That's an expensive shag. Sometimes there are performers that hook you from the first time you see them. The disco era was one of the best times for pop music - ever. It was an era that encouraged fun, glamour and excess.
It would have been good if Dad could have been here to enjoy at least some of my success. As a judge of talent, Pete Waterman is one of the best, because he's not sitting there as a record producer. He's sitting there as a true lover of music and talent--a fan.
Pete is TV gold. If the public don't warm to your personality, you're out. The music industry requires that you have a larger-than-life personality. One minute, you're driving the from Crewe to London, and three months later, you're on stage in front of millions of people. No matter how bad things are, if you've got the guts and the determination, you can fulfill your dream. First impressions count in this business.
Even if you have a voice like Barbra Streisand , you won't get very far if you're ordinary. In her day, Madonna was one of the most innovative artists in the world. She had that instinct to know what producers to work with, and how and when to reinvent herself. She is a legend, but now she's a mother and a wife, she's respectable.
The world I was born into was very different from the way the world is now. Tom Jones has that ability to appeal to both kids and older people. Its an epidemic. America is a huge country with a wonderful tradition of superb singers. Performances without the critique just doesn't work. It heightens the appeal of the show. Someone who is focused, talented, and a hard worker in every respect.
You know when you're in the presence of a star. As a record executive based in England, I was trained to think of America as the ultimate market. Like so many artists, I felt [ Paula Abdul ] was a mix of arrogance and insecurity. As far as kids are concerned, I'm brilliant with them, as long as they belong to other people and I don't have to be with them 24 hours a day. The people on the bottom rung look up to those at the top, and the ones at the top invariably look down on those at the bottom.
This was a business you had to teach yourself, and if you were going to succeed, you had to take risks. I am a very good judge. We look for those with the greatest potential; the singers and performers who could be molded and encouraged. We now live in a fame epidemic. There has never been another time when so many young people sought celebrity status.
Every magazine available portrays a lifestyle that looks great. My job is to point out to all the hopefuls the reality of what they're after.
If you want that lifestyle you have to have talent. And you have to realize you may have to work for it. On the first day of any show you are conscious of the lights and cameras and the fact that you are on TV. By the second day, after listening to wannabes who can't sing quite in time, you don't care.
You just want them to leave the room. A bad singer who believes in himself has a different look in his eyes from that of a bad singer who comes in to make a mockery of the audition process. The latter has a funny little smile, or a weird kind of bravado. Having worked in the music business for 35 years, its probably the funniest business on Earth. When I watch Top of the Pops now, I don't find anything funny in it anymore. Our main job is to make an entertaining TV show, which honestly reflects the pop music industry.
If we ever get it totally right, though, no one will watch. It helps if you can write your own songs if you want to be a singer. If you can't it's all the more harder. I am never just looking for a talent, but rather a talent with a head start. I tend to think its the song that's more powerful than the performer. It's a ""Catch" situation: without the hit songs, artists don't have careers, but without careers, they won't have access to the hit songs.
New artists need to be smart about their careers and take the path of lesser resistance when first establishing their names. I have little patience for anybody who isn't prepared to put in hour days. There's a myth in this business that if you don't hit by the time you're 25, you'll never make it. No one is governed by age. I love anyone who can reinvent themselves. You can reinvent yourself not just through image, but through great pop songs. When you meet Elton John , you're meeting a star with a capital S.
He is what pop music is all about. Once you devote yourself to a pop career, you'll spend much of your time in audition rooms. There was only one Michael Jackson , thank God. Eye contact is a sign of confidence. Grovelling is an act of desperation.
Someone with experience in the music business might be able to see something in you that you don't see in yourself. Many stars fall from their perch so rapidly they lose their dignity along with their reputation. Pop culture distorts fame and breeds a certain sense of entitlement.
Writing a hit song is one of the hardest jobs on Earth. If you can find an artist who is a gifted songwriter - hallelujah! They're as rare as the Loch Ness Monster. Take a picture to prove they exist. If you forget about the people who put you on top, you'll become unglued.
The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession. In this business, there's always someone younger and hungrier coming up behind you. Staying famous is by no means guaranteed.
Being 1 in the charts used to mean something. The pop charts have lost the plot that made them so exciting to watch.
