Bros

Sometimes a group or artist will come along blaze the charts for a year or two then disappear as quickly as they arrived. One group that fits that trend is Bros, a group of good looking boys with an image that girls loved and boys wanted to be.

The band formed in 1986 with Matt and Luke Goss backed by bass player Craig Logan and were mentored and managed by the Pet Shop Boys manager Tom Watkins. The band were best famous for there image and the short cropped hair with ripped jeans and beer bottle tags on there shoes. However, image aside that particular time saw the rise of teen pop and they came just at the right time along with the likes of New Kids on the Block, Brother Beyond and Curiosity killed the Cat.

The band were signed up to CBS records and there first release 'I owe you nothing' saw a limp entry just inside the top 100. The label and management ensued on a heavy promotion of the band and the next release 'When will I be famous' a song about young hopefuls trying to catch the eyes of agents was a huge hit and peaked at number 2 in the UK single charts.

Following that success, they released the debut album 'push' and this was a huge success and went to near the top of the UK album charts and also it had a number of singles that went on to top ten success. In early 1989 Craig Logan decided to leave the band and the twin brothers were now left to carry on the name. They carried on with the tour schedule and later on in 1989 they released there second album 'the time'. There confidence in there role saw them actually write some material for the album including the poignant song 'sister' about the tragic death of there sister Carolyn. Previously the song writing was left to Tom Watkins and Nicky Graham. The album was successful and produced a high number of hit singles in the UK.

By the very late eighties, the bros mania started to wain and although they continued to another album in the early nineties, musical tastes had changed and the fickle market saw them split the band.

The Goss brothers went on to future success with acting and Craig Logan went into writing and managing acts.

In terms of output the band released 9 singles in the 1980s with 8 hitting the top 10 with 'I owe you nothing' reaching number one in 1988 as re-release. They had four number two's with 'drop the boy', 'when will I be famous', 'Cat among the pigeons' and 'too much'. They also released two studio albums with 'push' reaching number two and 'the time' peaking at number four.

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