In The Swing Of It

Product Information

After leaving school at 16, he began an apprenticeship in a print factory [5] but soon became disenchanted. I’m exhausted,” she laughs, as she talks of the never- ending promotion work for the album and forthcoming tour – which comes to Birmingham Symphony Hall on February 16. Kemp hosted the first series of "Martin Kemp's Murder Files", aired from November 2016, on the UK TV channel Quest.

Yet, up until the summer of 2019, the only singing the couple did together was probably in the kitchen while cooking a Sunday roast.Up until now because we've had the kids at home it's always been trying to keep work outside the front door - so it doesn't creep inside. Individually Martin and Shirlie Kemp were part of two of the biggest bands of the 1980s but until now have never worked on music together. Following surgery to remove the tumours, Kemp had a protective metal plate implanted over his brain under the scalp. Separately the '80s icons have enjoyed huge chart success over the decades with the Brit Award-winning Spandau Ballet and as one half of Pepsi and Shirlie, touring with best friend George Michael when they were backing singers in the glory days of Wham!

But earlier this year an opportunity came up to record a swing album with Martin, despite only ever having sung Islands In The Stream together at Christmas karaoke. I honestly think it’s the best work I’ve ever done in my life, apart from raising the kids and being a wife. My daughter not only wrote two songs, but she photographed us for the album cover, she made all the video and she filmed the whole making of the album," Shirlie reveals. Being Christmas, Sir Rod did remember to include one turkey, bizarrely teaming up for a duet with Robbie Williams on It Takes Two.The idea came after an impromptu recording session with Martin, while working with Cher and One Direction producer Brian Rawling. Dubbed “Roman The Showman” by his parents when he was growing up for his outgoing personality, Martin points out: “Roman grew up with lots of famous people around the house.

He went from literally nothing wrong to: “Oh my god, you’ve got two tumours and we’re going to operate next week. The album is simultaneously more experimental and more jam-packed with potential pop hits than his debut. Tracks include Nice Work If You Can Get It - a playful nod to Martin’s NTA Award winning acting roles on EastEnders and in Hollywood, and classics Ain’t That a Kick In The Head, Fly Me To The Moon and The Way You Look Tonight. Instead, when they coo covers of The Way You Look Tonight and Fly Me To The Moon at each other, you can tell they’re still adorably in love after 31 years of marriage. Martin and Shirlie Kemp have announced plans to release their first ever album together, something they both believe their late friend George Michael “would have loved”.The idea for the album was born off the back of an impromptu recording session with Martin, whilst working with producer Brian Rawling (Cher, Tina Turner, One Direction. And I think we can look back at the ’80s now as this incredible era because it was the last we saw of it. split up I went straight into doing it with Pepsi, and once again we're on planes, we're flying to Japan and so on, and you kind of lose a bit of life. Part of the secret why we’ve lasted is to make sure you look after your friendship as well as your love for each other.