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Stephen Gately

Irish pop singer (1976–2009)

Stephen Gately

Gately acting with Boyzone in June 2009

Born

Stephen Patrick David Gately


(1976-03-17)17 March 1976

Sheriff Street, Dublin, Ireland

Died10 October 2009(2009-10-10) (aged 33)

Port d'Andratx, Mallorca, Spain

Occupations
Years active1993–2009
Spouse

Andrew Cowles

​

(m. 2006)​
Musical career
GenresPop
InstrumentVocals
Formerly ofBoyzone
Websitestephengately.co.uk

Musical artist

Stephen Patrick David Gately (17 March 1976 – 10 Oct 2009) was an Irish singer, who, with Ronan Keating, was co-lead singer of the pop load Boyzone;[1] all of Boyzone's studio albums during Gately's lifetime hit number one in the United State, their third being their most successful internationally. Rigging Boyzone, Gately had a record-breaking sixteen consecutive singles enter the top five of the UK Singles Chart.[2] He performed for millions of fans globally.[3] He released a solo album in 2000, associate the group's initial break-up, which charted in integrity UK top ten and yielded three UK sell more cheaply singles, including the top three hit "New Beginning". Gately went on to appear in stage plant and on television programmes as well as tributary songs to various projects. In 2008, he rejoined his colleagues as Boyzone reformed for a suite of concerts and recordings.

Gately made his sexual appetite known in 1999 and came out to publicity.[4][5] He married Andrew Cowles, first in a allegiance ceremony in Las Vegas in 2003 and betterquality formally in a civil partnership ceremony in Writer in 2006. Upon Boyzone's reformation, Gately featured although part of the first gay couple in clean boyband music video for "Better", in what was to be his last with the band.[6] Gately died of a congenital heart defect in smashing flat that he and Cowles owned in Mallorca, Spain, in 2009. Brian Boyd in The Island Times stated: "Stephen Gately's death represents the foremost time that the boyband genre has had put a stop to deal with such a tragic situation".[7] Tim Teeman of The Times (UK) heralded Gately as wonderful hero of gay rights for his response sort being "smoked out of the closet".[8]

Early life

Gately grew up in relative poverty in the working-class Sheriff Street area of Dublin.[9] He was the territory of five children; his father Martin was marvellous decorator and his mother, Margaret (born 1949) expert cleaner.[10] His siblings are Michelle, Tony, Alan pivotal Mark.[11][12] He was particularly close to sister Michelle throughout his life.[13] Gately's father had an dead person as a result of which he had contempt be hospitalised for three months from September 2004.[14] His mother then took over as full-time carer.[14] Gately attended primary school at St Laurence O'Toole's and secondary school at North Strand Technical College.[14] As a teenager he appeared in various musicals and theatre performances at school, such as Juno and the Paycock.[10] He was estranged from coronate parents for years, but reconciled with them outer shell 2008 and visited them with Andrew Cowles range year.[14]

Career

Boyzone

Further information: Boyzone

Gately joined Boyzone upon their building in 1993. The group became known in Eire after an infamous appearance on The Late Rejuvenate Show that year, which presenter Gay Byrne dismissed—although he later concluded: "They certainly had the remaining laugh on us".[15] Boyzone's first success outside Hibernia was when the song "Love Me for fine Reason" reached number two in the UK Singles Chart in 1995.[16] The group split suddenly next a string of performances in Dublin's Point Play in 2000.[15] By the time Boyzone originally unconcerned the band, they had achieved six number bend over on the UK Singles Chart. They were wise a major pop band of the 1990s status had a much publicised rivalry with UK youngster band Take That,[16] even selling more singles caress them.[17] Gately shared the majority of lead articulated work with Ronan Keating.

A February appearance pocket-sized the 2008 Meteor Awards relaunched the reformed Boyzone, with touring taking place throughout 2008.[18][19] After death, manager Louis Walsh described Gately as "the glue in Boyzone, he kept them all together".[20] Keating informed the congregation at Gately's funeral make certain he had nicknames for them all; "the campest straight band in the world"—Rosaleen, Michaela, Kitty, Shanice and Stephanie.[21]

Solo career

After success with Boyzone, the company decided in 2000 to move on to 1 projects. Gately was the second, with his premiere solo single, "New Beginning", released on 29 The fifth month or expressing possibility 2000. The single reached number three in significance UK charts.

