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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.
19:00And we're all just trying to get there!
19:06Give it up!
19:08Give it up!
19:11Give it up!
19:12Give it up!
19:14Woo!
19:15And I'm by the beginning of the season
19:23That's what we're talking about
19:34It's a very pleasant surprise for everybody when the reaction was so positive.
19:40The fans embraced him. That's what really carried him.
19:44The love they showed him was powerful. It was amazing.
19:49There was nothing but messages of love and support.
19:53You know, the burden of a lifetime was lifted off his shoulders
19:57and he was free to be who he truly was.
20:15Even after he came out, he was still the favourite one
20:18and he was still the one that everyone wanted to marry,
20:21even though they knew he was gay.
20:23You know, there's lots of love.
20:26Everything went well.
20:28The 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
20:37and I hope that I have done that, you know.
20:42It should be your own decision.
20:44And I know because the story got offered, it wasn't our own decision in the beginning.
20:50But the biggest gift we got was freedom.
20:54Freedom is such a beautiful thing, what we all deserve, you know.
20:59And in the end, we were not hiding a horrible secret.
21:03We were hiding love.
21:08Before we perform it, I'd just like to say a big thank you to everybody out there.
21:16For 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.
21:26So thank you very much to all of you out there who brought it once again.
21:31And also a big thank you for making this record our sixth, number one.
21:35This is you, you, you, you, you.
21:39I mean, we were big for a minute and we did all right, you know.
21:46The six months after Theo came out, it was crazy.
21:50It was absolutely crazy.
21:51How are you?
21:52I'm Ro and we're Boyzone.
21:53I'd like to say a big hello to all our fans in Southeast Asia.
21:56We're looking forward to seeing you soon.
21:57Your single would drop in the country that you weren't expecting
21:59and go, holy God, right?
22:00It's just after breaking there.
22:01We've got to get the boys over there.
22:07Coming from where we came from, very humble beginnings,
22:11and all of a sudden being catapulted into this superstardom,
22:15traveling in private jets around the world,
22:17staying in five-star hotels.
22:18We filled in a lifetime of memories in six years.
22:22Once we conquered one country, we went to the next country
22:26and we grew there.
22:28We're going under the tunnel over to the island of Hong Kong.
22:31Right now, we're underneath the water.
22:33I don't remember anybody really looking out for us,
22:37apart from Mark Plunkett.
22:39I was hired to look after them as tour manager.
22:43With the band, day in, day out, you know,
22:4650 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.
22:57I remember one time, they literally shut the airport down.
23:00There were so many girls there.
23:01We just could not move.
23:03We just couldn't get them out of the airport for about half an hour.
23:05It was crazy.
23:07The engine was in full flow.
23:11Trips out to Southeast Asia and Australia,
23:14South America and Europe.
23:17It became nuts just the amount of traveling we did.
23:20You could see everyone was getting tired.
23:23The pressures of stardom, the pressures of touring,
23:26family pressures do start to take its toll.
23:29At some point, something goes bang.
23:3299 was probably the too big for our boots tour.
23:35We'd lost the run of ourselves at this stage.
23:37This is it.
23:38We couldn't have got any bigger.
23:41As it got bigger, it became harder to keep them happy
23:45because they wanted more and they wanted more time off.
23:50At The Peak is a grueling time, grueling time.
23:53There's no mercy whatsoever.
23:56We were all physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted.
23:59We hadn't more than three weeks off in six years.
24:02We were tired.
24:04We were tired.
24:05We were broken.
24:08Very excited about the release, aren't we, lads?
24:10Yeah.
24:11See?
24:11Yay!
24:12Show them how excited.
24:13Yay!
24:16We had spent too much time together
24:18and with that comes difficulties.
24:22You know, relationship difficulties between us.
24:26You know, and maybe that was the start of
24:29Cracks.
24:37What does Nick rhyme with?
24:39Pretty.
24:40Ah, that wasn't nice, Keith.
24:42What does Keith rhyme with?
24:44Dickhead.
24:48It's a difficult job being a manager.
24:50They all had egos and they all wanted to be more famous than they were.
24:55Ronan was the one I could depend on.
