In The Swing Of It

Product Information

Roman is doing really well hosting the breakfast show on Capital FM and Harley runs her own media company. Holliman intended to train as a horse riding instructor, [2] but after she developed hay fever at the age of 18 and with nothing else to do, her then boyfriend Andrew Ridgeley suggested she come and dance while he and his friend George Michael's band played a local gig. There’s only one potential family problem for Martin and Shirlie: persuading their son to play the album on his Capital FM show. Martin and Shirlie Kemp have announced plans to release their first ever album together, something they both believe their late friend George Michael “would have loved”. They have both had successful music careers – Martin as the pin-up bass player in 80s supergroup Spandau Ballet, while Shirlie was the petite blonde backing singer in Wham!

For someone who had such a successful career back in the day – both as a backing singer for close friends George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in Wham! It was thought they would never perform again, but in 2009 they did just that as they reformed and went on tour much to the delight of fans.Spandau Ballet went on to have a great deal of success in the New Romantic era, with four of their albums reaching the top ten of the UK Albums Chart. Read more about the condition New: An item that is still in its original shrink wrap from the manufacturer and the original manufacturer’s seal (if applicable) has not been removed. Shirlie, 57, gave up her pop career as one half of female duo Pepsi and Shirlie (she’s still best friends with Pepsi DeMacque) to be a full-time mum – daughter Harley and son Roman are now 30 and 26 – while Martin went on to become a successful actor, starring opposite brother Gary in hit Brit flick The Krays and playing gangster Steve Owen on EastEnders from 1998 until 2002.

Martin and Shirlie Kemp have announced details of their new album In the Swing of It, set for release on Friday 22nd November via Sony Music. who went on to form Pepsi and Shirlie with fellow bandmate Pepsi DeMacque – and in doing so made the puffball skirt an 80s fashion statement. S: It’s traumatising to walk into an intensive care unit and see someone you don’t even recognise because they’re so poorly.For Shirlie and I the words actually mean something – there is a spark there, which is what got everyone excited. What we have as a couple is rare,” acknowledges Shirlie, sat with Martin in a meeting room at their record company Sony. Eventually the band was renamed Spandau Ballet and Kemp left his printing job to concentrate on the band full-time. Following In The Swing Of It, Shirlie has even been persuaded to sing live with Martin, performing three shows early next year as part of musical package Big Band Broadway . It’s no coincidence that one of the highlights of In The Swing Of It is Martin and Shirlie’s take on Nice Work If You Can Get It.

Hearing her speak of the exhaustion, Martin jokingly chips in: “Maybe next time I will be appreciated more when I say I am off working.

It's Torn, although short,is a beautiful piece, the gravelly vocal accompanied by acoustic guitar and a light tinkling of piano. The couple stayed friends with George throughout his life – Shirlie even ran the first incarnation of his online fanclub. I'd never done something so quickly that felt so right, and I realised how happy I felt singing again.

Shirlie added `I feel happy when I listen to this music, I hope people dance and sing along to the album when they are in their homes doing the cleaning or cooking the Sunday roast’.It's swing music which is such great music to listen to and it's glamorous and it's mainly about our relationship. When I had Harley, Martin was busy working and I thought, ‘You can’t have two parents doing that work.