The All Saints are back. I love their reunion single, "Rock Steady," which is already #3 on the UK airplay chart and hits stores next Monday. In a very crowded week of releases, which includes singles from Sugababes, Green Day & U2, and Westlife, I think they will be #1.
I have nostalgic memories for the All Saints, for their first #1 single, "Never Ever" was the #1 single my first weekend in London in 1998. Thus they were one of the first British pop acts not popular in the US (at least at that time) that I was introduced to. Before splitting up three years later, they scored four more #1 hits: a remake of Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under the Bridge," which incidentally was #1 in May 1998 right as I was leaving London; "Bootie Call;" "Pure Shores," which was the second biggest selling UK single of 2000; and "Black Coffee," a William Orbit production and one of my personal favorites from the group.
The band released a greatest hits album in 2001 and then split up, reportedly on unfriendly terms. Two of the members, sisters Nicole and Natalie Appleton formed a new group, Appleton, which had top ten hit with "Fantasy" and "Don't Worry." Nicole Appleton made tabloid headlines when she began dating Robbie Williams late in 1997, they got engaged, she got pregnant (and ended that with an abortion), and they finally split up. Her voice even appears briefly on his second album, saying "love you baby" at the beginning of "Win Some Lose Some."
In 2000 Nicole began dating Oasis member Liam Gallagher; the couple gave birth to son Gene in 2001 and plan to marry in the future.
The other two members went solo. Shaznay lewis hit the top 10 in 2004 with "Never Felt Like This Before," while Melanie Blatt hit the top 10 with the Artful Dodger on "Twentyfourseven," just before the band broke up.
The new album, Studio 1, is due November 13.
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