Baby You're a Star by Kathy Foley

Author:Kathy Foley [Foley, Kathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Maverick Publishing Ltd
Published: 2012-04-18T11:18:24+00:00

Meanwhile in Ireland, Louis and Paul Keogh parted ways. After Boyzone’s second No. 1 album, and another spate of hit singles, Polydor in the UK had begun to show a deep interest in Boyzone. Louis and Keogh had always had a tempestuous working relationship.

“Louis and I were still barking at each other,” recalls Keogh. Louis also knew Polydor in the UK had more influential connections than Polygram. This fact was also at the back of his mind.

“The way I looked at it was, I’d done it now for three years at this stage, and I thought: ‘Well, we have them signed, so why not get Polydor UK to do all the work, and I’ll still get the royalties’,” says Keogh.

“I was sick of travelling at that stage and to be honest with you, we at the Irish office would have had little or no deal-ings with them, but would still take money. So, it was a very profitable signing in the end for Polygram Ireland.

“It was one of the few acts that the actual record company royalties came into Ireland. U2’s artist royalties obviously come into Principle Management [owned by Paul McGuinness] but the record royalties would have gone to Island Records, nowhere near Ireland. So, we were the first record company to make a couple of million at least [out of Boyzone], so it was a very profitable time.”

While Keogh is critical of Boyzone in certain ways, he remembers his time working with the band with great fondness. He liked Boyzone, Reynolds and Louis.

“Every time somebody says ‘Boyzone’ to me I do actually laugh. That’s my first reaction because they were very funny. The one thing you couldn’t take away from them, that English acts hadn’t got, was that they had a great sense of humour and they had a great sense of devilment.

“They’d be tired and the next thing somebody would crack a joke and they’d be off again, and they’d wake up and they’d be gone messing. But they were, as somebody once said, ‘never dull, never boring, but never content’ and I thought that summed them up.”

Louis always believed Keogh had worked against him, and not with him but says Boyzone wouldn’t have happened without Keogh’s involvement.

“I was always into making the music and getting the acts, and if he had stuck to the marketing and stopped trying to control people, I think he would be in the music business now. He could have been very big in the music business but he did it his way,” says Louis.

Keogh, however, is unabashed about his handling of Boyzone and Louis.

“There was nobody in the world wanted a boyband from Ireland. We would never have got off the ground if we had rules and didn’t do all the things we did do.”

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