WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Upside Down – Talk About Pop Music

Did Upside Down change your thoughts or have been you not apprehensive in the event that they go away now?

Upside Down have been a manufactured British boy band of the 1990’s. Shaped by impartial label World Information, and having auditioned some 8,000 candidates, they settled on early 20 somethings Jamie Browne, Giles Kristian, Chris Leng and Richard Micallef. Their debut single was written by fellow boy band Dangerous Boys Inc., who had loved chart success throughout 1994. The tune, “Change Your Thoughts”, peaked at No.11 in early 1996 and would turn out to be the primary of three consecuitive UK high twenty hits that 12 months, maybe due to a BBC documentary, Inside Story, which adopted how a boy band was put collectively.

Upside Down consolidated this with “Each Time I Fall In Love” (No.18) and “By no means Discovered A Love Like This Earlier than” (No.19) earlier than closing the 12 months out with a canopy of Chicago’s 1976 primary hit “If You Depart Me Now”, which Upside Down took to No.27, giving them 4 straight high 40 hits. Nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient for World Information and the label went bankrupt the next 12 months. The boys re-signed to Blue Cherry Information underneath a brand new title, Orange Orange, and launched “Lovely Day” in 1997. However a scarcity of selling and promotion noticed the only flop and the could be fab 4 known as it a day.

Giles Kristian has since turn out to be a famous writer of historic fiction creating the Raven and Rise Of Sigurd collection of novels in addition to two books (thus far) on the Camelot legend. He returned, briefly, to music in 2001 when he launched the only “I Simply Wanna Know”. Jamie Browne dropped out of music and have become a profitable artist, Chris Leng additionally left the music business and have become an IT specialist whereas Richard Micallef is the one one of many group to stay and continues to work as a songwriter and producer.