24:57I knew if I needed something done
24:59or if there was a gig somewhere that they didn't want to do,
25:03I knew he would talk them into doing 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,
25:16to contact everybody, to make sure that the flights were booked,
25:20the taxis were booked, whatever it took.
25:22He was managing the group kind of with me.
25:25You know, he was making a lot of decisions.
25:27I was talking to him almost daily on the phone about everything.
25:31There was nothing I didn't talk to him about.
25:37But I knew it wasn't going to last forever, boys aren't.
25:40I knew the little girls that loved them were all grown up
25:43and they were going to find somebody else.
25:54I remember we were touring Southeast Asia.
25:58I used to get a bit homesick.
25:59We all did.
26:00And if you had too much to drink, you might get a bit teary-eyed
26:02and ring home and reminisce and have a little cry on the phone
26:05and, you know, your mum and dad would pick you up and put you back.
26:08And I was talking to my dad and my dad was always brutally honest
26:11and he said,
26:12I think your days are pretty much numbered, son.
26:14You better enjoy what you're doing.
26:16And I said, how do you mean, dad?
26:17He said, well, while you guys are over there,
26:19Louis Walsh is all over the papers,
26:21putting auditions together for a new boy band.
26:23At the time they were called I.O.U.
26:26And then they changed their name to Westside
26:28and then ultimately to Westlife.
26:32I thought, how will I promote Westlife?
26:36And I said, we should get Ronan involved.
26:40We thought that's going to help with Boyzone fans.
26:43Louis brought Ronan in as 50% manager of Westlife
26:46while Boyzone was still together.
26:49You may have heard the band I'm in, it's Boyzone.
26:51I've had so much crack being in a band
26:52that I've decided to manage my own band with Louis Walsh.
26:55So here they are.
26:57How you doing? I'm Brian.
26:59I'm Nicky.
27:00Hello, I'm Shane.
27:01Do you think the boys felt threatened
27:03by Westlife coming in and your attention to them?
27:05I think probably boys were a bit threatened
27:09when they heard Westlife sing and all that, yeah.
27:11But that's, that's kind of natural.
27:30Westlife came as our support act on our arena tour.
27:34Whenever you have a support act,
27:35your agent will secure what's called a buy-on,
27:38which is a significant amount of money for us,
27:41for the band, from the record company of the support act.
27:44You get them on your stage.
27:45But Westlife never paid on.
27:47They get on for free,
27:48which was a significant amount of money lost.
27:51And that was down to the fact
27:53that they were managed by Louis and Ronan.
27:55People were asking me to do things
27:59and some of the others weren't getting asked.
28:02And it definitely created a little bit of animosity.
28:04You could feel that.
28:06Welcome back to the last MTV Europe Music Awards
28:08of the millennium,
28:10where you can't get tickets for love, no money.
28:12Believe me, I was offered both on the way in.
28:14Anyway, on with the show
28:15and here to present the award for best hip-hop.
28:17I was pushing him for, like, to host Eurovision,
28:20to do MTV Awards, to do anything that was going on TV.
28:23I was always pushing him.
28:25I knew he wouldn't let me down
28:26and I knew he would do a good job.
28:29Ladies and gentlemen,
28:30please welcome the lead singer of Boy Zone, Ronan Keating.
28:34All right?
28:35How are you?
28:36I'm fine, how are you?
28:37Good, thanks.
28:38Very good.
28:39I had learned through the years how to read Ronan.
28:43He had a lot of big ideas.
28:45He always talked big.
28:48You could see this guy was breaking away.
28:50He was making new tracks.
28:53I was just surprised that nobody else could see that.
28:58Yes, you know, I maximized an opportunity.
29:02I can get rid of these if you want.
29:04I wasn't embarrassed or feel guilty,
29:06you know, because I was the one who was going out
29:08doing all the work.
29:09So I worked hard and it paid off.
29:24Nothing at all was Ronan's first solo single.
29:27Notting Hill was massive.
29:29No matter who would sing it,
29:31that was going to be a hit.
29:32Add Ronan to the mix,
29:33it's going to be a massive hit.
29:34The smile on your face lets me know that you need me.
29:40There's a truth in your eyes
29:42saying you'll never leave me.
