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The huge success of Carry On Up The Charts helped power their next album, Blue Is The Colour, to more than a million sales, helped by the hits singles Rotterdam and Don't Marry Her. Read More Related Articles European platinum certificates: 1996". ifpi.org. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012 . Retrieved 1 March 2010. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

Taylor, Stella (14 June 2007). "A poignant musical dissertation on student life and dreams". Gazette and Herald . Retrieved 1 November 2019. The third initial bandmember was Dave Rotheray, a songwriting guitarist who'd previously played with Hemingway in two other Hull bands, the Newpolitans and the Velvetones. At the time, Rotheray was studying for a PhD at the University of Hull and living on Grafton Street, where Heaton also lived. Rotheray and Heaton became the songwriting team for the Beautiful South, which was conceived as a quintet with Heaton and Hemingway (who was no longer drumming) as the two lead singers. The core band was completed by Dave Stead (ex-Luddites/Vicious Circle) on drums, and former Housemartins roadie Sean Welch on bass guitar. Also important to the band's sound was studio keyboard player Damon Butcher — though never an official member of the group, he would end up playing virtually all the piano and keyboard parts on the band's albums. a b c Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Carry on Up the Charts: The Best of the Beautiful South – The Beautiful South". AllMusic . Retrieved 28 February 2014. In 1994, St Helens supermarket shop-worker Jacqui Abbott was brought on board to fill in as the new third lead vocalist for the band. Heaton had heard her sing at an after-show party in St Helens and remembered her vocal talents. Heaton referred to her as "the lass from the glass" [9]—a reference to the Pilkington factory in St Helens. Abbott's first album with the band was Miaow in the same year. Hits included "Good as Gold (Stupid as Mud)" and a cover of Fred Neil's " Everybody's Talkin'", previously popularised by Harry Nilsson.As a duo, they recorded a successful new album, What Have We Become? In 2020, their fourth album, Manchester Calling, reached number one in the album charts. The Beautiful South are a band beloved by many. Formed in 1988, their songs still sound as good today as they ever did. Here we take a look at their best songs of all-time. However, in 2009, there was a reformation of sorts without Heaton. Under the moniker The New Beautiful South, Dave Hemingway, Alison Wheeler, David Stead and others sought to carry on the band's story.

Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott headline the Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury at 9.30pm on Friday, June 24. The BBC is streaming more than 90 full sets, as well as other highlights, throughout the weekend on iPlayer. Harris, Bill (17 November 2006). "Queen rules – in album sales". Jam!. Archived from the original on 29 June 2012 . Retrieved 18 July 2021. Find sources: "The Beautiful South"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( November 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) In return, they will remind festival-goers of one of the great songbooks in British music. Heaton and Abbott were of course key members of The Beautiful South, one of the biggest-selling bands of the 1990s. The US, German and Japanese releases also include a cover of " Dream a Little Dream" (music by Fabian Andre& Wilbur Schwandt, lyric by Gus Kahn).

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Whatever happens next, it seems certain that the music of The Beautiful South and The Housemartins will live on for many years to come. Read More Related Articles Sutherland, Ben (1 February 2007). "The South's bitter-sweet legacy". BBC News . Retrieved 28 February 2014.

Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (9 October 1995). "Carry on Up the Charts: The Best of the Beautiful South - The Beautiful South". AllMusic . Retrieved 28 February 2014. From their Choke album, it’s a complicated song about the rollercoaster of love and how it can’t be forced. It speaks of love as an uncontrollable force and highlights the folly in trying to understand it. The simple instrumentation and brilliant vocal of the song makes it all the more powerful. In 1990, the Beautiful South released their second album, Choke. Two singles—"My Book" and "Let Love Speak Up Itself"—charted outside the Top 40, but the album also provided the band's only Number 1 hit, a Hemingway/Corrigan duet called " A Little Time". The video, featuring the aftermath of a domestic fight, won the 1991 BRIT Award for Best Video. [3] Third album and Corrigan's departure [ edit ]

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Carry On Up the Charts was released in November 1994, the same year as the band's previous album Miaow, with its only single, "One Last Love Song", being released in October 1994, only two months after "Prettiest Eyes"; the last single to be taken from Miaow. "One Last Love Song" reached number 14 in the UK Singles Chart. A BBC review of the album stated "Often misunderstood and overlooked by the barometer of cool, Heaton and his minions have beavered away nevertheless and become two of the finest exponents of pop Britain has ever had", [2] while the Manchester Evening News declared "the early work shows them as being a jewel in our pop heritage." [3] Chart performance [ edit ] The sleeve of the album contains an introduction to it and a brief history of the band by long term friend and fan of the bands, journalist and radio DJ Stuart Maconie. It also contains artwork from throughout the bands' careers and gives the names of all the members of both bands throughout their duration. Their most played song on Spotify and it’s easy to see why. The beautiful acoustic intro and Abbott’s vocals just put you in a great mood. The chorus flows beautifully and it’s a song that’s impossible not to love. The lyrics are quite sad in a way, in contrast to the style of the song. The result, however, is a song you simply have to sing along too.

Clark, Graham (8 August 2022). "Interview With Dave Hemingway - Ex Beautiful South Singer". The Yorkshire Times . Retrieved 30 August 2023. The album Quench (1998) was released with similar commercial success, again reaching number one in the UK album charts. " Perfect 10", the first single to be released from the album, also provided the band with further singles chart success. The album is also notable for being more uptempo, and being the first on which Heaton and Hemingway's former Housemartins colleague Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) was used in a consultancy role. [14] Painting It Red release and Abbott's departure [ edit ] The Beautiful South – the Band". BBC News. 29 November 2001. Archived from the original on 24 April 2011 . Retrieved 29 August 2023.It's not Rotterdam, Liverpool, Rome, or even Hull, but Glastonbury is sure to give a warm welcome to Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott when they headline the Acoustic Stage. We never really split up – all that happened was Paul made the decision to leave," Stead told The Hull Daily Mail at the time. "We're going to be playing all our greatest hits and the old favourites along with a few new songs." These days, Hemingway is playing with a new band, Sunbirds, who rolled up at The Adelphi earlier this year. Briana Corrigan, meanwhile, went on to release an acclaimed solo album before becoming a music teacher. Power, Mark (28 July 2020). "When REM created a Monster: inside the tour that almost destroyed them". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 30 August 2023. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "British certifications – Beautiful South". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 7 May 2023. Type Beautiful South in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.