Stay Another Day: The Incredible Story of 'East 17' (Part 3)
Josh Widdicombe's Archive of Pop Culture
Keep It Light Media
4.8 • 956 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Episode 3:
In the third episode of this series, Josh Widdicombe and comedian and friend Tom Craine discuss the incredible story of one of the biggest boy bands of the 90's - East 17.
Coming up in this episode - a controversial tabloid news story leads to the sacking of Brian Harvey, and soon after the whole band implodes as Tony leaves and the record label drops them.
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to listen to all of the episodes of this series right now, early release and ad-free, |
| 0:04.8 | plus a whole host of extra fan club benefits, head to museum of pop culture.supportingcast.com. |
| 0:09.8 | Or if that's too much of a mouthful, just click on it in the show notes, which is the description |
| 0:15.7 | bit that no one reads. |
| 0:21.7 | Hello and welcome. I am Josh Whittickham. This is my Museum of Pop Culture. |
| 0:31.4 | Welcome back to part three of the story of East 17. Coming up in this episode, a controversial |
| 0:36.9 | tabloid news story leads to the sacking of Brian Harvey. |
| 0:40.1 | And soon after, the whole band implodes as Tony leaves and the record label drops them. |
| 0:51.1 | So last time we left this, Brian Harvey's just made the classic schoolboy era of saying he took eight ecstasy. |
| 1:00.7 | 12. |
| 1:01.0 | 12, sorry. |
| 1:02.9 | He ate 12. |
| 1:04.1 | Let me finish. |
| 1:05.0 | He ate 12 ecstasy tablets. |
| 1:07.9 | How dare I question you were getting that wrong. |
| 1:09.4 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:10.4 | That's quite the decision to go with that. To a journalist as well. East 17 have, they've had three platinum albums. They've been at the top for maybe five years at this point. Yep. Do you think that's some good innings? Incredible. So, you said it was something, 1.8 million single sold in the UK, 8 million or something around. |
| 1:29.3 | Fantastic. |
| 1:30.2 | So maybe it's a natural end. |
| 1:31.6 | It's not a natural end. |
| 1:32.6 | It wasn't always going to head this way. |
| 1:34.4 | It's natural you want to celebrate by taking 12 pills in one night. |
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