thinks it's time to be honest and tell everybody.
18:04Mind you, we hear that, as usual, the poor lad wasn't given that much of a choice in the timing
18:08of that statement because another newspaper had kindly decided to out him themselves.
18:12I thought they'd all said they wouldn't do that anymore.
18:21Shortly after, the headlines in the newspapers, we had to play into 100,000 people in Hyde Park.
18:30Obviously, with all the press that we're getting lately with certain members of the group and stuff, it's quite difficult.
18:34You know what I mean?
18:35That would be Stephen you're talking about, isn't it?
18:36Absolutely.
18:37Stephen's kind of keeping a bit of a low profile.
18:39We were all just concerned about Stephen's well-being and his happiness.
18:43He was our brother.
18:46But Stephen was concerned about the reaction that the fans would have to him being gay.
18:52I didn't know which way it was going to go.
18:54Whether it was going to go negative or whether it was going to go positive.
18:57And I, you know, always think of the worst.
19:02Joseph M Overl respost
19:06Yeah!
19:08Give it up!
19:11Give it up!
19:12Whoa!
19:19Go keep it quick, move it.uryold
19:23With you
19:34it's a very pleasant surprise for everybody when the reaction was so positive the fans
19:41embraced him that's what really carried him the love they showed him was powerful that was amazing
19:49there was nothing but messages of love and support you know the burden of a
19:54lifetime was lifted off his shoulders and he was free to be who he truly was
20:15even after he came out he was still the favorite one and he was still the one that everyone wanted
20:20to marry even though they knew he was gay
20:26everything went well the sport's been amazing from all directions male female young old
20:33at the end of the day it's about giving hope to other people and i hope that i have done
20:38that you
20:42know
20:42it should be your own decision and i know because the story got offered it wasn't our own decision in
20:49the
20:49beginning but the biggest gift we got was freedom freedom is such a beautiful thing what we all deserve
20:59you know and in the end we were not hiding a horrible secret we were hiding love
21:08before we perform it i'd just like to say a big thank you to everybody out there
21:16we're making by the breast our latest greatest hits album number one
21:23and today it's gone right back into the charts at number one again so thank you very much to all
21:27you out there who bought it once again and also a big thank you for making this record our sixth
21:34number one this is you knew the mayor
21:39i mean we were big for a minute we did all right you know
21:46the six months after steel came out it was crazy it was absolutely crazy how are you i'm ro and
21:52we're boys only i'd like to say a big hello to all our fans in southeast asia we're looking forward
21:56to seeing you soon your single would drop in the country that you weren't expecting and go holy
22:00god right it's just after breaking there we've got to get the boys over there
22:05i love you coming from where we came from very humble beginnings and all of a sudden being
22:12catapulted into this superstardom traveling in private jets around the world staying in five-star
22:17hotels we filled in a lifetime of memories in six years once we conquered one country we went to the
22:25next country and we grew there we're going under the tunnel over to the island of hong kong
22:31right now we're underneath the water i don't remember anybody really looking out for us apart
22:37from mark plunkett i was hired to look after them as tour manager the with the band day in day
22:45out you
22:45know 50 weeks of the year you know we saw everything together
22:52boys on at the peak would be one of the biggest bands in the world
22:55it really was like peaceful mania remember one time they literally shut the airport down there
23:00were so many girls that we just could not move we just couldn't get them out of the airport for
23:04about
23:04half an hour it was crazy the engine was in full flow trips out to southeast asia and australia
23:14south america and europe became nuts just the amount of traveling we did you could see everyone was getting
23:21tired the pressures of stardom the pressures of touring family pressures do start to take its toll
23:29at some point something goes goes bang 99 was probably the too big for our boots tour
23:36we'd lost the run of ourselves at this stage this is it we couldn't got any bigger
23:41as it got bigger it became harder to keep them happy because they wanted more and they wanted more time
23:49off at his peak is a grueling time grueling time there's no mercy whatsoever we were all physically
23:57mentally and emotionally exhausted we hadn't more than three weeks off in six years we were tired
24:04we were tired we were broken very excited about to release outwee lads yeah see yay
24:15we had spent too much time together and with that comes difficulties you know relationship
24:24difficulties between us you know and maybe that was the start of cracks
24:37what does nick rhyme with it's a difficult job being a manager they all had egos and they all wanted
24:53to be more famous than they were rona was the one i could depend on i knew if i needed
24:58something done
24:59or if there was a gig somewhere that they didn't want to do i knew he would talk them into
25:04doing it
25:08i was the line of communication to the rest of the lads
25:13i was willing to be up earlier than anyone else to contact everybody to make sure that the flights
25:19were booked the taxis were booked whatever it took he was managing the group kind of with me
25:25you know he was making a lot of decisions i was talking to him almost daily on the phone about
25:30everything there was nothing i didn't talk to him about
25:37but i knew it wasn't gonna last forever boys
25:40i knew the little girls that loved them were all grown up and they were going to find somebody else
25:54i remember we were touring southeast asia
25:58i used to get a bit homesick we all did and if you had too much to drink you might
26:02get a bit teary-eyed
26:02and ring home and reminisce and have a little cry on the phone and you know your mom and dad
