Posted May 21, 200916 yr http://www.gettyimages.com/search/search.a...mp;src=standard Very nice he is looking so good lately - beard's back too :wub: and a new jacket too :D Nice one on WENN: http://photo.wenn.com/index.php?ref=ivor+n...mp;action=start Edited May 21, 200916 yr by munchkin
May 21, 200916 yr Thanks munchkin. Thought I'd bring these over to brighten up the place. :wub: http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb152/gillwill_photos/IvorNovellos4.jpg http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb152/gillwill_photos/IvorNovellos2.jpg http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb152/gillwill_photos/IvorNovellos.jpg http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb152/gillwill_photos/IvorNovellos3.jpg
May 21, 200916 yr Author Thanks for hosting them TT - there's another one on Getty now too 1st page - :heart: 'Moody' one from Evening Standard: http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/galleries/showbiz/novello09/will-young.jpg Edited May 21, 200916 yr by munchkin
May 22, 200916 yr Very fitting that it was Will who presented Eg White with his award. LRN was a milestone in both their careers & it was lovely hearing Eg heaping praise on Will this morning on the BBC Breakfast show. :D
May 22, 200916 yr Author Sorry had to bring this one over - Bumbling has posted up some gorgeous pix from 'Famous' - this is just one: http://images2.image-data.com/images/9/lowres/64020/64020721.jpg :wub: :wub:
May 22, 200916 yr Very fitting that it was Will who presented Eg White with his award. LRN was a milestone in both their careers & it was lovely hearing Eg heaping praise on Will this morning on the BBC Breakfast show. :D It such a shame that his writing success has not translated to his own album. his album was released this week and is only at #161 and looks like it will sell about 900 copies or less, but then it was not available in supermarkets [ well according to the sales report none where sold there] his single is not in top 200. he was so lovely about Will today :wub:
May 22, 200916 yr Author Very fitting that it was Will who presented Eg White with his award. LRN was a milestone in both their careers & it was lovely hearing Eg heaping praise on Will this morning on the BBC Breakfast show. :D It such a shame that his writing success has not translated to his own album. his album was released this week and is only at #161 and looks like it will sell about 900 copies or less, but then it was not available in supermarkets [ well according to the sales report none where sold there] his single is not in top 200. he was so lovely about Will today :wub: As Eg said, (when that presenter so cynically said to him that could he maybe have had just as huge a hit with it as Will , ) he just hasn't got the charisma and special something- that 'star quality' that those who have sung his songs have. It's likely why his first attempts with Brother Beyond failed and he turned to the thing he is so talented at - his songwriting. He certainly seemed ill-at-ease under the spotlight, but I can see exactly why Will gets along with him so well. Edited May 22, 200916 yr by munchkin
May 22, 200916 yr It such a shame that his writing success has not translated to his own album. his album was released this week and is only at #161 and looks like it will sell about 900 copies or less, but then it was not available in supermarkets [ well according to the sales report none where sold there] his single is not in top 200. he was so lovely about Will today :wub: Thanks for the info Sunday. I was wondering where his releases would chart after they didn't appear in the buzzjack chart thread. I agree with munchkin, nice man & a very god songwriter but you need more than that to sell records.
May 22, 200916 yr . It's likely why his first attempts with Brother Beyond failed and he turned to the thing he is so talented at - his songwriting. I didn't realise he was with BB too, I know he was with Eg & Alice. I remember Nathan Moore being in BB, his sister lives a couple of doors from my son. :D Edited May 22, 200916 yr by Marguerite
May 22, 200916 yr Author I didn't realise he was with BB too, I know he was with Eg & Alice. I remember Nathan Moore being in BB, his sister lives a couple of doors from my son. :D He mentioned it himself in one of his interviews but I'd Googled him when LRN came out to see who this Francis"Eg" White was. Here's the Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Beyond
May 23, 200916 yr Will looks amazing in these pics. Such a shame for Eg, he deserves success, but perhaps he should stick to writing. There is a real skill in performing with charisma and getting a song across. Or perhaps it's an innate thing. It shouldn't be underestimated and I'm glad Eg was able to see that Will has that in spades!
May 23, 200916 yr I posted these clean-ups on D earlier, so I thought i'd pop them in here too: :D http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e223/erasurepop/vf-edit1.jpg http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e223/erasurepop/vf-edit2.jpg
May 25, 200916 yr Lovely pictures - thanks. The thing Will has in spades and Eg doesn't have is charisma. Eg is a nice man but not charismatic enough to be a star like Will. That is one of the reasons why Will won Pop Idol in the first place. That and the voice!
