Pop Idol

...in the '00s, it's in the way it has adopted British methodology. Our primary pop starmaker is American Idol, a gloss on the U.K.'s Pop Idol; one of the decade's two defining music publications, Blender, was a cross between Maxim and Q. So it...

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...- called The Hits - is in the shops now, and features all of Will's hit tracks since he shot to fame by winning X Factor predecessor Pop Idol back in 2002. His first single was a cover of Westlife's Evergreen - and Will told us it...

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...(09) American Idol runner-up has been named Breakout Star Of The Year by Out magazine and Brit Young, who won U.K. reality show Pop Idol in 2002, was branded the gay celebrity most likely to win a Grammy Award. Lambert, who 'came out' as...

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...firmly in the bag but was by no means the global superstar and household name he is today." Cowell's first television venture was Pop Idol in 2001. From that talent show he developed The X Factor in 2003, America's Got Talent in 2006 with...

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...of stars. They had celebrity juries (including 'Mr Nasty' types like Tony Hatch and Nina Myskow) and public votes. What Cowell (and Pop Idol creator Simon Fuller) realised in the early part of this decade was that the public was...

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Will Young has said competing on a show like The X Factor or Pop Idol is the perfect apprenticeship for a music career. The Leave Right Now singer insisted: "I've always said I think Pop Idol was the best apprenticeship ever, because you...

In this article: Will Young, Leave Right Now, and The X Factor

...feels like a 'proper' actor with roles in Miss Marple and Skins Will Young is releasing a greatest hits album seven years after the Pop Idol win which launched his pop career. It features classic tracks such as Leave Right Now and Light My...

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...Evergreen on his new greatest hits album. The 30-year-old star stunned everyone in 2002 when he beat Gareth Gates to the title of Pop Idol, and he went on to release the single written for the winner. And Will insisted it was easy to put...

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...X Factor is a "freak and geek show" that has nothing to do with talent and is more concerned with promoting Cheryl Cole, according to former Pop Idol judge Pete Waterman. Pete Waterman said The X Factor is "a bigger promotion for the judges...

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Last updated at 1:08 AM on 03rd November 2009 In our health quiz this week, pop music mogul Pete Waterman, 62, talks about his love of chips, his own male menopause and the illness that could have caused him to go blind. Pete Waterman:...

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