I recently shared with you the story of Italian born celebrity chef Gino D’ Acampo who had spent time in prison for his part of a burglary of popular 80s singer Paul Young’s home.
Gino’s spell inside hasn’t stopped him from being successful.
Very often the ‘turning my life around’ story is very attractive and inspiring to many and can help catapult a person to success.
Today, I want to share two other stories with you which showcase how a dubious and dodgy past has not harmed or hindered the future careers of those involved.
In fact, without these dubious and dodgy moments, they may not have become what they are today.
Both Take That and Boyzone are well respected pop bands who have sold millions of singles and albums around the world.
In the 1990s and 2000s, both bands were adored by teenage girls who would blush and swoon any time their names were mentioned.
As far as bands go, these guys were huge.
They toured the world and have performed in some of the biggest stadiums singing in front of sell-out crowds of tens of thousands of screaming fans.
Today they are now sharp suit wearing middle aged men adored by many middle aged ladies (and men) who have remained fans since they were young teenage heartthrobs.
It is safe to say that they have had incredibly successful careers.
What is more impressive is that they were manufactured bands.
Neither band were a group of friends who had decided to create a band, they were put together by record labels who were looking to make the next ‘big thing’ in pop music.
Very few of them could actually sing. A couple of Take That were picked based on their looks and that they could dance, they couldn’t actually sing.
The first time Boyzone were seen on television was when they appeared briefly on a popular Irish talk show The Late Show in 1993 hosted by Gay Byrne dancing badly to a song which wasn’t theirs.
You have to see the clip, it is hilariously bad. You can see the other guests and the audience laughing at them.
So bad that one person on YouTube said “I saw this at the time and genuinely thought it was supposed to be a comedy piss take of Take That”.
You can see the clip for yourself here:
They were touted as the next big boy band before embarrassingly wriggling and jiving badly to Light My Fire by Club House.
The line up which appeared on the show included one guy who never made it into the later successful version of the band.
Watching that clip, you cannot help but think that they should never have become successful.
But they did.
It was embarrassingly bad and I’m surprised the lads didn’t quit from embarrassment and shame… but believe it or not, it was part of manager Louis Walsh’s master plan.
Louis was pre-warming up the teenage girls of Ireland.
He was building a buzz and a tribe of teenagers who wanted to see and know more about this gang of hunky young men.
He was building interest before there was a finished product to offer.
Take That had a similar start.
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The band members attended auditions after answered adverts looking for young men to create a new boy band.
Take That, one of the biggest bands ever to be loved and adored by women worldwide only happened thanks to their early days of wearing shocking tight lycra shorts and performing in gay night clubs.
Their manager understood the power of the gay scene.
When they adopt a band or singer, they spend money. The pink pound, as it has been called, can propel people into the limelight.
The video to Take That’s first UK single, a ‘hi-energy’ song called Do What You Like, was very homoerotic and clearly targeted the gay market.
You can watch the video for yourself here:
It included plenty of naked chests, leather jackets, tight lycra shorts and silver chains.
The music style known as hi-energy was popular in gay clubs up and down the UK in the 1990s.
This song and video was clearly aimed at the gay club scene as a way to establish a good sized fan base which would help Take That remain in the limelight.
New bands can disappear as fast as they come. Record companies will drop bands at the drop of a hat if there is very little interest in them.
By appealing to the gay scene, it helped Take That establish a fan base and to cement their future.
The Take That in that video is a lot different to the Take That most people remember.
Boyzone’s first television appearance had a similar vibe to Take That’s video, they were dancing to a hi-energy club tune while flashing naked chests which appealed to the young ladies and possibly the gay scene of Ireland.
Those early days for both bands look embarrassingly bad and incredibly tacky, yet despite that, they became huge global successes.
Those early days didn’t harm or hinder their careers, they helped them.
Even if they weren’t calculated stunts designed to build loyal fans as soon as they could, they wouldn’t have harmed their futures because they remain in the past.
They become something to build on and improve on.
What does kill a person’s future prospects of success is the one thing I hinted at earlier… becoming embarrassed about your past, hanging your head in shame and quitting.
And that is the one thing the lads in Boyzone and Take That did not do…
They did not allow embarrassment to stop them moving forward, they did not hang their heads in shame of their dubious and dodgy starts and they did not quit … which is the real lesson here.
Whatever has happened in your past, no matter how bad it was, do not quit… because if you do, you will never taste success.
Kind Regards
John Harrison
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