Pete Waterman

Rick Astley: how we made Never Gonna Give You Up

‘One day I was making the tea for Bananarama. The next I was at No 1’

Interviews by Dave Simpson

23, Mar, 2020 @2:40 PM

'I crawled on my knees to Kylie' – the inside story of Stock, Aitken and Waterman

To mark the publication of a pictorial history of the songwriters Mike Stock talks about the ‘Hit Factory’ years

Mike Stock interviewed by Tim Jonze

28, Mar, 2017 @7:00 AM

Why Abba’s Dancing Queen is the best pop song ever

Since its 1976 release, Abba’s ‘absolute best song’ (according to Frida Lyngstad) has won over everyone from punks to royalty and almost caused a riot in New York. So how has the song’s low-lit Friday night managed to last for ever?

Tim Jonze

08, Sep, 2016 @6:00 AM

Pete Waterman: A Life in Song review - hit songs, with no stars to sing them

A retrospective full of amusing, if lengthy, anecdotes from the Stock, Aitken and Waterman hitmaker, but lacking recognisable singers for the live performances

Caroline Sullivan

31, Jul, 2015 @1:19 PM

Alvin Stardust obituary

Glam rock singer who found life beyond the 1970s as a television presenter and actor

Adam Sweeting

23, Oct, 2014 @5:42 PM

Stakker Humanoid: how the Future Sound of London won hearts and minds

When, 25 years ago, Bruno Brookes and Pete Waterman championed Stakker Humanoid, it became the first acid house record to break into the mainstream. So what drew these titans of pop to make Humanoid a hit?

Stuart Aitken

11, Nov, 2013 @3:23 PM