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

Welcome back to the final episode of The Story of East 17. It's gone so quickly. Coming up in this episode, The Dream

refuses to die as various incarnations of the band rise from the ashes. And we also look at other

classic pop band reformations from S Club 7 to Bucks Viz and the lesser known Boys on the Block. And so we come to the Bloc And so we come to the final part

of the East 17 story.

So far, obviously,

they might be about to write a fifth part.

Yeah.

And you've gone with Terry

as the remaining man.

I have in a sort of panicked change at the last minute. I've shifted to the man who said he needed the money most. Things change around a lot in this part. There's a lot of coming and going in East 17, and it is thrillingly absurd throughout. I think that's a kind of trope of these kind of bands. They often carry on in some of the most absurd guises. So I thought

I'd just get your eye in. Yeah, yeah. So we obviously mentioned new kids on the block earlier.

I should tie up that they regrouped in 2008 for reunion tour. Old kids on the block. Oh, kids on the block.

Well, better than that. Obviously, a lot of people knew them as NKOTB. Right, yeah. And then they did join forces. This sounds like a joke, but it's not, with the Backstreet Boys in a super group called NKOTBSB. It's like when you asked for the Wi-Fi pass. I'm not going to have to photograph that. I'm not going to remember that. Keep going back to the route. One more time. Is it all caps? Or is it? Yeah. The problem comes, I think, often when you put a number, like the band five, yeah. At the time of recording, have just announced they've got back together the original five. Yes. One of the problems with them is they could never really reform as less. Yes. Let me take you through the story of S Club 7 post S Club 7. In 2008, Paul, Bradley and Joe. Can I try and guess what they were called each time? Yeah. Let's see if I can get it right. Okay. They wanted to get S Club 7 back together, but the other members were too involved in other projects, believe that, if you will. So it's just the three of them. What were they called? S Club. S Club. Were they? So a fooling the first hurdle. Okay. So then... It's too much of a drop from 7 to 3, isn't it? It's embarrassing, isn't it? I think that you... Just call yourself S Club. Yeah. So then Tina rejoins, making it four of them.

Escap four.

S Club. Yeah. So then Tina rejoins, making it four of them. Es Club Four. Es Club Party, they became. Okay. Because three's not a party. No. Three's a gathering, four's a party. And then the following year, the full seven reunite for one-off performance in benefit of children in need. Okay. Paul leaves again. I hadCub 6. The three remaining members, Bradley, Joe and Tina, which is a different from the original three of Paul, Bradley, and Joe. Go back to S-Club 3, but this is different to the original S-Club 3. There's a few performances as them. And then it goes down to Bradley and Tina, just the two of them. And they become

S Club Live.

S Club Square.

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