26:06would
26:07pick you up and put you back and i was talking to my dad and my dad was always brutally
26:11honest and he
26:11said yeah i think your days are pretty much numbered son you better enjoy what you're doing
26:16and i said how do you mean dad he said well while you guys are over there louis waltz is
26:19all over the
26:20papers putting auditions together for a new boy band um at the time they were called iou and then
26:26they changed their name to west side and then ultimately to westlife i thought how will i promote westlife
26:36and i said we should get ronan involved
26:40we thought that's going to help with boys on fans louis brought ronan in as 50 manager of westlife
26:46while boys on was still together you may have heard the band i'm in it's boys on i've had so
26:52much crack being in a band that i've decided to manage my own band with louis walsh so here they
26:56are
26:57how you doing i'm brian i'm nicky hello i'm shane do you think the boys fell threatened by westlife
27:03coming in and your attention to them i think probably boys were a bit threatened when they
27:10heard westlife's thing and all that yeah but that's that's kind of natural
27:30westlife came as our support act on our arena tour whenever you have a support act your agent will
27:36secure what's called a buy-on which is a significant amount of money for us for the band from the
27:42record
27:43company of the support act you get them on your stage but westlife never paid on they get on for
27:47free which was a significant amount of the money lost um and that was down to the fact that they
27:53were managed by louis and ronan people were asking me to do things and some of the others weren't getting
28:00asked and it definitely created a little bit of animosity you could feel that welcome back to the last
28:07mtv europe music awards of the millennium where you can't get tickets for love no money believe me
28:12i was offered both on the way in anyway i'm with the show and here to present the award for
28:16best hip-hop
28:17i was pushing him for like to host eurovision to do mtv awards to do anything that was going on
28:23tv
28:23i was always pushing him i knew he wouldn't let me down and i knew he would do a good
28:28job
28:39i had learned through the years how to weed ronan he had a lot of big ideas he always talked
28:46big
28:48you could see this guy was breaking away he was making new tracks
28:53i was just surprised that nobody else could say that yes you know i maximized my an opportunity
29:01i can get rid of these if you want i wasn't embarrassed or feel guilty you know because
29:07i was the one who was going out doing all the work so i worked hard and it paid off
29:18without saying no word you can light up the dark nothing at all was ronan's first solo single
29:28notting hill was was massive no matter who would sing it that was going to be a hit
29:32i had ronan to the mix it's going to be a massive hit
29:46it's called when you say nothing at all they ask me what i do it and i jump to the
29:50opportunity i think
29:50it's a fantastic opportunity for me is because it's my first solo record fingers crossed it goes well
29:56you say it best when you say nothing at all i mean it was incredible it was an incredible moment
30:06such a huge massive record globally it was just a catapult to go everywhere we promoted that song
30:15all over the world i got a taste for that on my own it's euphoric that feeling that you've
30:21don't met you know had that success on your own i think that's when realistically polydor looked
30:27at that and thought hang on a second they saw more future in ronan than they did in boyzo
30:42he's a bit of a solo buzz at the moment you know trying to get a bit of self-praise
30:46but um sound trip going on there don't mind that he'll land he'll land soon he'll land soon
30:51i think that was the first look at who has this what i was just going to work out
31:11i think we were it was i think it was a hard rock cafe and we all ended up in
31:16a bathroom and when
31:18we all ended up in a bathroom together it was because we were being overcrowded or we were being
31:21overcome by fans or people and we'd go in there to get away to have a breather and we'd all
31:27look in
31:27the mirror and and headbang like we're in a rock band it was just something that we did and we'd
31:32laugh and scream and and i suppose release some of the energy of of the realization of our success
31:38it was like oh you know and it was that moment when ronan had voiced the idea of possibly taking
31:44from christmas off for a year ronan simply said we're gonna take a break i was shocked but that
31:53sounded okay to me i needed a break for me it was music to my ears because i had had
32:01enough
32:02i just wanted out you know i think it was more of a shock to me than anybody else i
32:07do remember feeling
32:08you know i'm loving this this is great this is you know i'm 26 years of age i'm a pop
32:13star
32:13traveling around the world you know i'm providing a great future for myself and my family i didn't
32:19i didn't want to break up nobody wanted to break up but everybody wanted a break
32:26it was it's liberating scary fine but it was liberating everyone was ready for a break just
32:33because they were so tired but then i think you know certain people knew exactly what they were
32:38going to do others weren't quite as sure so i guess they'd be a bit more tentative a bit more
32:43concerned
32:44we decided that we will fulfill our obligations in our diary until the end of that year
32:51we did a whole millennium tour so there were shows across the uk and europe there were massive those
33:09shows at the end of the tour we played back home in the point that boat let's try and make
33:13a one to
33:14remember and there was nine nights in a row and they put a plaque on the wall outside the venue
33:21commemorating our success and there was a plaque beside us that would belong to you two who had done
33:25seven or eight nights and we'd beaten their record
33:39that probably was the pinnacle of our career why would i want to give that up
33:58thank you so much for the last six years it has been unbelievable thank you so much