29:46The touch of you.
29:47It's called When You Say Nothing At All.
29:48They ask me would I do it and I jump to the opportunity.
29:50I think it's a fantastic opportunity for me
29:53because it's my first solo record.
29:55Fingers crossed it goes well.
29:57You say it best when you say nothing at all.
30:02I mean, it was incredible.
30:05It was an incredible moment.
30:06It was such a huge, massive record globally.
30:11It was just a catapult to go everywhere.
30:13We promoted that song all over the world.
30:16I got a taste for that on my own.
30:19It's euphoric, that feeling that you've had that success
30:22on your own.
30:24I think that's when, realistically,
30:26Polidore looked at that and thought,
30:28hang on a second, they saw more future in Ronan
30:31than they did in Boyzor.
30:32I can never explain what I hear
30:38when you don't say a thing.
30:42He's on a bit of a solo buzz at the moment, you know?
30:45He's trying to get a bit of self-praise.
30:47There's a sound trip going on there.
30:48Don't mind that.
30:49He'll land soon.
30:50He'll land soon.
30:51I think that was the first look at,
30:56ooh, how is this going to work out?
31:11I think we were in, I think it was a hard rock cafe.
31:15And we all ended up in a bathroom.
31:17And when we all ended up in a bathroom together
31:19it was because we were being overcrowded
31:20or we were being overcome by fans or people
31:23and we'd go in there to get away, to have a breather.
31:26And we'd all look in the mirror
31:28and headbang like we're in a rock band.
31:30It was just something that we did
31:31and we'd laugh and scream
31:32and I suppose release some of the energy
31:35of the realisation of our success.
31:38It was like, you know?
31:40And it was that moment when Ronan had voiced
31:42the idea of possibly taking from Christmas off for a year.
31:48Ronan had simply said, we're going to take a break.
31:51I was shocked.
31:52But that sounded okay to me.
31:54I needed a break.
31:56For me, it was music to my ears
31:59because I had had enough.
32:02I just wanted out, you know?
32:04I think it was more of a shock to me than anybody else.
32:07I do remember feeling, you know, I'm loving this.
32:10This is great.
32:11This is, you know, I'm 26 years of age.
32:12I'm a pop star traveling around the world, you know?
32:16I'm providing a great future for myself and my family.
32:19I didn't, I didn't want to break up.
32:22Nobody wanted to break up,
32:24but everybody wanted a break.
32:26It was, it's liberating.
32:29Scary, fine, but it was liberating.
32:31Everyone was ready for a break
32:32just because they were so tired.
32:34But then I think, you know,
32:36certain people knew exactly what they were going to do.
32:39Others weren't quite as sure.
32:40So I guess they'd be a bit more tentative,
32:43a bit more concerned.
32:44We decided that we will fulfill our obligations
32:47in our diary until the end of that year.
32:51We did a whole millennium tour
32:53so there were shows across the UK and Europe.
32:56There were massive, those shows.
32:58You know something.
32:59Yeah!
33:00Woo-hoo!
33:01Woo-hoo!
33:01Dublin!
33:04Good evening.
33:06Welcome to the last night of the Boys Down Tour.
33:09At the end of the tour,
33:10we played back home in the point that boat.
33:12Let's try and make a one to remember.
33:15And there was nine nights in a row
33:17and they put a plaque on the wall outside the venue
33:21commemorating our success.
33:22And there was a plaque beside us
33:23that would belong to U2
33:25who had done seven or eight nights
33:26and we'd beaten their rock hard.
33:39That probably was the pinnacle of our career.
33:43Why would I want to give that up?
33:58Thank you so much for the last six years.
34:00It has been unbelievable.
34:02Thank you so much.
34:05But we're not going anywhere.
34:07We're not going anywhere.
34:10We've all got some stuff to do on our own for a while
34:12but believe me, Boys Down is stronger
34:15than it's ever been before.
34:19Good luck, God bless you.
34:30I was just looking forward to a break from it all
34:33and to get home and spend time with my daughter more.
34:37What's the best bit, Stephen, for you?
34:39It was all the best bit.
34:40It's kind of the best bit for her.
