Posted November 14, 200717 yr Anyone remember A1? What did you think about them? I used to love them :lol: I seriously thought I was going to marry Ben :lol: I saw them a few times at Britannia Stadium for Signal One's Live In The City, and I saw them in Birmingham once for a educational music day. I stood at the main stage for 5 hours waiting for them, it was amazing being front row cuz I loved them so much :wub: :lol: Here's some info from wikipedia: The group's publicity focused on the fact that a1 wrote many of their own songs, and that three of the four play musical instruments. Read plays the piano and drum, Adams the piano, oboe and violin and Ingebrigtsen the piano and guitar. After an initial period during which they achieved success in the UK, in the autumn of 2000, two of their singles went to number-one in the chart within nine weeks: "Take On Me" and "Same Old Brand New You". The former was a cover of A-ha's 1985 single, which itself only reached #2 in the UK that year. a1 also won the "Smash Hits" award for "Best Video" for "Take on Me". Adams also won "most fanciable male" the year after. In 2001 the band toured Asia, where they were well-received. The music video for their single "No More" was filmed in Singapore. During the Indonesian leg of their tour in the Taman Anggrek Mall, four teenage girls were killed in a stampede. Their third album, Make It Good, featured a sound closer to traditional rock music, but was to be their last studio project. On October 8, 2002, Paul Marazzi left the band citing personal reasons, and the group subsequently split. Christian confirmed in an interview on a norwegian radio that Paul was in fact using drugs and seeing conspiracies againt him in everyone around him. They released a Best Of album in January 2004, featuring their singles, two unreleased studio recordings and previously unreleased concert recordings. Ben Adams released the solo single, "Sorry", which reached #18 in the UK in April 2005. Christian has since become popular back in his home country of Norway, while Mark still writes songs for other artists. Caught In The Middle FfuZhkftfOA Same Old Brand New You uXfBqpkRL9U High And Dry This was one of my favs and i still think its a nice song :wub: 6cqJ4q7FsBo Summertime Of Our Lives cZpnJlyFBgI
November 14, 200717 yr omg its like a 90's revival in here. thank god for the spice girls. B*Witched next?
November 15, 200717 yr Aww yeah, I quite liked these guys! They had some good songs, can't remember the names of them now though... xXx
November 15, 200717 yr These are still a guilty pleasure of mine :lol: I have 'Caught In The Middle', 'Take On Me', 'Like A Rose' and 'Be The First To Believe' on my MP3 :wub: 'Take On Me' is without a doubt one of my favourite nineties songs (even though it's a cover, but shush.)
November 15, 200717 yr I've got their albums, and a singed copy of 'A List' when I seen them in York. Loved like a rose think that was favourite track, but loved CITM even more. Edited November 15, 200717 yr by Daylight Dancer
November 15, 200717 yr Author Aww yeah, I quite liked these guys! They had some good songs, can't remember the names of them now though... xXx Paul-Mark-Ben-Christian :cheer: http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e15/pink_princess01/new%20album/163562.jpg
November 16, 200717 yr they were good. Westlife looked better though that's why they stayed. Are they coming back?
November 16, 200717 yr Weren't they the ones that slaughtered covered Take On Me? Loved Caught In The Middle, though - I remember playing that one when I was doing student radio.
November 16, 200717 yr These are still a guilty pleasure of mine :lol: I have 'Caught In The Middle', 'Take On Me', 'Like A Rose' and 'Be The First To Believe' on my MP3 :wub: 'Take On Me' is without a doubt one of my favourite nineties songs (even though it's a cover, but shush.) Take On Me is from 2000 :P
November 16, 200717 yr I loved Same Old Brand New You! Their last few singles were all really good. I had a bit of a soft spot for Mark too. :P
November 17, 200717 yr Yay well done who started this A1 Post! I was a HUGE fan - I saw them live twice - and they were number 1 on my birthday! I had a HUGE crush on Mark and have often seen him around with his girlfriend grr lol My fave song of theres is Ready or Not and Same Old Brand New You - amazing songs I liked the first 2 albums better than the 3rd :)
November 17, 200717 yr I liked them a lot, they were fun ha ha. I also remember when Ben released Sorry etc, I met him a couple of times around then and for some controversy is he with Craig David like secretly?! :o
November 17, 200717 yr westlife were better to stay that longer This is about A1 and not about your c**p favourites! Stop it!
November 17, 200717 yr that's the truth Once again: this is a thread about A1! Can a mod please delete these pointless posts about Westlife?
November 20, 200717 yr Same Old Brand New You is from the 00s... well it as still the 90s where the music was concerned :lol:
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