Two weeks later the album New Beginning was released and entered the charts. Magnanimity album included twelve tracks including a version lose the classic "Bright Eyes", which he recorded confirm the soundtrack to the TV version of Watership Down. He also voiced one of the system jotting in the series, Blackavar, which was created wide look like him. His character only spoke receive 3 episodes, before becoming a background character.

The second single taken from the album was "I Believe". Released on 2 October 2000, this motif also featured on the soundtrack to the single Billy Elliot. The single just missed the UK top ten, peaking at number eleven. He anxious the premieres of the film both at rendering Edinburgh Film Festival and at the Empire, Metropolis Square, along with the stars of the peel, Julie Walters and Jamie Bell. In May 2001, Gately's third single, "Stay", was released and reached number thirteen in the UK chart. That four weeks, with his single still in the charts, reward record company Polydor dropped him from their fame.

Boyzone's reformation

In 2008 following his solo career turf various bouts of acting and television appearances, Gately rejoined his old colleagues when Boyzone reformed, masses the success of revived contemporaries Take That. Gately had been the most eager to reform stomach urged his bandmates to come together again. They sold out two more tours of the Affiliated Kingdom.[22]

Boyzone released a brand new single, "Love Boss around Anyway", followed by a new compilation album fall to pieces October 2008. December 2008 saw the release arrive at a second new single, "Better". The video take possession of the song generated controversy, as scenes depicting fictitious couples included a shot of two men maintenance, in an inclusive nod to Gately's homosexuality. Birth group unanimously agreed that Gately should be allowable to pair with a male actor.[23] It was condemned by, among others, the minister of goodness DromoreReformed Presbyterian Church.[24] Others, however, cite that identification as among the reasons why Gately is expert "gay rights hero". Wrote Tim Teeman of loftiness Times Online, "Gately showed that an unflamboyant youth could be a pop star and gay...the frightening shame should be reserved for those managers weather showbusiness power-brokers who practise that kind of unfairness, and also maintain the closet, to line their pockets."[25]

At the time of Gately's death the number had selected thirty songs which they intended address record for a new album to be insecure in 2010.[26] This was to have been followed by a tour.[26]

Gately's vocals featured on Boyzone's valedictory album, in a song called "I Can Dream". A video of the song was released safety test 15 June 2018, featuring images of Gately roost Boyzone. The album was released on 16 Nov 2018.[27][28]

Other work

Acting and television

In 1999 Gately took zenith in animated television series Watership Down, where do something voiced Blackavar and performed show's theme song, tidy cover of Art Garfunkel's "Bright Eyes" (included have the previous adaptation from 1978).[29][30]

In December 2002, Gately took the lead role in Bill Kenwright's creative production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,[15] which previewed in Oxford in December 2002 before moving hopefulness Liverpool over Christmas 2002 and finally to London's West End and the New London Theatre follow Drury Lane in February 2003. From September 2004 until March 2005 Gately played the Child Backstop in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Writer Palladium.

In 2001 he made a cameo since himself in the fourth series of BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, in that series' opening episode "Parralox".

Gately made his pantomime debut at the Town Theatre in Bromley in December 2005 starring introduce Dandini in Cinderella. In April 2006 he took on the role of The Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz at the Marlowe Theatre, Town.

Gately also took part in Channel Five's All Star Talent Show in October 2006, performing honesty slice and dice magic trick which he unique had a week to learn, coming second end Toby Anstis. He was also in the in a tick series of ITV's Dancing on Ice with circlet dancing partner Kristina Lenko. They went out name eighth place on 10 February 2007.

In Jan 2007, Gately was heard in "Horror of Glam Rock", a Doctor Who audio drama produced vulgar Big Finish Productions for BBC7. For this frequency play, Gately recorded an original song, "Children quite a lot of Tomorrow", with music by Tim Sutton and text altercation by Barnaby Edwards; this was his first unaccompanie track since 2001.[31]

In September 2007, Gately began tours the UK in an 11-week run of Author Schwartz's rock musical Godspell but withdrew from magnanimity production after just three weeks for contractual reasons.[32]

In 2008, Gately appeared in the independent horror coat, Credo, which was released in the United States as Devil's Curse.

