28 Aug '07 - 218 W - + 16 - 8 Matt Bianco - How To Be A Pop Star

Here’s another bit from the Collingbourne ‘80s Archives. This comes from an interview I did with Mark Reilly of Matt Bianco. If you are a budding pop star looking for hints on how to start a career, here’s a few tips...

“It’s all very well practising endlessly in your dad’s garage, annoying the neighbours, but you’ll never get yourself a wall full of gold discs until you get yourself out in public.
“I used to bash away in the garage with my friend, Tim. By this stage I’d managed to learn about three chords on the guitar and felt this was plenty to get myself into a punk band. So that’s exactly what I did.
“Of course, no new band will make an impression unless they’re original. So we wrote our own songs. They were terrible songs. But at least they were original terrible songs. We got our first gigs simply by going along to pubs and students’ unions and saying ‘Book us.’ When they said ‘No.’ We’d say, ‘We’re cheap.’ Sometimes it worked. Sometimes it didn’t.”

Matt Bianco on MySpace
And here’s their big hit, Get Out of Your Lazy Bed on Top Of The Pops...

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