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Boyzone: No Matter What reveals ‘harrowing’ reality of life in Irish boyband
When Boyzone was born in 1993, five Dublin boys were swept away from their normal lives and entered into global stardom. With their catchy brand of pop music, the boyband amassed swarms of fans across the globe and sold 25 million records worldwide under the wing of manager Louis Walsh.
As we now understand all too well, however, that degree of fame comes at a price.
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For the first time in 30 years, the four surviving Boyzone band members – Ronan Keating, Keith Duffy, Shane Lynch, and Mikey Graham – are opening up about their personal journeys in three-part documentary series Boyzone: No Matter What.
With never-before-seen archive footage, emotional interviews, and reflections from those close to the late Stephen Gately, who died in 2009, the series tells the honest
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Stephen Gately
Irish pop singer (1976–2009)
Stephen Gately | |
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Gately in 2009 | |
| Born | Stephen Patrick David Gately (1976-03-17)17 March 1976 Sheriff Street, Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 10 October 2009(2009-10-10) (aged 33) Port d'Andratx, Mallorca, Spain |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 1993–2009 |
| Spouse | Andrew Cowles (m. 2006) |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | Pop |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Formerly of | Boyzone |
| Website | stephengately.co.uk |
Musical artist | |
Stephen Patrick David Gately (17 March 1976 – 10 October 2009) was an Irish singer, who, with Ronan Keating, was co-lead singer of the pop group Boyzone.[1] All of Boyzone's studio albums during Gately's lifetime hit number one in the United Kingdom, their third being their most successful internationally. With Boyzone, Gately had a record-breaking sixteen consecutive singles enter the top five of the UK Singles Chart.[2] He p
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Boyzone: No Matter What review - It’s gripping, gruelling stuff that you can’t look away from
The Boyzone story started with a farcical debut on The Late Late Show in 1993 – Gay Byrne was for once lost for words – and would swerve into tragedy with the sudden death of Stephen Gately, in 2009, at the age of 33.
But it is also a tale that ended not with a bang but a whimper, with the post-Gately version of the band bowing out in 2019 with an underwhelming farewell tour that was overshadowed by an estrangement between Mikey Graham and Keith Duffy.
Aptly for a group who once performed with the Bee Gees, it’s a pop tragedy – and Boyzone’s surviving members do not hold back in a bruisingly bingeable new three-part documentary that makes life on the frontline of pop seem like a one-way ticket to the seventh circle of hell.
In the run-up to Boyzone: No Matter What (Sky Documentaries, Sunday, 9pm), Ronan Keating expressed the fear that he “doesn’t come across particularly well at some