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Hello and welcome. I am Josh Whittickham. This is my Museum of Pop Culture.

Welcome back to part two of the story of East 17.

One minute you're a plumber, you're in a hole up to here with water, trying to shovel

it out next minute, you're on stage, you've got a little bit of money, everyone knows who

you are and all girls want you in it.

And it was just like, it was brilliant.

Coming up in this episode, it's the Battle of the British Boy Band as the rivalry with

Take That heats up and east 17 released their career

defining chart topper stay another day i want to start not with east 17 it's good to come

in at a different angle yeah there's actually no east 17 in this, is it at all? We'll get to episode four. Beatles versus the Stones. Okay. Do you remember the name of Beatles manager? Epstein. Yeah, Brian Epstein. That's not part of it, but I just thought I'd check that we're listening. Yeah, I was. Yeah, absolutely. The reason the Beatles versus the Stones matters. Yes.

It is used a lot to describe the next chapter in East 17.

So do you consider the Beatles v.

The Stones as a rivalry?

Yes, I would consider that, yeah.

Well, the Beatles, and I hate this, there's a trope that really does my head in, which is people going,

actually, I'd say that the Beatles were the first ever boy band.

Okay.

And you can see why stage invasions, faintings, hospitalisations, screaming girls, that kind of thing.

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