Tony Blair is heading for a landslide at the 1997 general election, signalling the start of a new political era. For the nation’s boy bands, change is also in the air. With the implosion of pioneers Take That, their rivals East 17 see the way clear to clean up in the charts.\n\nBut after a notorious radio interview in which frontman Brian Harvey confesses to taking 12 ecstasy pills in one night, the band Five, capitalising on the new 'lad culture' of the time, are rapidly catapulted into an unknown world of fame and idolatry.
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Series 1: Episode 3
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Series 1: Episode 2
Tony Blair is heading for a landslide at the 1997 general election, signalling the start of a new political era. For the nation’s boy bands, change is also in the air. Wit ...
23-11-2024
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 1
It’s 1990. Poll tax rioters are setting the nation’s capital ablaze, and prime minister Margaret Thatcher is being ousted by her own MPs. But a welcome distraction c ...
23-11-2024
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 1
It’s 1990. Poll tax rioters are setting the nation’s capital ablaze, and prime minister Margaret Thatcher is being ousted by her own MPs. But a welcome distraction c ...
23-11-2024
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 2
Tony Blair is heading for a landslide at the 1997 general election, signalling the start of a new political era. For the nation’s boy bands, change is also in the air. Wit ...
23-11-2024
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 3
It's the summer of 2001, and for several of Britain’s biggest boybands, life in the limelight is coming to an end. Despite almost 20 million albums sold between them, East ...
30-11-2024
BBC 2