Paul Young

Paul Antony Young born 17 January 1956 is an English musician singer and songwriter Formerly the frontman of the shortlived bands Kat Kool the Kool Cats Streetband and QTips he became a teen idol with his solo success in the 1980s His hit singles include Love of the Common People Wherever I Lay My Hat Come Back and Stay Every Time You Go Away and Everything Must Change all reaching the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart Released in 1983 his debut album No Parlez was the first of three UK numberone albums Youngs smooth yet soulful voice belongs to a genre known as blueeyed soul He won a Brit Award for Best British Male in 1985 and his hit Every Time You Go Away reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and won Best British Video at the 1986 Brit Awards Performing on the 1984 charity single Do They Know Its Christmas which included singing the opening lines Young played Live Aid held at Wembley Stadium London in July 1985 He sang the Crowded House track Dont Dream Its Over at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute in 1988 In 1992 he sang Radio Ga Ga with the surviving members of Queen at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert Since the mid1990s Young has performed with the band Los Pacaminos Paul Young was born in Luton Bedfordshire England He has an older brother and a younger sister As a youth after school he played football for the Vauxhall Motors factory where he worked In his spare time he played in several bands as a bass guitarist The first group for which Young became lead singer was Kat Kool the Kool Kats In the late 1970s he joined Streetband who had one top 20 hit in the UK with the humorous novelty track Toast In December 1979 Streetband disbanded The exStreetbanders added new recruits Dave Lathwell on guitar and Baz Watts on drums and became QTips In addition a four piece brass section was created QTipss first rehearsals took place in November 1979 Their first concert was on 18 November 1979 at the Queens Arms Hotel in Harrow This gig was followed by another at the Horn of Plenty in St Albans By 1 April 1980 the band had recorded two tracks SYSLJFM The Letter Song and Having a Party both recorded at the Livingstone Studios in Barnet Constant touring and concert appearances had built a strong fan base by mid1981 The professionalism of the band had attracted the attention of several record labels with the late Mickie Most RAK Records confirming on BBC Radio 1s Round Table programme that QTips are easily the best live band working at the moment In August 1980 the British music magazine NME reported that QTips had released their debut eponymous album QTips appeared on BBC Televisions In Concert Rock Goes to College and The Old Grey Whistle Test in the latter part of 1981 QTips also opened for the J Geils Band the Knack Thin Lizzy Bob Marley and the Average White Band The band toured with After the Fire and supported the Who on their 12date UK tour in 1980 In 1981 QTips played the Montreux Jazz Festival Source Article Paul Young from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA