Wet Wet Wet
Wet Wet Wet is a Scottish pop band. It was founded in 1982 in Clydebank, near Glasgow. The name comes from a song by the British band Scritti Politti. In the 1980s and 1990s, they had their biggest successes. After a brief separation in 1999, she found in 2004 together again.
Members
- Marti Pellow ( born March 23, 1965 Clydebank, Scotland; actually Mark McLachlan )
- Tommy Cunningham ( born June 22, 1964 Drumchapel, Glasgow, Scotland)
- Graeme Clark ( born April 15, 1965 Glasgow, Scotland)
- Neil Mitchell ( born June 8, 1965 Helensburgh, Scotland )
- Graeme Duffin ( born February 28, 1956)
Band History
The band was founded in 1982 under the name Vortex Motion and played mainly Clash cover songs in bars. But in the same year it changed its name to Wet Wet Wet. The name comes from a line of the song Gettin ', Havin ' and Holdin ' Scritti Politti the band.
Wet Wet Wet were able to score their first hit in 1987. The single Wishing I was Lucky reached # 6 on the British charts. In the same year, the band released their first album Popped in Souled Out, which made it to No. 1 on the British charts. More singles were released from the album, including Sweet Little Mystery, Temptation and Angel Eyes.
With a cover version of the Beatles classic With a Little Help From My Friends, which was recorded for charity, managed Wet Wet Wet for the first time with a single to # 1 on the charts.
1989 appeared the second album of the band Holding Back the River, from which the single Sweet Surrender comes. On September 10, 1989, she gave before 75,000 fans a free concert in Glasgow Green, a park in the east of Glasgow. They wanted to thank the home fans for their support and those who might otherwise could not afford to allow to see them play.
The third album High on the Happy Side appeared in 1992. Sure her second number - one hit Goodnight Girl was included. With this single, the band held four weeks the top position.
Her biggest success was Wet Wet Wet land in 1994. For the soundtrack to the British film Four Weddings and a Funeral, they recorded a cover version of Love Is All Around, which was originally written by the Troggs. This single was the band in the summer of 1994 for 15 weeks at No. 1 on the British charts, as long as until then only two other singles in the history of the British singles chart.
Cunningham left the band in 1997, Pellow 1999. Latter then began a solo career.
In early 2004 gave Wet Wet Wet at a press conference their reunion known end of the year they went on a successful tour of the UK and released the single All I Want and a Greatest Hits album. On the Special Edition of Greatest Hits can be found with Walking on Water, a new song. 2005 the band had more live performances, including at Live 8 in Edinburgh. New Year's Eve 2006 Wet Wet Wet occurred in the Aberdeen Hogmanay Celebrations, a free concert by the city of Aberdeen, to thrilling the crowd who had come to the Castle Gate despite the cold, wind gusts and a high probability of rain. The new album called Timeless, on which the band worked since 2005, was released on 12 November 2007 on her own newly founded label Dry Records. In December 2007, the band was on tour in the UK.
Discography
- Popped In Souled Out ( 1987)
- The Memphis Sessions (1988 )
- Holding Back the River ( 1989)
- Live (1990 )
- High on the Happy Side ( 1992)
- Cloak & Dagger (as Maggie Pie & The Impostors ) ( 1992)
- End of Part One - Their Greatest Hits - (1993 /94)
- Picture This (1995 )
- 10 (1997)
- The Greatest Hits (2004)
- Live recordings of concerts (2004/2005)
- Timeless ( 2007)
- Best of WET WET WET (2008)