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Full article at https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/25/five-steps-90s-pop-reach-for-the-stars-michael-cragg-extract

Apparently there is a book too.

Wouldn’t you have thought at a Christian school there would have been enough thoughts and prayers to prevent this

Came here to post almost the same thing. Not again. Terrible.

Yeah, it's me, and it's Pete Waterman being very bitter still.

Hahaha. I love this!

Lol. I was on the Sinister mailing list at the time. Someone pointed out that there was no obstacle to people voting for B&S on the Radio 1 website as many times as they wanted, and we all went to town on it. Good times.

Made me chuckle over my weekend muesli wokerati reading.

And you've been making man-children bitter at LFGSS ever since.

That too was me

They took no email, so weren't detecting duplicates that way.
They set no cookies, so didn't prevent double voting.
The only thing that could detect duplicates were the IP address, but it's 1998 and every time you log on to the internet with your modem you get a new IP address 🥳

That was basically all that I did, tell two mailing lists comprising 25,000 fans about this.

(Well, that and set up two mailing lists that accrued 25K fans whilst few other artists or labels had even made websites).

Surely you can teams thoughts and prayers now without the need to be there

Even by Pete Waterman standards, Steps were proper shit.

Light-hearted but struggle to see the laughs here with people dying :(

Less of the 'were'! They are the first British, mixed-gender group to achieve four number 1 albums in four different decades and still active.

So they're still proper shit?

https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/27/royal-mail-bosses-threaten-to-declare-insolvency-as-pay-talks-near-collapse

Are you 'H'?

Even by Pete Waterman standards, Steps were a tragedy for popular music.

ftfy

This sounded mad so I looked it up and it turns out the 2nd 3rd and 4th of those decades saw repackaged versions of the same hits album over and over. Not sure that counts!

The IP address thing rings a bell. I think they said there were two ‘clusters’ of voting irregularities, one at Cambridge University, the other at Strathclyde University. They allowed the Strathclyde one because it was in the band’s hometown. I’m confident that a large portion of the Strathclyde cluster was me hitting refresh on a lab PC during my lunch hour.

Pete Waterman still being a bit salty

Ah, but there are ways of dealing with this, surely?

https://www.angermanagementseminar.com/choosing-an-anger-management-course-anger-management-5-steps-to-successful-temper-control.php

Erm, OK. Cool.

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The CumEx Files...

(not mine - someone else coined the phrase ages ago)

Bet the cunt wishes he'd been wearing his big coat:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/29/pope-francis-taken-hospital-respiratory-infection

Offencive to cunts everywhere to lump him in. A devil.

Ha, all I can see is Allfather D'Aronique.