Paul Young

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Paul Antony Young (born 17 January 1956) is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

Formerly the frontman of the short-lived bands Kat Kool & the Kool Cats, Streetband and Q-Tips, he was turned into a 1980s teen idol by subsequent solo success.

His hit singles include "Love of the Common People", "Wherever I Lay My Hat", "Come Back and Stay", "Every Time You Go Away" and "Everything Must Change", all reaching the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart.

Released in 1983, his debut album No Parlez, the first of three UK number-one albums, made him a household name.

His smooth yet soulful voice belonged to a genre known as "blue-eyed soul".

At the 1985 Brit Awards, Young received the award for Best British Male.

Associated with the Second British Invasion of the US, "Every Time You Go Away" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1985.

It also won Best British Video at the 1986 Brit Awards.In July 1985, Young appeared at Live Aid held at Wembley Stadium, London, performing the Band Aid hit "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (having sung the opening lines on the original single release), and his own hits "Come Back and Stay" and "Every Time You Go Away", with Alison Moyet joining him on stage to perform "That's The Way Love Is".

Since the mid-1990s, Young has performed with his band Los Pacaminos.

Personal life

Young met his wife, former model Stacey Smith, on his video for "Come Back and Stay" in 1983. They married while they were living in Los Angeles in November 1987. They had three children: daughters Levi (born March 1987), Layla (born August 1994), and son Grady Cole (born January 1996). Young and Smith split up in May 2006 and then reconciled in March 2009. On 26 January 2018, it was announced that Stacey Young had died of brain cancer, aged 52.

Young is a close friend of singer and former Spandau Ballet front man Tony Hadley. The two toured Australia and New Zealand during October and November 2008.

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Early life and career

Paul Young was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. Mark is his older brother, as well as a younger sister, Joanne. He played football for the Vauxhall Motors factory as a youth and performed in several bands as a bass guitarist in his spare time.

Kat Kool & the Kool Kats, the first band for which he was lead singer, was among the first groups for which he had been named lead singer. He appeared in the late 1970s with the comedic, nostalgia song "Toast," which had one of the UK's top 20 hits. Streetband disbanded in December 1979.

Dave Lathwell on guitar and Baz Watts on drums, as well as Q-Tips, were among the ex-Streetbanders' new recruits. In addition,, Steve Farr (baritone saxophone), Richard Blanchard (tenor saxophone), Stuart Van Blandamer (alto saxophone), and Tony Hughes (trumpet), who all hail from the North London and Hertfordshire area, although organist Ian Kewley lived in Essex, produced a four piece brass section. The name of Q-tips comes from a well-known brand of cotton buds.

In November 1979, Q-Tips' first rehearsals took place. The Queens Arms Hotel in Harrow hosted their first concert on November 18, 1979. This was followed by two more at the Horn of Plenty in St Albans, a regular fixture for Streetband in 1978, with a total of 16 people in their first month of existence. Blanchard and Lathwell left the band in the first six months, causing some staff turnovers.

The band had two albums, "SYSLJFM (The Letter Song)" and "Having a Party," both recorded at the Livingstone Studios in Barnet by April 1981. By mid-1981, constant touring and concert appearances had bolstered a burgeoning fan base, when the band's modest amount of soul music covers were outnumbered by the band's own hits. The band's professionalism attracted the attention of several record labels, with the late Mickie Most (RAK Records) announcing that Q-Tips "are definitely the best live band playing at the moment" on BBC Radio 1's Round Table show. Q-Tips had released their debut, eponymous album, in August 1980, according to British music magazine NME.

Garth Watt Roy replaced John Gifford on guitar, and Blandamer was replaced by Nick Payne. This lineup lasted for the remainder of the band's career. In the second part of 1981, they appeared on BBC Television's In Concert, Rock Goes to College, and The Old Grey Whistle Test. Children's Saturday morning television shows were among the other television shows. The J. Geils Band, the Knack, Thin Lizzy, Bob Marley, and the Average White Band all have a Q-tip.

On their 10-date UK tour in 1980, the band appeared on After the Fire and supported the Who. Q-Tips performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1981. Since the introduction of two albums and seven singles, the Q-Tips plummeted in early 1982, when Paul Young signed a solo recording deal with CBS. The brass section and drummer of Q-Tips toured with Adam Ant in late 1982 and 1983, although some of them stayed for Ant's 1984 Strip tour.

In 1993, Young teamed up with Q-Tips for a reunion tour.

Solo career and pop stardom

Young was signed by Columbia Records as a solo performer on 1982's The Q-Tips disbanded, and the Q-Tips were released as a group. Young, along with ex-Q-tips member, songwriter, and keyboard player Ian Kewley, began writing and recording songs for his debut album, No Parlez.

