March 31, 200916 yr Author That makes for nice reading. He really does earn the respect of these people once they work with him. I think his enthusiasm is infectious :D Yes love how we often see him bounding around like an excited puppy. :wub: On another note that look he is giving in your siggy is stirring up other emotions. :naughty:
March 31, 200916 yr More respect & admiratin for Will from fellow musicians. From the digital booklet from the What About Me Dvd. Thanks to Carol on Devoted. Thanks TT that makes for great reading
April 3, 200916 yr What d'you make of this http://newmusicreviews.net/will-young-i-wont-give-up/ He's posted a response on Devoted......I'll put it up for those who don't visit Hello all, it's Willis, I run newmusicreviews.net I've been getting a lot of e-mails from Will Young fans asking questions about my review, so I'll explain it to the masses (although I love the e-mails) First off, I live in the U.S., and to honest before I heard this track I had never heard of him (sorry). I had no idea he won the original X-Factor(?) Until Leona Lewis blew up over here our country really hadn't been exposed to your "idol's". I get promo's once a week from a company based in the U.S. called Radio Express. The single "Will Young - I Won't Give Up" was featured on this weeks disc. The disc is called RadioPlay Pop Express #814. Basically this promo service is for radio stations only. These discs are sent to over 5000 radio stations in 140 countries on a weekly basis. This service is a way for radio stations to find out about new music before the masses and give exposure to up and coming artists. The service is pretty dead on, the bulk of the tracks they release do well on the radio, at least in the U.S. I can't confirm that this will be his next single, or his first single to hit the U.S. All I can tell you is that his track is in a lot of radio exec's hands all over the world, it's up to them to play it. Let me know if you guys have any other ?'s Keep Bangin, Willis willis@williswho.com Here is the track listing for the CD 01-jim_jones_and_ron_browz_feat._juelz_santana-pop_champagne.mp3 02-sophia_fresh_feat._kanye_west-what_it_is.mp3 03-john_legend-everybody_knows.mp3 04-jazmine_sullivan-lions_tigers_and_bears.mp3 05-sean_kingston_feat._lil_wayne-im_at_war.mp3 06-will_young-i_wont_give_up.mp3 07-taylor_swift-love_story-(jason_nevins_remix).mp3 08-britney_spears-if_u_seek_amy.mp3 09-nessa_hudgens-sneakernight.mp3 10-pink-please_dont_leave_me.mp3 11-white_lies-to_lose_my_life.mp3 12-the_view-shock_horror-(radio_edit).mp3 13-the_killers-spaceman-(album_version).mp3 14-papa_roach-lifeline.mp3 15-new_found_glory-listen_to_your_friends.mp3 16-3_doors_down-citizen-soldier.mp3 17-bruce_springsteen-the_wrestler.mp3 18-dido-quiet_times.mp3 Edited April 4, 200916 yr by Tillywhim
April 5, 200916 yr Posted in by vasil, it's an interview in todays Guardian/Observer about relationships and this is Will talking about men, it's a very open and honest interview. From Guardian -on line http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserve...-relationships Quote: What I know about men Will Young, singer, 30, single My father is brilliant - he's a very generous man and a bit of a quiet anarchist on the side. It was hard for him when I first came out and he was very honest about it. For lots of parents, they have to face their own prejudices that maybe they're not even aware of themselves, and I think he struggled for a while, probably feeling a little bit ashamed and then guilty for feeling ashamed. But what's great about him is that because of what's happened with me and my brother Rupert he's grown with it - so he understands what it is to be gay, he understands what it is to be an alcoholic, he understands what it is to be a depressive, rather than being closed, which so many parents, particularly dads, are. I'm 10 minutes older than Rupert. As twins, you get bracketed as certain types and then get stuck in those definitions. I was the clever one, he was the sporty one; I was the sensible one, he was the physical one. He was always my protector when I was little - he was always tougher than me. I was more sensitive. Our roles completely changed when his problems started. He first cut his wrists when he was 18. Then I became his protector, the one who always calmed things down. Ironically, when he was better I didn't know what to do because my role was taken away. It had always been, "William's fine, look after Rupert", and then suddenly I had to sort out all the $h!t I'd had on the back burner for years. For a long time I was terrified of being gay. I didn't have my first relationship until I was 25 or so. I'd had a big unrequited love at university. I hadn't come out then and I just thought I'd go to university and meet someone - that would be it. Of course he was straight. I fell madly in love with him and it all ended very dramatically, with me moving out of the house we shared. He's married now and we're still friends. When I met my first boyfriend, Aaron, I'd already become known from Pop Idol. You have to deal with all the normal stuff in relationships and then there's the media attention on top of that. He was getting grief and it was tough. That was even more of a factor when I was with Connor afterwards. But I think it's a cop-out to blame fame for making relationships hard. Relationships are difficult full stop. When you're talking