Oasis made bad behavior newsworthy. Artists are so perfectly handled and manicured that they don't have anything to say except careerist babble. I don't see any personalities anymore. If I was 17 and a glamour model knocked on my bedroom door, I'd have definitely invited her in. Barbra Streisand can be out of the news for five years, but if she announced tomorrow that she was holding a concert, it would sell out faster than any concert on Earth.
She's like a film star from the '40s--she lives in the mansion on the hill, the public knows little about her private life, but she's not plastered all over the tabloids everyday.
She's not like 'Madonna I ', who gives it all away in each incarnation and then has to remake herself to replenish her mystique. Barbra Streisand keeps her distance, is a little cooler, but no less respected. Justin Timberlake is a force to be reckoned with.
He understood the point of springboard appeal. He evolved into a fully-fledged star. Entertainers do not rise to the top of their craft, or even the middle, without determination.
Madonna 's determination and confidence turned her into a pop star; her idea of herself as superior that separated her from the rest of the pack.
A recording artist is probably the best job anyone could hope to have. The business is unpredictable and ruthless, but the rewards are huge. And it could be you, if you can sing. When rubbish stories are printed by the press, the public begins to believe them and the damage is done. If you're too confident the voting public thinks you don't need its help.
The future of the music business depends on how quickly we adapt to things going wrong. The X Factor kicked off its second season in September with a few lineup changes. For the third season, the series made yet another change to the members of the judges panel, replacing Reid and Spears with Kelly Rowland and Paulina Rubio. Mario Lopez also stepped in as the primary host for the show after co-hosting with Khloe Kardashian during the second season. Fox decided not to renew the show for season 4 after Cowell announced he would focus on judging the British series.
Cowell has served as the executive producer of AGT since its inception in Prior to the end of its initial run, it was announced that The Greatest Dancer had been renewed for a second season.
In Cowell earned the No. He also created an American Idol spin-off, Idol Gives Back , a two-episode special that helped to provide aid to children in Africa and the American poor.
After dating entertainment journalist Terri Seymour, Cowell got engaged to Idol makeup artist Mezhgan Hussainy in However, the couple broke off their engagement the following year, with Cowell noting, "We came to the conclusion that I'm a hopeless boyfriend. When their affair resulted in a pregnancy, Silverman's husband filed for divorce. Cowell became a father with the birth of son Eric on February 14, Despite earlier insisting that he never wanted children, Cowell had changed his tune by the time his own son came into the world.
His father, Eric Philip Cowell, was an estate agent developer and music industry executive. His mother, Julie Brett, was a former ballet dancer and socialite. It starred Robson Green and Jerome Flynn.
Simon was now top of his tree, there were some disappointments along the way, he narrowly missed out on signing The Spice Girls, little did he know then, that Westlife were just around the corner. Simon met with Louis Walsh their manager and between them they created probably the biggest boy band this country has seen in recent years. Unfortunately for Simon, the day their first record went to number one, was the day his father died, so the euphoria was obviously sadly diminished.
Westlife went on to sell millions of singles and albums, including the number one millennium single. It ran for two seasons, after which Simon Fuller took Idol over to the States, with the new name of American Idol, which as we know had Simon on the judging panel, together with Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson.
It is doubtful that Simon had any idea at that stage just how big a profile Idol would give him in the States. But his charm and charisma carried him through and they loved him. We did see a different Simon start to emerge, the teeth got whiter, the wrinkles disappeared, with an all year round tan appearing, he was certainly embracing the LA lifestyle. Simon left Idol in to move on to launching the X Factor in America. Simon launched the hugely successful X Factor in Britain in and still has the prestige position of being the number one show on television.
The judges have changed over the years, but the production of the show gets bigger and better each year and we see the biggest names in music making guest appearances. Which other television production has so many people talking about it.
The X Factor is entertainment at its very best. Joining him on the judging panel were Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan. Piers has now left the show and Simon only appeared on the live shows in Two new judges appeared on our screens in , Michael McIntyre and David Hasselhoff, who of course is used to the Got Talent format as he was previously a judge on the American version. Simon joined the panel for the live shows in and returned full time for the series, with David Walliams, Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon.
The host was Steve Jones.. The show was a hit with over 12 million viewers tuning in,. Viewing figures began to decline during this season.
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