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What was CHAZ BAPS?
Didn't Billie have a WELL HIDDEN COKE PROBLEM from a young age and I always imagined her withdrawal from music was partly due to that (I'm guessing entirely here but parental intervention?)
I remember her turning up at some Radio 1 roadshow in Bristol and a friend who was doing something there (my memory is a bit fuzzy, SORRY) saying she'd arrived and was "off her tits" and then the announcement was made last minute that she'd not turned up as she was very unwell with a stomach bug...
Billie was supposedly caught having cocaine snorted off her baps.
Billie was supposedly caught having cocaine snorted off her baps.
I was at that very outdoor roadshow and was gutted that she "didn't make it"...to add insult to injury I think they sent Sonique out twice to wow the crowds.
Oh and S Club's track 'Natural started up instead of 'You' which led to them screeching 'wrong track wrong track' to cover the vocals and hide the fact that they were miming. Shock horror.
INNIT
By the time I was going out 50 Cent and Madame Mim were providing the bangers du jour.
Even when I got to Leeds and started gay clubbing it was mostly boring dance music and RnB; I was reduced to trying to lose my shit to Rachel Stevens shitty version of More More More
I am always a bit bitter that this happened just before I was old enough to go out. I am wholeheartedly envious of the likes of RB who got to sip a WKD blue through a straw and then lose it on the dancefloor whenever this came on.
I was the Manager of the Singles Department in Virgin at the time which took up a third of the ground floor space!
I can't even tell you how amazing it was. As if being high on Watermelon Bacardi Breezers, Pro Plus and the excitement of certain molestation wasn't enough, THIS was the soundtrack to it all.
I could be wrong, but I was always under the impression she was in fact CHAZBAPS of the infamous Nineties record industry rumour...
Where was the Virgin in Glasgow?
I was lucky enough to be 21 when this came out, so I was right in the middle of my CLUBBING phase. I was on the dancefloor, Simirnoff Ice in one hand, other arm in the air!
I remember the DJ had a boyfriend who worked in HMV, and he'd always have the following week's new releases to play on the Saturday night which I thought was amazing, back when I knew the release date of every single song - I was the Manager of the Singles Department in Virgin at the time which took up a third of the ground floor space!