about two men together they're not always the best communicators; they tend to bottle things up. And men are quite competitive and have egos, and that's hard. I remember going to a party with Connor and it said "Will Young plus one" on the list. And it was his friend's party. That kind of thing is hard to take. Some men have trouble keeping their trousers zipped up - in straight relationships as well. In my first relationship I'd see someone and think: "Cor!", but you don't always have to act on it. I wonder if some gay men think they can't have a monogamous relationship because of the idea of "that's not what we have, we're free, we can shag anyone". I wouldn't want my partner to go off and shag someone else, ever. Of the men that I've been out with, as much as there have been times I wanted to murder them, I've learnt so much from them too and grown as a person from each one. I've had a wonderful time in my relationships, really; done amazing things. And as much as you go through a grieving process after a relationship ends, you know that eventually you'll want that again. __________________ Here's the picture from the Observer magazine that goes with the interview. :D http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i142/nodgersboots/observer001.jpg Edited April 5, 200916 yr by suggy
April 5, 200916 yr Author Such a touchingly honest article. I always got the feeling that his dad may have struggled with Will's sexuality. Thanks for bringing it over suggy.
April 5, 200916 yr Such a touchingly honest article. I always got the feeling that his dad may have struggled with Will's sexuality. Thanks for bringing it over suggy. Yes I think he must have initially TT, but having met and spoken to his Dad at the Roundhouse at London, (we were the only two people outside on the top floor bar area, sneaking a last ciggie before the start :lol: ) I think he adores him, he asked me where I'd travelled from etc and he said that's a long way to come, I told him I'd only do it for Will as he's such a fantastic singer, :heart: he looked so proud when he replied, yes he certainly is. Edited April 5, 200916 yr by suggy
April 5, 200916 yr Yes I think he must have initially TT, but having met and spoken to his Dad at the Roundhouse at London, (we were the only two people outside on the top floor bar area, sneaking a last ciggie before the start :lol: ) I think he adores him, he asked me where I'd travelled from etc and he said that's a long way to come, I told him I'd only do it for Will as he's such a fantastic singer, :heart: he looked so proud when he replied, yes he certainly is. That was nice Suggy - I'm sure his parents keep his feet firmly on the ground- hence the comment from his mum one time about not putting out the red carpet when he goes home :lol: Thanks for bringing it over - he certainly gives us food for thought. I've always thought a gay relationship would be much harder to keep going. Some men have trouble keeping their trousers zipped up - in straight relationships as well. In my first relationship I'd see someone and think: "Cor!", but you don't always have to act on it. I wonder if some gay men think they can't have a monogamous relationship because of the idea of "that's not what we have, we're free, we can shag anyone". I wouldn't want my partner to go off and shag someone else, ever. Edited April 5, 200916 yr by munchkin
April 6, 200916 yr I got this message sent to me on youtube i think they watched my Grace video from the Roundhouse....i think the person thought it was Will's official channel. Will, Just watched "Grace" , that bluesy ending was phenominal!!!!!! Congratulations, you made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I also watched the Dressage vid.......beautiful horse....great song. When I saw "Mrs. Henderson Presents" I had no idea who you were......but I thought you were terrific, the material was great....you should have gotten an award (perhaps you did, I do not follow these things much)......But I know what I like. Thanks for these little treats. Michael VA, USA
April 6, 200916 yr Author Thanks for posting the comments BYM+M's. Your vids are doing a great job displaying Will's talent to a wider audience.
April 6, 200916 yr Your vids are doing a great job displaying Will's talent to a wider audience. I noticed that american blogger used my IWGU video from Manchester as well .....at least my camera is being put to good use :dance:
April 9, 200916 yr Will taking home some organic food, pics were taken on the 7th of April and posted in by vasil, wonder if he said he'd cooked it himself? :lol: http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/4070/74480756.png :wub: http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/4725/67495511.png http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/9383/21719764.png http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7659/27781372.png
April 10, 200916 yr Author Will taking home some organic food, pics were taken on the 7th of April and posted in by vasil, wonder if he said he'd cooked it himself? :lol: http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/4070/74480756.png :wub: http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/4725/67495511.png http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/9383/21719764.png http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7659/27781372.png GORGEOUS pics. :heart: :heart: Thanks suggy.
