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The Beautiful South were a British pop group formed in 1989, from the ashes of Hull, England group The Housemartins. The band was put together by lead singer, Paul Heaton, and drummer, Dave Hemingway. They were joined by sean welch (Bass), Dave Stead (Drums) and Dave Rotheray (Guitar). Rotheray also co-writes the songs with Heaton.
In The Beautiful South, Heaton shared the lead singer’s role with Hemingway and female singer Briana Corrigan to create a trio of lead vocalists. This set-up helped to characterise the bittersweet kitchen sink dramas played out in Heaton’s often-barbed songs.
The band’s music might sound like bubbly, catchy, lightweight pop but Heaton’s sour, savage and amusing worldview on everything and anything (alcoholism, religion, sex, politics and, mostly, the down side of relationships) is always lurking beneath the surface of the quirky melodies. The tastes and smells of the local pub are never far away either, with the band gaining a reputation for boozing. The band’s first album was Welcome To The Beautiful South (1989) and spawned the hits
Song For Whoever and You Keep It All In. The release of 1990’s Choke album saw the band claim its only Number 1 hit to date, A Little Time. 0898 followed in 1992, with hits including Old Red Eyes Is Back.
In 1994, after Corrigan quit the band when she saw Paul’s lyrics for the forthcoming album Miaow, St Helens supermarket shelf-stacker, Jacqui Abbott, was brought on board to fill in. Heaton had heard her sing at an after show party in St Helens and remembered her vocal talents.
In The Beautiful South, Heaton shared the lead singer’s role with Hemingway and female singer Briana Corrigan to create a trio of lead vocalists. This set-up helped to characterise the bittersweet kitchen sink dramas played out in Heaton’s often-barbed songs.
The band’s music might sound like bubbly, catchy, lightweight pop but Heaton’s sour, savage and amusing worldview on everything and anything (alcoholism, religion, sex, politics and, mostly, the down side of relationships) is always lurking beneath the surface of the quirky melodies. The tastes and smells of the local pub are never far away either, with the band gaining a reputation for boozing. The band’s first album was Welcome To The Beautiful South (1989) and spawned the hits
Song For Whoever and You Keep It All In. The release of 1990’s Choke album saw the band claim its only Number 1 hit to date, A Little Time. 0898 followed in 1992, with hits including Old Red Eyes Is Back.In 1994, after Corrigan quit the band when she saw Paul’s lyrics for the forthcoming album Miaow, St Helens supermarket shelf-stacker, Jacqui Abbott, was brought on board to fill in. Heaton had heard her sing at an after show party in St Helens and remembered her vocal talents.
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Don't Marry Her
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Song For Whoever
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Perfect 10
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You Keep It All In
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Old Red Eyes Is Back
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Everybody's Talkin'
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I'll Sail This Ship Alone
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One Last Love Song
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Good As Gold (Stupid As Mud)
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Prettiest Eyes
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Rotterdam
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Blackbird On The Wire
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We Are Each Other
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Shoutbox
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ohh1972 wrote:
So much fun
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bsimpson1972 wrote:
I always loved them and will always love them for their sick, twisted sense of humor! There's hardly any in-between with The Beautiful South: You love 'em or you hate 'em.... :)
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sibss wrote:
lalalallala BEAUTIFUL SOUTH, you are beautiful.
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sibss wrote:
don't marry her fuck me!!! [2]
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varecza wrote:
don't marry her fuck me!!!
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sibss wrote:
a little time shouldn't be the top played song.
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sibss wrote:
:D :D
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Livishort wrote:
this song never dates
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Vino-G wrote:
Paul Heaton is an absolute pop genius.
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imbissdoener23 wrote:
great stuff! genius lyrics!
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xnrat wrote:
I love her body, especially the lies.
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emmerlie wrote:
Take a good look at these crows feet, sitting on the prettiest eyes! O.O
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TiBoots wrote:
Great band!
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german_in_la wrote:
You Keep It All In is brilliant.
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massivem22 wrote:
rotterdam is my all time best childhood song
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Petra559 wrote:
ein sehr schönes Lied zum Träumen und Mitsingen The Beatiful South sind sehr schön zu hören wunderschöne Stimmen haben diese Künstler
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MihoNYuka wrote:
In seventh grade (1998?) in my speech class, we were suppose to memorize a poem (had to be fairly lengthy) and recite it to the whole class. Being the procrastinator that I was, I didn't bother starting until the night before. I decided I would recite the lyrics to "I'll Sail This Ship Alone" Those lyrics were already stuck in my head--and I just faked it and used it as a poem. Isn't that what songs are really? I love (and always will) The Beautiful South.
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belladonnaboy wrote:
there is gonna be new material but mainly old material but with Heaton and Rotheray out of the picture it's going to be strange without them because they were the composers also the only original 2 left are Dave Hemmingway and Stead
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GraemeG296 wrote:
@ belladonnaboy: Yup! Workmate mentioned that yesterday but didn't kn ow specifics. Without Heaton, it defo won't be the same, but if there is any new material, it might not be too bad. I'm going on the fact that Hammy's solo album was pretty good.
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belladonnaboy wrote:
it's not a specific it's saying this could be anywhere rotterdam is probably just the one that goes best btw the beautiful south have reformed without Paul Heaton
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