May 27, 200916 yr Author This is an interesting read - thanks to Bumbling on D for the link. Songwriter White craves stage By Liam Allen Entertainment reporter, BBC News Eg White has written big hits with stars including Duffy and Adele When Eg White was named as songwriter of the year at industry awards the Ivor Novellos it came as little surprise to those at the ceremony. For while 42-year-old White is not a household name, his songs are known to millions. Just a few UK hits he co-wrote last year included Duffy number three Warwick Avenue - which he didn't think would be a hit - and Changes, the first single from Young's Let It Go album. But he says he's written only three songs which he instantly knew would be hits. They were Will Young's 2003 number one Leave Right Now, James Morrison's 2006 breakthrough single You Give Me Something and last year's Chasing Pavements by Adele. "I wrote Leave Right Now by myself but when Jim [James Morrison]and Adele stood up to the microphone and sung...phew, no question." 'Freedom to express' It's as a co-writer working with young artists that White has excelled. Presenting the songwriter with his award on Thursday, Young said that "when the knives were out" for him following his first flush of Pop Idol success, White had given him "the freedom to express myself which put him in a minority of the writers I'd been shoved in with". Eg White on co-writing When co-writing, which he has done with pop giants including James Blunt, Kylie Minogue and Pink, the day usually begins in the basement studio of his house at 11am. "We come in and have a cup of tea, maybe some biscuits, and we'll talk probably for an hour or two hours until either a theme starts to emerge or you'll wish you could do a certain kind of song." He adds: "Once we've got a sense about what the music might do, and this might be hours in, I'll pick up a guitar. "They'll be on the sofa and I'll get a guitar and I'll say, 'what about these kind of chords?' and they'll start singing something and it'll be 'stick that line in here' and 'move that line about a bit so it'll fit your tune'… "That bit's quick if you've held off long enough and the writing of the song, probably happens in 20 minutes." Big time success has come late for White, who left boy band Brother Beyond just before they broke through with Stock, Aitken and Waterman-produced hit The Harder I Try in 1988. And in 1991, he recorded an album as Eg and Alice - with singer Alice Temple - which failed to chart. He says it's taken him "an astonishingly long time to to get to the point where I'm even turning out one good song out of 10" and that it's "only the last five or six years that I've been consistent". 'Downright silly' It was Will Young's huge international success with Leave Right Now, picked up from a demo, that was to change White from frustrated songwriter into in-demand co-writer. But, seemingly not content with becoming the UK's hottest songsmith, White has decided to take centre stage by recording an album for record label Parlophone on which he sings his own material. He agrees it might appear to be a strange move. "Why would I throw away the best job in the world?" He says it would be "downright silly to do anything that jeopardises that" but that, at the age of 42, he thought it would "be wise to make life a bit difficult for myself, to do things that are frankly scary and out of order". Adventure Man is an album full of laid-back, richly-orchestrated songs which offer slow-burning satisfaction rather than the instant gratification of the big hits he's written for others. "But business is business," he says. "If there had been any hits they would have gone to someone else." If this is White's rule of thumb, then he's made a big mistake in keeping piano-led lead single Broken - with its epic sweeping strings and choral backing - for himself. White admits that, for all his success as a backroom powerhouse, he secretly wishes he was the one up on stage receiving the adulation. "But it's a joke thing, it's a fantasy and it'll never be reality," he adds. He says he was in awe of the lead singer of a band he went to watch on Thursday night to celebrate his Novello win. "He jumps up on the bass drum and all I'm thinking is, 'that's so brilliant'. "He's jumping up and down on it and it was just magnificent, it made my heart sing, but I could never do it. "But I'd love to do it." Eg White's album Adventure Man and single Broken are out now 'Freedom to express' It's as a co-writer working with young artists that White has excelled. Presenting the songwriter with his award on Thursday, Young said that "when the knives were out" for him following his first flush of Pop Idol success, White had given him "the freedom to express myself which put him in a minority of the writers I'd been shoved in with".I was hoping we would hear/read what Will had said in his presentation. He's certainly on the same wavelength as Eg. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8063576.stm And another snippet - thanks to Threepiecesuit on D for this: I'm pleased that Eg, whilst he certainly kick-started Will's career proper, he also acknowledged that Will did the same for him too. From today's Music Week, re: Eg and Will at the Ivor Novello Awards... Eg White was named songwriter of the year following successes with Adele, Duffy and Will Young. White received his award from Young who thanked him for the song Leave Right Now, which topped the charts for him and "gave me a career". In reply, White, who last year switched publishers from Universal to Sony/ATV, saluted Young as he "gave me my first chance and many millions more". Nice to see Will mentioned as a reason for his success in this particular year as well as Duffy and Adele, I can only presume they are referring to 'Changes'. Edited May 27, 200916 yr by munchkin
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