Ronan Keating has revealed how Boyzone would always try and fly home to spend the night in their own beds at the beginning of their fame.
With most of the band still in their teens during the early years, he told a new BBC documentary about how they wanted the stability of going home.
The BBC’s Top of the Pops: Story of 1995 tracks how Boyzone shot to fame on the heels of the British boyband, Take That.
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The Boyzone singer says their fivesome was a less slick, more down-to-earth version of the boyband.
He said: “Boyzone were kind of your everyman boyband and I think that was part of the charm.
“We were like the lads you’d meet in the street.
“They were all-singing, all-dancing, slick-as, they had all the moves. Us, if you saw us dancing it looked like a corner of a nightclub”, he joked.
TV plugger, Sam Wright, who booked the Irish band on various UK shows, said Boyzone hoped “they could be Take That”.
“Boyzone had auditioned to be the Irish Take That, to be honest with you.
“In those days, pop ruled, you could break an act just by them being on the telly at the time, I looked at them and I knew I could get them on telly.
“Ronan was sort of together, the organised one, Stephen was the one all the girls liked, Shane and Keith were two lads having a laugh, and Mikey wanted to be Sting.”
Peter Loraine, the editor of the influential Top Of The Pops magazine in 1995, said the Irish band’s formation came at the right time
He said: “The timing Boyzone was just so impeccable.
“Take That at their absolute peak, able to choose what they will and won’t do and there is only so much time and they’ve done it all before and they are nearly over it.
“And in came Boyzone…we’ll do anything, we’re new, we want to be famous.”
Ronan Keating remembers a crazy schedule in the early days, but the band were always booked on flights home.
“It was busy, it was mad.
“We didn’t really get to enjoy the success because we were just on to the next thing, the next country, the next performance.
“They were long days and every night we would fly home to Dublin just to be in our beds for the night or for our Ma to make us a cup of tea or breakfast or whatever it was.”
He remembers the fivesome being “very content with our roles in the band”.
“We’re still very close today. We joke about it
“I’ve never felt an underlining jealousy or anything like that.
“Stephen and I were very close, there is not a lot of human beings on the planet that knew me like he knew me and vice versa so I think we were very close in that regard.
“(It was) amazing, we were living the dream, we were travelling around the world singing and dancing, it was incredible, with me best mates.”
Top of the Pops: Story of 1995 will be shown on BBC Two on Saturday, April 16.
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