April 10, 200916 yr Huh suggy you beat me to it. :lol: I particularly like the first one :wub: - think I'll put it in the pictures thread. :dance:
April 10, 200916 yr Thanks for bringing them over Suggy. http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/4070/74480756.png Love his hairy face :heart: :wub: and it looks like his dye is growing out - the hair looks lovely. Edited April 10, 200916 yr by munchkin
April 10, 200916 yr Yes, the dye's nearly all gone now, I'm pleased as well as I wasn't a fan of it. :D
April 11, 200916 yr Just saw this on twitter still recovering from excitement of interviewing Chrissie Hynde and Will Young this week. The Guardian was an awesome place to be! 6 hours ago I wonder when we will see this ? :D
April 11, 200916 yr Author Thanks BYM+M's. Looks like we have something to look forwrd to in the Guardian. :D
April 14, 200916 yr Evening Standard ‘Will’s success back then was my ticket to party and get laid’ Liz Hoggard http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/1404young21ES_415x524.jpg Rupert Young, twin brother of pop singer Will, rolls up his sleeve and shows me deep scars running from wrist to elbow. They are the reminders of his wilderness years when he spiralled out of control. It's hard to comprehend that the handsome, well-spoken man with exquisite manners is the same person arrested after a drunken fight and branded "the evil twin" by tabloids. But behind the lurid headlines is a darker, more human tale. While Will was winning hearts on Pop Idol, Rupert was battling alcoholism and a severe depressive illness. He attempted suicide twice. It took 10 stints in hospital before Rupert, now 30, was diagnosed with dysthymia, a depressive mood disorder often triggered by a trauma. He had all the symptoms - inability to sleep or focus, sensitivity to light, self-hatred - but it was only four years ago, in America, that his illness was finally recognised. "They just told me I was an addict and that was why I was the way I was. It took huge expense to get me to a safe place." Rupert knows he is lucky. His parents could afford to pay. Now he has founded The Mood Foundation to help others in London get the treatment that saved him. "My aim is to reach people who cannot afford the correct treatment or do not meet the 'threshold' to access the appropriate services." The foundation is building a national database of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists who can offer free, one-to-one treatment to anyone over 18 diagnosed with depression or anxiety as well as alternative therapies and activities such as music, photography, yoga and riding. The author Sebastian Faulks is patron of the charity. Will, adventurer Bear Grylls and singer Rachel Stevens launched the charity with a sponsored "pedalo" up the Thames. So far Rupert has raised more than £35,000. I meet Rupert backstage at the Novello theatre. The current production, Spring Awakening, is supporting the work of The Mood Foundation (and selling the charity's black wristbands). For Rupert, the hit musical seemed "an amazing fit - with its upbeat storyline promoting debate about mental health issues". He looks uncannily like a tough version of Will. When he was arrested, in 2004, much was made of his jealousy of his twin's fame. In fact, he says, the real problem was that it gave him the chance to misbehave on a grand scale. "I thought it was my ticket to party and get laid." But he is in awe of his twin's patience. "I don't know how he managed to control the fact that I used to turn up at his work, drunk, and just dive on the table and throw beer around. I rang him recently and said, 'Oh my God, I'm so sorry'." The boys had an idyllic childhood, growing up in Hungerford, Berkshire, with their elder sister, Emma. Their hippy parents - his mother is a market gardener, his father owns an engineering firm - often sunbathed naked. But then, aged seven the two boys were sent away to prep school - Horace Hill, near Newbury. "William was the clever one. I didn't quite match up. In assembly I was called a waster and people were told not to talk to me because I was a bad influence. As a child I believed that message - and internalised it." He hated the ultra-strict discipline. "I feel I had my identity handed to me on a plate at quite a young age through the physical violence. My environment was telling me I was a bit of an animal, so I thought maybe I should behave like an animal." Later, at Wellington College, Young discovered alcohol. "I knew I drank in a different way from the others. They would stick to weekends but I started drinking midweek. I'd get very aggressive." The irony was Rupert seemed to be the outgoing one, good with girls, a born performer. Will (who in retrospect knew he was gay) was more shy, reserved. Rupert talks openly about the first time he cut himself at the age of 15. "I caught my girlfriend in bed with a guy in the year above, and didn't know how to handle it. It was like a firework going off. I acted instinctively in a high-pressure situation. There's something primal about blood. It says, 'I'm suffering'." His friends celebrated the end of their A-levels with a week of partying but Young "never stopped". He hid his drinking from his parents. "I shoved bottles behind sofas, under cushions. In my mind I wasn't an alcoholic because I wasn't old enough to be." When the twins moved to work in