Pete Waterman - THE HITMAN HITS BACK!!! RICK ASTLEY, KYLIE, BANANARAMA & MORE! PART 1

Pete Waterman produced and co-wrote over 200 hit singles in the 1980s. While most critics dismissed the music as worthless, the public, who bought many million records, and Pete Waterman’s bank manager, knew the exact worth of it.  Was the music formulaic?  Yes, but that could be said for much of pop.  Was it tuneful and danceable?  Absolutely.  Did it accurately reflect the ‘dress up & dance’, ‘showing out’, ‘loadsamoney’ spirit of the 80s? Oh yes, indeed!

Britain’s production team Stock, Aitken & Waterman (SAW) used the new technology of the 1980s to make a string of contagious hits for many pop artists including Kylie Minogue (I Should Be So Lucky, Better The Devil You Know), Jason Donovan, Mel & Kim (Showing Out, Respectable) Bananarama (Love In The First Degree, I’m Your Venus) and Rick Astley.  Astley’s warm baritone voice gave SAW rare transatlantic successes with two #1s in America including Never Gonna Give You Up).

Here is the first part of my interview with the man who said he had  “Woolworths EARS”, Pete Waterman.

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