Stock Aitken Waterman

It was back when it was all a little more cloak and dagger and we were supposed to be pretending that we weren't witnessing a kind of a careful assembly line of talented young people.

Stock Aitken and Waterman type thing.

Yeah, we were meant to be like, oh yeah, this group of lovely friends sure do like to sing and dance together.

But no, they were of that great kind of generation of manufactured pop where the music was... high intensity.

Then in September, we get this report.

Bjorn Borg, the tennis champ, turns out to be a fan of Stock Aitken Waterman, and at their celebratory party at Stringfellows last week, he handed over the silver disc for Never Gonna Give You Up to Rick Astley and the lads.

Rick Astley had to sing The Temptations Ain't Too Proud to Beg live at the party just to disprove Damon Rochefort's silly wind-up in The Sun that Luther Vandross was the real singer of his hit.

Yeah.

One week later, Roblox is in its second week in the lower reaches of the disco chart as this mysterious import.

But a week later, James reports, rare groove fans must be feeling very sheepish.

The supposedly bootleg import called Roblox turns out to have been purpose-built for that market by none other than Stock Aitken Waterman, not only as producers, but as the thus far unnamed artists too.

In July, he reveals Roblox has in fact been signed for UK release by breakout all along.

But that really was the problem as far as Farhi was concerned.

Two years earlier, the girls had teamed up with the production team Stock Aitken Waterman.

These were still early days for them.

They'd already had an unlikely smash hit with former goth punks Dead or Alive and the single You Spin Me Round Like a Record, but Mel and Kim and Kylie were yet to come.

He and his main writing partner Hal David were keen to build on their success as writers by establishing their own production company and they were looking for the right singer to interpret their songs and become their muse.

This young gospel singer seemed to them to be perfect for the job.

The partnership between Dionne Warwick and the writing and production team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David became one of the most successful in popular music history.

Over the next two decades, almost 40 singles they recorded together made the charts, with combined sales of more than 12 million copies.

And she put out this album, and it had Locomotion on it, which I thought was okay.

But it had a song called I Should Be So Lucky, which was a Stock Aiken and Waterman production they did together.

Rick Astley and Banana Rama and some other people like that.

I loved it.

Right.

And then it's going to come out in the UK via Pete Waterman, Stock Aiken and Waterman.

He says, I don't like the rap.

Takes the rap off, right? And they have to appear on top of the pops, right? Because it's gone in the charts.

What's the, what's the guy's name?

Was it Stock, Aitken and Waterman?

They produced it

Yeah.