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Kean Canter Mattowski: June 2016
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Sticking up for Stock Aitken Waterman. Monday, 13 June 2016. KCM Hotshot #2: Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi - Kylie Minogue. Kylie Minogue was enjoying huge success with Stock Aitken Waterman in 1988, with the tour de force that was I Should Be So Lucky. Followed by the introspective, perfect pop of Got To Be Certain. Not to mention the SAW reworking of The Loco-Motion. The lead track of this double A-side - Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi. Vanessa Paradis' Joe Le Taxi. And Desireless' Voyage Voyage. Gained fans when p...
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Kean Canter Mattowski: For Me and for all fans, a new pop smash from Mike Stock
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Sticking up for Stock Aitken Waterman. Thursday, 11 August 2016. For Me and for all fans, a new pop smash from Mike Stock. Apologies the blog has been quiet recently; I am working on a few new articles but it's slow progress due to a busy period of work and family commitments. However, I simply have to drop in to mention Mike Stock's latest release. Mike commented a few years back that he was desperately looking for an amazing girl singer he could write and produce pop songs for. For Me is exactly. The p...
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Kean Canter Mattowski: It's Like You Never Left At All: Taking a look at one of Mike Stock's favourite compositions
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Sticking up for Stock Aitken Waterman. Tuesday, 15 March 2016. It's Like You Never Left At All: Taking a look at one of Mike Stock's favourite compositions. I think from the point of view of what's personally given me greatest pleasure is one of the songs I did with Suzette Charles called "After You're Gone". it has a very strange spiritual lyric, it's not so much a direct pop song as some of the others.". Mike Stock, interviewed by Paul Smith (Roadblock fanzine, 1994). And I Should be So Lucky. As with ...
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Kean Canter Mattowski: January 2016
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Sticking up for Stock Aitken Waterman. Sunday, 31 January 2016. I'm Mandy - Buy Me! Why couldn't Stock Aitken Waterman break Mandy Smith in the UK? Over the years, Stock Aitken Waterman worked with a wide-range of vocalists, from top-flight legends through to the girl next door. Within this, there was a spectrum of singing ability, but even so, the sure hand of the three producers would often guarantee some modicum of success for their artists. This update of Terry. Is very much a curate's egg; whilst fe...
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Kean Canter Mattowski: Is Mike Stock's best chorus hidden away on a WRESTLING album???
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Sticking up for Stock Aitken Waterman. Thursday, 5 May 2016. Is Mike Stock's best chorus hidden away on a WRESTLING album? There are many varied opinions of the talents of Stock Aitken Waterman, but even their critics tend to grudgingly admit that they had an astonishing and enviable knack at coming up with amazingly catchy choruses. A straw poll of their best choruses would no doubt include such contenders as Too Many Broken Hearts. Never Gonna Give You Up. And Better The Devil You Know. Is a love song&...
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Meaningless Insights: Stock, Aitken &... Brazilian?? When Mike, Matt & Pete went bossa nova in 1986!
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015. Stock, Aitken &. Brazilian? When Mike, Matt and Pete went bossa nova in 1986! Perhaps the most surprising releases during this phase was a delightful trio of singles which saw the triumvirate tackle a bit of Brazilian bossa nova and latin jazz. First up was Mondo Kane - which appears to have been Stock Aitken Waterman undercover as a studio band, albeit fronted by the team's regular backing singers Dee Lewis and Coral Gordon - and their debut single, New York Afternoon.
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Meaningless Insights: March 2014
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Monday, March 3, 2014. Lost 80s Gems #1: "Am I Normal? This is a recurring feature which will look at obscure 80s records which I find interesting, even if no-one else will! And I'm kicking off with a bizarre, synth-laden belter: "Am I Normal? Which, when you hear it, will inspire the following response: "No, quite the opposite! Because this is a really. There were fears in the 1980s that we would reach a point where computers would write and create pop music without any human intervention. So, god knows...
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Kean Canter Mattowski: Bananarabba: when Mike & Pete went all Benny & Bjorn
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Sticking up for Stock Aitken Waterman. Monday, 19 September 2016. Bananarabba: when Mike and Pete went all Benny and Bjorn. A look at the two ABBA-styled tracks Stock and Waterman fashioned for Bananarama in 1992. As far as inspirations on the oeuvre of SAW goes, it's clear that there were various touchpoints which influenced Mike, Matt and Pete. And this has perhaps never been more overt than in the two ABBA-esque singles Mike Stock and Pete Waterman wrote and produced for Bananarama. Peaking outside th...
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Kean Canter Mattowski: You've Got A Friend: looking back at the 1990 Big Fun & Sonia charity single for Childline
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Sticking up for Stock Aitken Waterman. Sunday, 4 September 2016. You've Got A Friend: looking back at the 1990 Big Fun and Sonia charity single for Childline. To coincide with the launch of the For Me app, Childline asked Mike Stock to write and produce a record to help promote the app and support the charities involved. This record - which I'll come to later - is released on Friday 9 September 2016, but as SAW fans know, this is not the first record Mike Stock has made in support of Childline. Both acts...
