.OfficialSteps were responsible for cheesy pop hits like Tragedy and 5,6,7,8 — but a bitter behind-the-scenes rift led to one of music’s most brutal splits. 😢
Wanna make you mine, better get in lineThose lyrics, set to the bizarre Hi-NRG techno / linedancing soundtrack that was Steps’ 1997 debut singleAnd yet, 22 years later, Steps are as big as ever, enjoying a second life as 40-something pop stars after pulling off one of music’s most unlikely reunions.
It was a decision that gutted Scott-Lee and fellow band members Faye Tozer and Lee Latchford-Evans – and was made all the worse six months later when Claire and H formed a musical duo, even releasing an album together.“Gosh, well … that’s a good question. The way things abruptly ended, no, I don’t know I’d ever seen this coming. It was a tricky time, but amazingly, the friendships survived. We managed to discuss what happened at that time and work on it, and just become friends again,” she says.
Many of the issues that led to the split — a lack of communication, petty jealousies and the exhaustion that comes with insane schedules — have felled many a successful pop act before and after Steps. Is there any avoiding these hazards of the job?“It’s really interesting. Having known and been friends with a lot of big bands, the politics are the same. The issues are the same. And when you’re 20, they seem really important.
Then came a ho ho ho-hum Christmas album. But it didn’t feel like they’d really hit their stride once more until the release in 2017 of their first full album of new material in 17 years,set the tone: an impossibly camp banger and instant Steps classic. It’s an especially sweet victory for Scott-Lee, who suffered a very public humiliation in the aftermath of Steps’ split. Still devastated her career had been pulled out from under her, she gamely ventured out solo, scoring two UK top 10 hits before an ill-fated turn in a 2005 fly-on-the-wall reality show,“Ohhhh no. That’s my honest reaction,” she sighs.
“It wasn’t a pleasant experience for me – I felt like I’d been lied to. And I just find it fascinating that people still talk and ask me about it all these years on … I have heard it’s a bit of a cult thing, and I’ve got NO idea why.
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