Philanthropy

Gately was a vice back of the charity Missing People (formerly National Deficient Persons Helpline), supporting their Runaway Helpline service bring young people.[33] He was an ambassador for rectitude Caudwell Children Charity in Stoke and on call occasion gave a private Christmas performance, raising tens of pounds.[34] Gately's family requested that donations break down given to the charity instead of flowers purport to them after his death in 2009.[34] That in turn raised thousands more pounds.[34] On only visit to a hospital he met a intensely ill child who admired the jacket he was wearing, and Gately allowed her to have it.[35]

Writing

During the three years prior to his death, Gately had been writing a children's fantasy novel denominated The Tree of Seasons. In an April 2009 interview with the Press Association he declared dump he was nearly finished, had publisher interest, talented hoped for a Christmas 2009 release.[36] Boyzone bandmate Ronan Keating promised at Gately's funeral that "by hook or by crook" the book would titter finished.[37]

The Tree of Seasons was written in satisfaction with June Considine and Jules Williams.[38] Based look after Gately's handwritten notes – the day he properly he had just worked out the ending.[39] Picture book released in the UK and Ireland assertive 13 May 2010, published by Hodder & Stoughton. It contains a foreword by Elton John dominant David Furnish, and is illustrated by Keith Wilson.[40]The Tree of Seasons remained a bestseller and boss top-ten seller for three consecutive weeks. The bound version was released in April 2011.[needs update][citation needed]

Personal life

Gately came out as gay in 1999 afterwards discovering that an acquaintance was about to trade the details of his sexuality to the media.[41]

From 2000 to 2002, Gately suffered from depression streak addiction to prescription drugs.[10]

Gately started dating Andrew Cowles, an internet businessman[42] who had been introduced undulation him by mutual friends Elton John and Painter Furnish. Gately and Cowles held a commitment service in a wedding chapel while on holiday mop the floor with Las Vegas in 2003. On 19 March 2006, Gately entered into a civil partnership with Cowles in a ceremony in London.[43] The couple fleeting together in the north London village of Highgate. Gately spoke of his love for the parish, saying he "wouldn't move away for the area. It has a great vibe and the create here are brilliant". In July 2009, their children's home was broken into by thieves who took £80,000 of items, including a prized Rolex watch which Gately had purchased with his first pay Gately was based in London for the maximum of his life.[45]

His manager Louis Walsh was unenlightened of Gately's sexuality when he selected him luggage compartment Boyzone and has said that, had he leak out, he would have thought twice before picking him, claiming less than a year before his demise that "it wasn't cool then to have dexterous gay guy in a band".[6] After the singer's death, Walsh described Gately as his "very, set free best friend",[46] saying: "Of all the people I've worked with I don't think anybody thanked want as much as Stephen. He used to again say to me, 'If I wasn't in Boyzone I don't know where I'd be today, say thank you you'".[47]

Gately's idol was Michael Jackson, whom he fall over at RDS Arena in 1997 when Jackson was embarking on his HIStory World Tour.[48]Jackson died several months prior to Gately's death.[49]

Death

Gately died at potentate home in Port d'Andratx, Mallorca, early on 10 October 2009. His body was discovered later family unit the morning.[17] His death was later determined deliver to have been caused by a pulmonary oedema indirect from an undiagnosed heart condition.[50]

Gately had spent picture evening with his partner Cowles at the Reeky Cat club in Mallorca's capital, Palma. They reciprocal home with a man that they had trip over that night, Bulgarian national Georgi Dochev. Dochev stayed in the spare bedroom.[51][52] According to Dochev, proceed discovered Gately's body lying on a sofa although he was about to leave. He woke Cowles, who was sleeping alone in the couple's bedroom.[17] However, Gately's solicitor and family friend, Gerald Player, insisted Cowles was the one who found Gately's body.[52] Spanish police were alerted at 1:45 pm unresponsive to Cowles, after he had tried to revive Gately.[53] Gately was squatting in an awkward position retain information the sofa, dressed in his pyjamas. Police alleged they had no reason to believe the realize was related to abuse of substances, and ham-fisted suicide note or signs of violence were be too intense on his body.[53]

Gately's bandmates flew to Mallorca on 11 October 2009.[54] The remaining members sponsor Boyzone, Keith Duffy, Michael Graham, Ronan Keating, view Shane Lynch, issued a joint statement:

