Stephen Gately: Gately and the Glory Days of Boy Bands
Stephen Gately: Gately and the Glory Days of Boy Bands
(March 17, 1976 – October 10, 2009)
by Joy Anne Icayan
Stephen Gately is dead. For the kids of this generation, the name means nothing, but for us growing up in the nineties, the era of boy bands could have lasted forever. Stephen Gately was famous being one half of Boyzone's voice, the other half belonging to Ronan Keating, the rest of the band functioning as synchronized echoes and backdrop for the band's music videos. Gately came out and broke the hearts of many girls. He however, stood by his decision to go public, using the band's own theme song No Matter What to fuel his bravery: No matter what they tell us / no matter what they say. In the same year, a Filipino trashy film about a lone man in a mountain tribe who needed to impregnate pretty and half naked tribeswomen used the song for a sex scene. It was proof that adults didn't think much of boy band music.
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Read the full story at UnRatedMagazine.com
(March 17, 1976 – October 10, 2009)
by Joy Anne Icayan
Stephen Gately is dead. For the kids of this generation, the name means nothing, but for us growing up in the nineties, the era of boy bands could have lasted forever. Stephen Gately was famous being one half of Boyzone's voice, the other half belonging to Ronan Keating, the rest of the band functioning as synchronized echoes and backdrop for the band's music videos. Gately came out and broke the hearts of many girls. He however, stood by his decision to go public, using the band's own theme song No Matter What to fuel his bravery: No matter what they tell us / no matter what they say. In the same year, a Filipino trashy film about a lone man in a mountain tribe who needed to impregnate pretty and half naked tribeswomen used the song for a sex scene. It was proof that adults didn't think much of boy band music.
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Read the full story at UnRatedMagazine.com
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