34:42It's just all great.
34:44I don't think I could ever give up the business.
34:46I love it so much.
34:47The same with the rest of the guys.
34:49Keep the best part.
34:51How are you?
34:52See you all right?
34:53Yes, happy new year.
34:55I don't know.
34:56I'm still on a bit of a hoi to be honest.
34:57I think tomorrow we'll tell all
34:59and then cry my eyes in.
35:04Thanks everyone.
35:06You know, it was tough.
35:07It was tough leaving the band.
35:09There was a sense of guilt.
35:12But excitement for me as well.
35:18I had zero problem with him actually going on to do his own album.
35:22I think there was probably a fear that he would never come back.
35:27And if that happens, what am I going to do with my life?
35:35There was only one of the model
35:37Now you might recognize his next group.
35:39He's usually got other boys with him.
35:41But he's now on his own.
35:42Yes, of course, is the wonderful Steven Gaitley!
35:58the boys and guys taking a break and steven 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 you know his
36:22own
36:22songs and writing his own songs he was he was absolutely delighted with it i'm just out doing my
36:29own album hoping for the best hoping that's going to be a success um i've worked very hard on this
36:35album um i spent a lot of time on it spent a lot of talk and i wrote most of
36:39the songs myself and
36:40been heavily involved after 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 steven and you saw his mood change
37:14always described steven as a little angel
37:19but the angel wasn't happy anymore and it was just uh too too difficult to be together
37:27so we broke up
37:30i was heartbroken
37:33and 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 please
37:58welcome two old mates to the show uh they are shane lynch and keith duffy ladies and gentlemen
38:05good morning top of the morning to you
38:08we have got a clip of your brand new single let's have a look
38:23we're all doing solo projects trying to re-establish our identities as individuals
38:42i did release some music
38:45the record company were like uh oh that's great thanks very much we'll have a we'll have a look at
38:51that all right well what about you and boys are you doing anything else together it was really a
38:57case of once the band was over so were you you know we went from going three countries sometimes in
39:08one day
39:10to going nowhere and no cars turning up nobody knocking on the door a free man
39:17but actually felt more jailed than ever because he didn't have to be anywhere he didn't go anywhere
39:23i didn't go anywhere for months i stopped socializing i pretty much hid myself away
39:33for me i wasn't sure where i was going i felt at the time that i was kind of left
39:39in 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
39:53and i pick runner keating because i just knew he ticked all the boxes he works hard and i knew
39:58he had
40:08something special
40:16louis had vision he had songs he had melodies he had ideas i looked up to him
40:21i was picking songs he was singing them we were having hits it all worked
40:43the juggernaut that was my solo career at the time
40:46was so big and moving so fast it was almost like 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
40:58rona 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 overwhelming
41:10it's incredible
41:18i was having more fun more freedom it's the best move i made i could have made absolutely
41:34good to see you again you too been a year indeed and a lot's happening that time plenty yeah solo
41:39career yeah thank god yeah and uh what about uh boys though you know a lot has gone on i
41:47haven't
41:48talked to the guys in a in a in quite a while so to be really honest i don't think
41:52anything's gonna
41:52happen you think with the band you and the group have split that you know i don't i don't i
41:56can't
41:56see it coming back together by no by no fault of mine what would well whose fault would it be
42:00well
42:01you know we all made a commitment there's word coming through louis you know the band want to get
42:08back together and the guys are going are you coming back are we making a record what's going on and
42:15me being sheepish about it and me being childish about it and me being
42:19scared i just back away i just back away from the lads and i back away from the commitment in
42:27the band
42:29and
42:31i'm chicken ship what do i do i ignore the guys i ignore them
42:37unfortunately ron is happy enough without his friends from boys on and that's something i can't
42:42understand you know i know ronan of boys on yeah 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 behind
42:56ronan was being very successful he was selling a lot of records he was making paulo a lot of money
43:01and they weren't going to let that stop you can't blame him for that
43:05it wasn't until a good year into that break do the realization came oh this is over and we ain't
43:15coming
43:25back
43:25i got a phone call from ronan telling me that stephen was dead
43:32and i i said stephen who what do you mean like no no no not our stephen
43:37is
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