How 90s pop groups from S Club 7 to 5ive battled money-grabbing deals, secret breakdowns and body-shaming to reach top
, says: “If you didn’t get No1 it was classed as a failure. When you think back at artists who were dropped when they only made top 20. . . it’s harsh.”She reveals: “When Paul left we did go on for another year but it wasn’t the same.”
Paul wanted to pursue his true musical dreams by forming a heavy metal band called Skua with his old school pals.were often treated like employees, expected to sing the songs and appear on the TV programmes chosen by their management team.While they sold millions of records, the band members claimed they only took home £150,000 annually., who had just been sacked by Pizza Hut when he joined S Club in 1998, did escape the tyranny of the routine.
Producer Simon Ellis recalled having to hunt him down at a nightclub when he was supposed to be recording a new song.“He was out of there by 2am and went back to the club. Great.”The competition to be the next Spice Girls was so intense in the late 1990s that wannabe singers were desperate to get signed.
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