If there was one song and one artist who was ever going to survive for 30 years, it was Gloria Gaynor and her world-renowned disco classic, 'I Will Survive'.
Fame has never been something that is reserved in a tin under the counter for the most talented people. Instead of being a meritocracy, the world of fame is littered with near misses, governed by serendipity and populated by the bloody-minded and handsome.
When Reading-based indie rockers Does It Offend You, Yeah? chose We Smoke Fags as support for their 2007 tour, they must have known what they were doing.
"Poor old Dot. Well, East-Enders returns tomorrow at 8pm," says the BBC announcer but you are not really listening. Instead, you're ogling the sinewy tango dancers on the screen, looking immaculate in scarlet, "and now, it is time for Celebrity Badger Baiting and will Sally Gunnell survive another week in the sett?"
Precocious young talent makes first public appearance aged six, gets first whiff of alcohol at eight, is honking on a crack pipe at 10 and in rehab by 12, primed for an adolescence of redemption and a my wild years are behind me' autobiography. Then they spawn and away we go again.
As a member of one of the biggest boy bands of the early Naughties, Antony Costa was known throughout the world. He helped Blue clock up more than seven million record sales, three chart-topping albums, three UK number one singles, and two Brit Awards. The band even dueted with Stevie Wonder and Elton John.
