Explosive Boyzone documentary sheds light on ‘cruel’ treatment of band
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Singers say Walsh ‘promised us the sun, moon, and stars’. An explosive documentary details the “cruel” treatment that boy band Boyzone suffered under the management of Louis Walsh. No Matter What, will be released on 2 February on Now and Sky Documentaries, and features candid interviews and footage of band members Ronan Keating, Shane Lynch, Stephen Gateley, Keith Duffy and Mikey Graham.
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”We were a bunch of kids put together. We weren’t perfect, we weren’t polished,” Keating says in the trailer for the film. Walsh, who is widely considered the mastermind behind the band says, “I prefer ordinary people, because they work harder. And they do whatever you want at the start.”.
Lynch admits that the former X Factor judge “promised us the sun, moon, and stars.”. Walsh is apparently unapologetic as he says: “They believed their own publicity. They forgot I wrote it.”. The group admits they went through some “cruel” times during their run in the group under Walsh’s leadership.
“There were things that happened that were cruel,” says Duffy in the trailer. A synopsis for the documentary reads: “They were one of the most successful and iconic boybands of all time – but behind-the-scenes, conflict and rivalry, betrayal and tragedy led to their falling apart.
“Now, thirty years on, all four remaining members - Ronan Keating, Keith Duffy, Shane Lynch and Michael ‘Mikey’ Graham, as well as their estranged manager, Louis Walsh – reveal the truth of what really happened, the extraordinary highs of their meteoric rise to fame, and the huge costs that being in a boyband had on each of them.”.
