Blue (band)

Blue
Blue during an appearance at Manchester Pride in August 2011
General information
Genre (s)	Pop , R&B
founding	2001 , 2009
resolution	2005
Founding members
singing	Duncan James
singing	Antony Costa
singing	Simon Webbe
singing	Lee Ryan

Blue is one of London dating British pop - boy band .

Band history

2001 to 2005

Blue at a concert in Salerno (2005)

In 2001 Duncan "Dunc" Matthew James Inglis and Antony "Ant" Daniel Costa met at the British talent show Pop Idol and decided to start a band together. They formed a quartet with Lee Ryan and Simon "Sy" Solomon Webbe .

With the first song All Rise , the band immediately reached number four in the British single charts in May 2001. The video for the single was shot on March 29, 2001. Blue had her first television appearance on April 16, 2001 on the Big Breakfast Show , her first live appearance on April 28, 2001 on SMTV. With the next single, a cover version of the next classic Too Close , the quartet had their first number one hit of their career. Another followed with the release If You Come Back in November 2001.

In 2002, after the other songs Fly By and One Love , they landed their biggest hit to date with Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word . The title is a cover version of the title by Elton John , who sang along with the remake by Blue himself. The title stayed in the top ten for several weeks and reached number one in Great Britain.

In 2003 Guilty was released . In 2004 they recorded the old Wonder hit Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours with Stevie Wonder and Angie Stone . Curtain Falls was supposed to be their last single in 2004, but in 2005 they followed Get Down on It , a cover version of Kool & The Gang , on which they were supported by Lil 'Kim , and Only Words I Know , which was possibly their most unsuccessful song. because it only made it into the top 50.

Solo projects and start-ups

Blue at the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Duesseldorf , Germany on May 14, 2011.

From 2005 to 2009 Blue took a break to take care of solo projects.

Lee Ryan made his solo debut with Army of Lovers . In October 2005 the first solo album was also released in Germany after it had been available in Great Britain since August. Turn Your Car Around reached number 41 in Germany and number 20 in the USA.

Simon Webbe also pursued solo paths: After his first single Lay Your Hands , he brought out the album Sanctuary . His second album Grace is also available in Germany.

Antony Costa has also advanced his solo career. He released his first single Do You Ever Think of Me in February 2006 .

Duncan James brought out his first own release with the singer Keedie in December 2004 - still in the days of Blue -: I Believe My Heart for the musical The Woman in White . His first single for his solo album is called Sooner or Later and was released on June 2, 2006. On June 30, 2006, he released his album Future Past . In August of the same year, Duncan published Can't Stop a River . Since January 2008 he has been on stage for the second time in London's West End as lawyer Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago .

In April 2009 the band officially confirmed their reunion. In May 2011 she represented her home country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf with the title I Can , where she took eleventh place with 100 points. In 2012 the band contributed Hurt Lovers as the theme song to the film Ending the Line .

Discography

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Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
2001	All Rise Innocent Records	DE68 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (68 weeks)UK	First published: November 23, 2001 Sales: + 1,260,000
2002	One Love Innocent Records	DE15th gold (35 weeks)DE	AT19 (32 weeks) AT	CH31 gold (33 weeks)CH	UK1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (30 weeks)UK	First published: November 1, 2002 Sales: + 1,370,000
2003	Guilty Innocent Records	DE8th gold (38 weeks)DE	AT13 (17 weeks) AT	CH12 gold (43 weeks)CH	UK1 × 2 Double platinum (24 weeks)UK	First published: November 3, 2003 Sales: + 720,000
2013	Roulette Blueworld / Island Records	DE14 (5 weeks) DE	AT30 (1 week) AT	CH31 (3 weeks) CH	UK13 (3 weeks) UK	First published: January 25, 2013
2015	Colors Sony Music	-	-	-	UK13 (3 weeks) UK	First published: March 6, 2015

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1. ↑ Hurt Lovers on universal-music.de

Web links

Commons : Blue  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: blue  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Official German-language website of Blue