Sad to hear Stedman from Five Star has passed away aged 60.
Loved them back in the day, very successful for a time until it fell apart.
1986 being their most successful year and further hits in 1987 including The Slightest Touch
which has been covered by Louise and Steps.
www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/brea...son-dead-60-34849657

Stedman sang lead vocals on this track from the Silk & Steel album

It's a shame that there was too much infighting in the group.

Lorraine formed her own Five Star which caused more friction, however, if she saw an opportunity and took it.

A bit like Woody from BCR, he saw an opportunity to get the game and trademark, he is the only surviving member of BCR to carry on the legacy.

Eric told Woody to pretty much to piss off.

Eric just seems to release music by self-publishing but never promotes it.

It's a shame Duncan Faure wants nothing to do with the band, I loved his raw vocals on the later stuff like Turn On The Radio, they were pretty much done by then.

Was it Five Star who were spending money like no tomorrow on big houses and flashy cars (two members didn't even have a licence) bought about 2/3 cars each and then went bankrupt?

Couldn't believe he was 60. Still very young in this day and age though.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this, maybe you need to be just the right age. I remember seeing this live at the time.

Saturday morning BBC TV in the late 80's. The man himself, Eliot Fletcher has put it on You Tube. Warning: Expletives!

Five Star on Going Live with Sarah Greene - youtu.be/F63g3w04PV4?si=ZDPuTPusimrBs9eE

BBC News item on this from 2019 - www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49824441


I also remember watching something similar live in 1984 with Matt Bianco and Mike Read on his Saturday morning Superstore. When this one happened I remember the complete shock and embarrassment I felt at home rather than amusement!

youtu.be/BeueudGAezA?si=M-LEDM2Ff8DbOCEq


Good old Noel Edmonds never had anyone swear at his pop guests on the Multi-Coloured Swap Shop!

Green Man wrote:
Was it Five Star who were spending money like no tomorrow on big houses and flashy cars (two members didn't even have a licence) bought about 2/3 cars each and then went bankrupt?

I remember reading many stories like this in the late 80's "greed period" and I think money and fame clearly went to their heads a bit with not enough older sensible advice.

I liked a couple of their earliest hits, the first one All Fall Down, and The Slightest Touch is alright. I really began to dislike them though very intensely and was pleased when the hits dried up almost overnight and they were gone. Others must have felt the same. It seems like they were around for a while but the big hits were only in 1986 and 1987, and their entire chart career only went three years 1985 to 1988, so they were rather fleeting looking back. One moment you can stop charting in quick succession, the next you can get charting at all.

Their name always made me think of petrol back then.

Matt Bianco were a shit group so yes they should be filed under "Wanker". They were very corporate in making Jazz cool for younger people and yuppies.

I still wonder if city boys bought Matt Bianco records just to be hip but they ended up still listening to Dire Straits.

Especially when electronic stores were pushing Brothers in Arms on the HI-Fis they wanted shifting or the companies that paid for the real estate.

Brothers In Arms was mixed digitally so it was always going to be a clear crisp sound, not from the stereo itself. In stores did sell Brothers In Arms for a few pounds or dollars less if you bought a HiFi. How naive we were back then.

The stores would turn the volume up on Money For Nothing and Walk Of Life came on. Cheeky bastards.

My partner has some Five Star LPs from her youth still, some songs are catchy but most are just filler.

I do like Rain Or Shine it was a club song near the end of the night. I did think Five Star were a bit naff back then but looking back I do appreciate them. I was into glam metal, Ted Nugent, Paul Young and Genesis and I also liked The Searchers Sire LP from 1981, I bought it in about 1985.

I remember telling a girl I liked The Searchers she walked away.

There is one single by Matt Bianco that I really do love. I remember hearing it for the first time very late one night in crystal clear expanded stereo off my local commercial radio station with my brand new headphones on in early 1985 when I should have been sleeping, school was probably the next morning. I was in a semi-sleep state just drifting off and the wonderful sound of Basia consumed me totally on More Than I Can Bear. A single that criminally only made it to No50 in this very week 40 years ago.

I really do love this for the Basia harmony at the beginning in particular. So dreamy.

youtu.be/gEpzwTVHhaI?si=SL5WLhyG1L_L0SO6