The royal Family's new support band included keyboardist Kewley, fretless bass player Pino Palladino, guitarist Steve Bolton, drummer Mark Pinder, drummer Mark Pinder, and backing singers Maz Roberts and Kim Leslie AKA The Fabulous Wealthy Tarts. His first two singles, "Iron Out the Rough Spots" and a cover of "Love of the Common People," were no success, but a third, a cover of Marvin Gaye's "Wherever I Lay My Hat," debuted at No. 1 on the Marvin Gaye album "Wherever I Lay My Hat," debuted at No. In the summer of 1983, Number 1 in the UK Singles Chart was the first of 14 British Top 40 singles. The song appeared on the soundtrack of Peter's Friends, a 1992 British comedy film.

A similar success was enjoyed around Europe. "Come Back and Stay," the UK's follow-up single, reached the top of the charts. It was also a re-release of "Love of the Common People" that made it to No. 4, and a re-release of "Love of the Common People" made it to No. His debut album No Parlez was certified platinum in several countries, and even received radio airplay in the United States (thanks to its soundtrack inclusion in John Hughes' film Sixteen Candles).

Young's first big promotional and live concert tour of America strained his vocal cords to the point that he was forced to rest his voice and not perform for much of the year. He recovered well enough to be involved in the Band Aid album "Do They Know It's Christmas?" "Berbet and Midge Ure's all-star charitable effort for Ethiopian famine relief." Young performed the first lines of the song as a substitute for David Bowie.

He returned to the top ten with a parody of Ann Peebles' "I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down." The former appeared on his second album, The Secret of Association, which was released in 1985 and guaranteed his future success in the United States, Japan, and Australia. The album debuted at No. 1 on the charts. In the United Kingdom, there is only one. However, he continued to have occasional voice and throat difficulties. Young's hit was his career with "Every Time You Go Away," a tribute to a song from 1980 Hall & Oates album Voices. In the United States, "Every Time You Go Away" topped the pop charts, and it was his highest success in the United States. During the Live Aid concert in London, he performed the song.

Young toured extensively for Genesis on their Invisible Touch Tour in 1987. Young performed more than 35 dates in 13 countries, including "Everything Must Change," "I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down," "Come Back and Stay," and "Everytime You Go Away." This tour came to an end on July 1-4, 1987 in London, with four sold out shows attracting over 350,000 fans.

In 1990, he launched a Chi-Lites' "Oh Girl" covers, which reached the No. 1 spot on the charts. Billboard Hot 100: 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.

He continued to have a fruitful career, with some of his appearances including "Don't Think It's Over" with Italian blues singer Zucchero in 1988, and performing "Radio Ga Ga" with the remaining members of Queen shortly after Freddie Mercury died in 1992. In 1991, he performed a duet with Irish group Clannad for the Blake Edwards film Switch, a recreation of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" in Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now."

"Don't Dream It's Over," "Senza Donna (Without a Woman)" and "Both Sides Now" were among his first hits album From Time To Time – The Singles Collection, released in 1991. The collection featured hit singles from Young's first four solo albums, three of which were unveiled, as well as a formerly unveiled selection titled "I'm Only Foolin' Myself."

Later career

Young formed Los Pacaminos, based on the sounds of Ry Cooder's "Chicken Skin Music" and the Texas Tornados, a Texas-Mex group, and the Texas Tornados, and they first performed low-key parties in bars and clubs before progressing to theatres. Young was dropped from his CBS/Sony Records label in 1993 and, afterward, there were no solo albums. The Q-Tips were reformed for a short sequence of concerts last year. In 1995, he sang on Vangelis album Voices. At Wembley Stadium, Young performed "God Save the Queen," the British national anthem before England's Euro 96 semi-final match against Germany.

Young was playing solo and preparing for his next album, Paul Young, which was released on East West Records the following year. Michael Aspel, who was on the final night of the Here and Now tour, gave him his book This Is Your Life. On December 5, the show went out on BBC One. On the Wild Side of Swing, Rock Swing was released in 2006. He appeared on the BBC1 cooking show Celebrity MasterChef in September 2006 and won his show, giving him a spot in the semi-finals. He appeared on another cooking show, Hell's Kitchen, a year later.

Although his musical career had begun to decline, Young began to appear in more prominent publications. He appeared on programs including The Wright Stuff, This Morning, and The One Show. Young produced and launched "Come Back," a duet he performed with electro dance music act Chicane in 2010. The single was a sample of Young's 1983 hit "Come Back and Stay," and it was charted at 151 on the UK Singles Chart, at 151. The single was released on Chicane's 2010 album Giants. Young Thing, Arthur Baker's album of vintage soul songs, was released in 2016 and began a long line of tours and festival appearances. He and his band are now touring around the world.

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