London, Rupert started unravelling. With Will competing on Pop Idol every Saturday in 2002, Rupert had his "best ever excuse to party". He was never envious of Will's success. "I just thought: why the hell am I not fulfilling my potential?" At 20, he took a bread knife to his wrists, nearly bleeding to death at the bottom of a stairwell in a block of flats. "I remember being in hospital at 5am and William turning up, impeccably dressed, ready to deal with everything. I was so grateful to him for coming - it was an almost childish relief." Was it a death wish? "Not all teenagers realise the outcome of suicide is death. You can do a cry for help, which is what self harm is, but the danger is you might cut too deep and end up dead when all you're trying to say is: 'I feel this bad and I don't know why.'" He discharged himself. "I felt like I was going crazy but as soon as they stitched and bandaged me up, I was out of there." Will's success did help him find a job in television, as an assistant floor manager. But his drinking put paid to that. Then came another suicide attempt. He was sectioned in a north London hospital but escaped after 24 hours and, though he had stints in other hospitals, including the Priory in Bristol for alcoholism, his depression went undiagnosed. Rupert experienced huge feelings of guilt and shame. He was arrested after a drunken fight on the Embankment. "I believed I was going to prison for five to 10 years." The case rumbled on for three years until he was cleared. He was a hellish boyfriend - "It was insane, I used women like walking sticks. I was subconsciously picking women who wanted to look after people." When he went to stay with one girlfriend of four years, who lived near Kensington Palace, her parents would lock him in the attic so he could sleep off the alcohol. By the time Rupert was 25, his parents were forced to cut him out of their lives. "They couldn't do it any more, the staying up waiting for phone calls from hospitals." If he approached them when drinking, the police were called. "I don't blame them," says Rupert. "I'd done some really, really horrible things. I'd held them in a prison for quite a while." He sympathises with the novelist Julie Myerson, who very publicly cut loose her son. He, too, climbed on the roof of the house and threatened to jump off. "I remember my mother's voice," he falters, "it was an ancient scream like you just don't hear. She was so scared she was going berserk." Tough love saved his life. Eventually he couldn't see the point of living as an addict. In the summer of 2005, Rupert enrolled in a 40-day programme at the notoriously tough Sierra Tucson treatment centre in the Arizona desert. His family bankrolled the treatment (they have spent £120,000 over the years). It was here that Rupert's breakthrough occurred. "What was so obvious to the doctors there was that it was possible to isolate my experience at prep school as the root of my depression." Every day he got up at 5am for 10 hours of group cognitive behavioural therapy. It was nothing like a celebrity holiday camp. "You are literally that close to being put into a padded cell and losing your freedom." He loved the alternative therapy - massage, yoga, exercise and nutrition "just getting your animal self in motion, for the first time I felt normal". On his return, he stopped drinking and began to see a therapist, Dr Madeleine Clarke. With her encouragement he set up The Mood Foundation. His recovery has changed the Young family dynamic. "There are no longer hero roles and trophy children. It's brought us all closer together." He and Will are best friends again. In fact Will has spoken openly about seeing a therapist for his own panic attacks and also watches what he drinks. "We are made from similar stuff," says Rupert. "I think I gave a lot of people in my family quite a big distraction. What's interesting is that William now comes to me for advice. Five years ago that would have seemed impossible." His parents had no idea he was self-harming. Each time they thought it was a suicide attempt. Today they blame themselves for sending the twins away to school so young. But Rupert brushes this away. Their grandparents lived nearby and they had each other. His father "would probably like to tear the head off a few people in my past, and I think he wants to tear his own head off sometimes that he wasn't there a lot. But he shouldn't feel guilty he was providing for us. The saddest thing I have to deal with is my parents thinking they failed," he adds softly. "I can't tell them enough that there was nothing they could have done differently. It wasn't a conscious effort to put someone in harm's way." One of Rupert's proudest moments was taking his family to the gala performance of Spring Awakening. "I think the show sends out a message to parents and kids that this stuff went on 100 years ago - and it's still going on."
April 14, 200916 yr Thanks for posting that BYM+Ms It must have been an awful time for Will right about when he was promoting KO. No wonder he got a bit tetchy with some of the DJs when all that was going on with his twin. I know it's easy to say that he shouldn't have let it , but when someone who to all intense and purposes is the other half of yourself, is going through hell, it would be impossible to carry on without a care in the World.
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