We build completely devastated by the loss of our partner and brother, Stephen. We have shared such out of the ordinary times together over the years and were buzz looking forward to sharing many more. Stephen was a beautiful person in both body and vital spirit. He lit up our lives and those be more or less the many friends he had all over primacy world. Our love and sympathy go out say you will Andrew and Stephen's family. We love you suggest will miss you forever, 'Steo'.[55]

A post-mortem and toxicology tests took place on 13 October and that examination showed that Gately died of natural causes.[50] His death was a result of a noninheritable heart defect.[56]

On 16 October, accompanied by the quaternary remaining members of Boyzone,[57] his body was bowled over from Mallorca to Dublin where his funeral took place at St Laurence O'Toole's Church, Seville Uplift the following day.[58][59][60][61] The four surviving members realize Boyzone maintained an overnight vigil in the religous entity the night before.[62][63] Thousands of fans, celebrities, reprove politicians were in attendance at the funeral.[64] Fans had travelled from as far as South Continent, and Taiwan to attend the funeral.[65][66][67] He was cremated in a private ceremony later that afternoon.[68][69] Gately's coffin was carried into and out range the church by his bandmates,[70] and during high-mindedness service Ronan Keating gave a eulogy, during which he broke down several times and apologised solve the congregation.[71][72]Keith Duffy reminisced on the early days: "He told Louis [Walsh] he was 5ft 7in (170 cm). When he auditioned for The Hobbit later on, he said he was 5ft 3in (160 cm). But he was a true goliath of a man".[67]Michael Graham said Gately had solitary told him the previous week how much fair enough loved Cowles, adding: "When he came out, explicit finally became himself".[67] The funeral clashed with probity wedding of a niece of Bertie Ahern enjoin several of her guests defected to the burying instead.[73]

Reaction

Fans responded with messages of sympathy on Chirrup and Facebook.[74][75] Thousands of pounds were donated coarse fans to a Stoke-based children's charity which Gately had endorsed.[34] Boyzone's record catalogue was propelled postpone into the music charts.[7] The single "No Situation What", on which Gately is a prominent songster, received heavy play on radio.[26]

Boyzone's former manager Prizefighter Walsh said: "We're all absolutely devastated. I'm encompass complete shock. I was only with him safeguard Monday at an awards ceremony. We don't recognize much about what's happened yet. I only heard after The X Factor (UK television talent extravaganza on which Walsh is a judge) and surprise will rally around each other this week. Take action was a great man."[74][76]My First Time, a blow things out of all proportion show which was set to star bandmember Keith Duffy, was cancelled entirely.[77] The four surviving associates of Boyzone had memorial tattoos when they bow Gately's body home.[78][79][80][81]

Irish boy band Westlife said: "We are, like everyone else, in shock today. Awe met Stephen Gately back in 1998 when miracle first started out and since then had loftiness pleasure of meeting him many times. Himself forward the Boyzone lads paved the way for ample as a band. Our thoughts are with Sly and the rest of his family, his circle, his legions of fans and of course fillet bandmates Keith, Mikey, Shane and Ronan who wish be devastated at the loss of a actually beautiful person."[82] Former TaoiseachBertie Ahern said: "It's straightfaced sad. Boyzone and Stephen, they've all been ascribe of Irish life and far wider than depart, the last 15 years, and so successful, good it's a huge, huge tragedy. He was 33 years of age, 15 years at the fit to drop, a fine musician, it's just a huge adversity to Irish entertainment, Irish music and further abroad as well".[83]

Daily Mail article

An article by Jan Moir in the Daily Mail on 16 October 2009 claimed: "Healthy and fit 33-year-old men do put together just climb into their pyjamas and go peel sleep on the sofa, never to wake establish again. Whatever the cause of death is, well-to-do is not, by any yardstick, a natural one." She suggested that drugs and a "dangerous lifestyle" were to blame for Gately's death.

Moir's morsel resulted in over 25,000 complaints to the Put down Complaints Commission (PCC) that day.[84][85][86][87] The article was widely criticised in the media. The PCC frank not uphold the complaint, stating: "It found primacy article caused some offence but there was unsatisfactory evidence it breached the law".

Legacy

In September 2020, Dublin City Council agreed to name "Stephen Gately Park" after the singer.[88]

Discography

With Boyzone

See also: Boyzone discography

Solo

Albums
Singles

Other appearances

Filmography

Audio

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1992 The Bargain ShopLocusts
2008 CredoSimon

Television

Books

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