34:05but we're not going anywhere we're not going anywhere we've got some stuff to do on our own for a
34:12while
34:12but believe me boy's own is stronger than it's ever been before
34:29i was just looking forward to a break from it all and to get home and spend time with my
34:36daughter more
34:44i don't think i could ever give up the business i love it so much the same with the rest
34:48of the guys
35:05you know it was tough it was tough leaving the band there was a sense of guilt but excitement for
35:13me as well
35:18i had zero problem with him actually going on to do his own album i think there was probably a
35:23fear
35:24that he would never come back and if that happens what am i going to do with my life
35:37now you might recognize this next club he's usually got other boys with them but he's now in his own
35:42yes of course it's the wonderful stephen gaitley
35:58the boys and guys taking a break and stephen thought the attention is there i need to continue my
36:03success he loved being on stage and performing and stuff so he made a solo album
36:15he was very positive about his solo album he loved being able to put his own input
36:21you know his own songs and writing his own songs he was he was absolutely delighted with it
36:28i'm just out doing my own album hoping for the best hoping that's going to be a success
36:33um i've worked very hard on this album um i spent a lot of time on it spent a lot
36:37of talk
36:38and i wrote most of the songs myself and i've been heavily involved
36:42after being in boy zone i mean they had so many hits so the pressure was on
36:46i class myself as one of the luckiest persons around but the soul of success everybody sort
36:51of expected to happen didn't get as big as people hoped for
37:01he thought his childhood dream was over
37:07it was difficult for stephen and uh you saw his mood change
37:13i always described stephen as a little angel
37:19but the angel wasn't happy anymore and it was just
37:23uh too too difficult to be together so we broke up
37:30i was heartbroken and he was heartbroken as well
37:38it was not that there was no love anymore i mean
37:42i still love him now but sometimes it's it's just not possible to be together
37:51our next guest remembers one of the most famous and prolific bands of the last decade they've taken
37:55a break from the band team up uh with their own duet and they're here to tell us more would
37:58you
37:58please welcome two old mates to the show uh they are shane lynch and keith duffy ladies and
38:09we've got a clip of your brand new single let's have a look
38:24we're all doing solo projects trying to re-establish our identities as individuals
38:42i did release some music the record company were like uh oh that's great thanks very much we'll
38:50have a we'll have a look at that all right well what about you and boys only you doing anything
38:55else
38:55together it was really a case of once the band was over so were you you know
39:04we went from going three countries sometimes in one day to going nowhere and no cars turning up
39:13nobody knocking on the door a free man but actually felt more jailed than ever
39:21because he didn't have to be anywhere he didn't go anywhere i didn't go anywhere for months
39:26i stopped socializing i pretty much hid myself away for me i wasn't sure where i was going
39:36i felt at the time that i was kind of left in the desert
39:41to to to to die a tourist because i didn't know what way to go
39:47i couldn't look after them all i had to pick who i wanted to work with and i picked ron
39:54keating
39:54because i just knew he ticked all the boxes he works hard and i knew he had something special
40:16louis had vision he had songs he had melodies he had ideas i looked up to him i was picking
40:23songs
40:23he was singing them we were having hits it all worked
40:43the juggernaut that was my solo career at the time was so big and moving so fast it was almost
40:49like a next level that i had never witnessed before
40:53one meeting now i'm here with the single hopefully to challenge the number one spot tomorrow
40:58ronan keating and loving each day ronan keating
41:04chart successes the respect of the kudos of people are praising you and all that it's just
41:09overwhelming it's incredible i was having more fun more freedom it's the best move i made i could have
41:32made absolutely
41:34good to see you again you too been a year and a lot's happened in that time plenty yeah solo
41:39career
41:40yeah thank god yeah and uh what about uh boys though you know a lot has gone on i haven't
41:48talked to the
41:48guys in a in a in quite a while so to be really honest i don't think anything's going to
41:52happen you
41:53think you're in the group of split you know i don't i don't i can't see it coming back together
41:57by no i know fault of mine what would well whose fault would it be well you know we all
42:02made a
42:02commitment there's word coming through louis you know the band want to get back together and the
42:09guys are going well are you coming back are we making a record what's going on and me being sheepish
42:16about it and me being childish about it and me being scared i just back away
42:23i just back away from the lads and i back away from the commitment in the band and
42:31i'm chicken what do i do i ignore the guys i ignore them
42:37unfortunately ronan is happy enough without his friends from boyzone and that's something i can't
42:42understand you know i know ronan of boyzone i don't know the ronan of today i really don't
42:48i was probably a little bit envious and lost a friendship fell apart and i kind of felt left
42:54behind ronan was being very successful he was selling a lot of records he was making polo a lot
43:01of money and they weren't going to let that stop you can't blame him for that it wasn't until a
43:07good
43:07year into that break do the realization came oh this is over and we ain't coming back
43:26i got a phone call from ronan telling me that stephen was dead and i said stephen who
43:34what do you mean what do you mean like no no no i'm not our stephen
43:37what do you mean like no no no no no yeah i think that's true that i know i feel
44:07like we'll keep
44:15Transcription by CastingWords
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