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Pete Waterman

January 2024

  • Music magnet Pete Waterman is also a model railway enthusiast.

    Time to get on board with model railways

    Letters: Colin Boocock has noticed more young people taking an interest in the hobby, while Prof Keith Hayward is jealous of Rod Stewart’s layout

November 2023

  • I Should Be So Lucky, The Musical.

    I Should Be So Lucky, The Musical review – missing the Hit Factory

    Show built around Stock Aitken Waterman’s songs flies so long as the pop classics are playing

August 2023

  • ‘It’s a middle finger up to the establishment’ … sisters Mel (left) and Kim Appleby in 1987.

    How we made
    ‘It was our response to glamour photos of Mel resurfacing’: how we made Mel & Kim’s Respectable

    ‘Our record company thought we’d be embarrassed by the pictures appearing in the tabloids. But we were streetwise girls. We had dealt with far worse than that’

July 2023

  • Kylie Minogue.

    Kylie Minogue to appear digitally in new Stock Aitken Waterman musical

    The I Should Be So Lucky singer will play a ‘specially created character’ in the touring show which will feature a string of pop hits by the songwriting trio

March 2023

  • Billie Piper, B*Witched. Pete Waterman, Simon Cowell, the Spice Girls

    ‘There were fist-fights down at CD:UK’ – 90s pop remembered by those who lived through it

    Conflict between bands, conflict within bands, booze, breakdowns and awards-show agony: in these extracts from oral history Reach for the Stars, Five, Steps, Pete Waterman and more spill about the dark side of the decade

October 2022

  • Herbie Mensah on his stall at Portobello Market.

    A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: ‘I started to experiment upcycling old clothes – and they sold’

    Herbie Mensah was a shopaholic soul boy who modelled for Vivienne Westwood and made a single with Pete Waterman. After 20 years working in social care, he has returned to his first love with a stall at Portobello Market

February 2021

  • Steps, from left, Faye Tozer, Claire Richards, Ian 'H' Watkins, Lisa Scott-Lee and Lee Latchford-Evans in 1998

    How we made
    Steps on how they made 5,6,7,8 – 'We spent years trying not to perform it!'

    ‘We had giant models made of our heads and got dancers to do it looking like us’

March 2020

  • Rick Astley

    How we made
    Rick Astley: how we made Never Gonna Give You Up

    ‘One day I was making the tea for Bananarama. The next I was at No 1’

March 2017

  • Stock, Aitken and Waterman … Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman at their peak in 1988.

    Music blog
    'I crawled on my knees to Kylie' – the inside story of Stock, Aitken and Waterman

    To mark the publication of a pictorial history of the songwriters Mike Stock talks about the ‘Hit Factory’ years

September 2016

  • Abba in 1977: Benny Andersson, Frida Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog and Björn Ulvaeus.

    Why Abba’s Dancing Queen is the best pop song ever

    Since its 1976 release, Abba’s ‘absolute best song’ (according to Frida Lyngstad) has won over everyone from punks to royalty and almost caused a riot in New York. So how has the song’s low-lit Friday night managed to last for ever?

July 2015

  • Michael Grade interviews Pete Waterman at the Pete Waterman: A Life In Song concert at the Royal Festival Hall

    Pete Waterman: A Life in Song review - hit songs, with no stars to sing them

    A retrospective full of amusing, if lengthy, anecdotes from the Stock, Aitken and Waterman hitmaker, but lacking recognisable singers for the live performances

October 2014

  • Alvin Stardust in 1981.

    Alvin Stardust obituary

    Glam rock singer who found life beyond the 1970s as a television presenter and actor

November 2013

  • Brian Dougans aka Humanoid

    Stakker Humanoid: how the Future Sound of London won hearts and minds

    When, 25 years ago, Bruno Brookes and Pete Waterman championed Stakker Humanoid, it became the first acid house record to break into the mainstream. So what drew these titans of pop to make Humanoid a hit?

December 2012

  • The Hit Factory Live Christmas Cracker concert

    Cheers and groans as Kylie and Jason put in a shift at reopened Hit Factory

    Hit Factory Live Christmas Cracker at 02 Arena, London

July 2012

  • Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan

    I should be so muddy: Kylie and Jason Hyde Park reunion concert cancelled

  • Kylie Minogue and Pat Sharp montage

    Various Artists: Pete Waterman Presents The Hit Factory – review

March 2012

  • Acceptable in the 80s … Stock, Aitken and Waterman act Bananarama in 1983.

    Steps and Bananarama to play gig in honour of Stock, Aitken and Waterman

    One-off July concert in Hyde Park, London, also set to feature SAW acts Rick Astley and Jason Donovan

June 2011

  • Pete Waterman and Michaela Strachan

    A history of dance music
    The Hitman and Her

  • Kylie Minogue

    A history of pop music
    Kylie gets lucky

February 2011

  • Nicky Campbell

    Rewind radio: Nicky Campbell; The Truth About the Roma; The Call; Song Stories: Without You – review

    Halle Berry's assertion that her daughter is black brought the best out of Nicky Campbell – and his callers, writes Miranda Sawyer
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