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Wet Wet Wet Lead Singer Reveals All In Pellow Talk Book
As the former lead singer of one of the 80s most successful bands go on tour this spring, Marti’s ‘Pellow Talk’ tour and autobiography digs deep into the former Scotsman’s roots…
REVIEW by Ian Woolley
Marti Pellow
Marti continues to be dedicated to his songwriting, to challenging what he has done before, to creating new music and to pushing the boundaries of what is expected, still hitting the road and performing to thousands, still recording and producing top ten records, still the utterly dedicated singer song-writer following his heart.
If his current UK tour is anything to go by, his fans old and new are in for a visual as well. Now with an accompanying limited edition box set on offer, it’s searingly honest, beautifully written and infused with humour and warmth.
Pellow Talk recalls a journey that took the author from the West End to Broadway. It also demonstrates a continued determination to push back the boundaries, innovate and create real beauty.
Marti’s career began a
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Marti Pellow (born March 23, 1965 in Clydebank, near Glasgow, Scotland) is the lead singer of the Scottish pop group Wet Wet Wet.
He enjoyed success with the group throughout the late 1980s and 1990s. However, in 1997 drummer Tommy Cummingham left the band and its success waned immediately. Pellow was by this time suffering from addiction to heroin. He famously quoted, on finally beating the drug, "It was textbook. I couldn't function without it. But there's no romantic side to heroin - it's no good."
In May 1999, Marti left Wet Wet Wet in order to embark on a solo career. November that year saw Marti on his first solo tour. On 4 June 2001, he released his first single, Close To You, followed a few weeks later by his first solo album, Smile. A further single, I've Been Around The World, was released that November; towards the end of the year he had a seven-date tour (the Smile Tour) around Britain. In 2002, Marti hosted and sang in Girls' Night Out, one of a week of shows in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust, at the Royal Albert Hall. This led to
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Early Life
The Beginnings
Marti’s career began as a teenager when he formed a band with his school friends that became Wet Wet Wet, but even then, when a major record company offered them the top UK pop producers of the day, they insisted on going to Memphis, Tennessee, to find possibly the greatest R&B and soul producer of the 1970’s, Willie Mitchell, the man who’d produced Al Green, Ike & Tina Turner, Ann Peebles and Otis Reading.
It was this level of commitment and self-belief that saw Marti and Wet Wet Wet achieve more success than just about any other band at that time. It was also the years that greatly developed his songwriting, schooled him in production and arranging, gave him huge stage confidence and style and the growth of arguably the greatest white soul voice in pop.
And then when the band went their separate ways for a while, Marti went back to where it had all begun, with Willie Mitchell in Memphis making his first solo album, the platinum selling album Smile. While there he was honoured with the Keys to the City of Memphis, and even had the White
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