For 16 years The X Factor crowned Britain s biggest new singing stars, promising them fame and riches beyond their wildest dreams. But for many their moment in the limelight was brief.
Today former contestants are queuing up to hit out against the British music industry for exploiting and treating them like cattle since their overnight rise to fame.
Rebecca Ferguson has called for an urgent parliamentary inquiry to help protect young and emerging artists and an independent tribunal to hold those responsible for poor treatment within the industry to account.
Her fellow contestant Cher Lloyd, 27, and double act Jedward, both 29, who appeared on the show the previous year, have now also hit out at the industry and claimed they were also poorly treated.
Sean Paul, Shaggy
With just a 4-year age difference, Jamaican artists Sean Paul and Shaggy snatched mainstream success around the same time in the early 2000s. Though Shaggy, 52, went a little more
left into Reggae and Paul, 48, drifted
right into Dancehall, their accomplishments have followed a similar path to stardom.
Both have locked in several studio albums, appeared in films, and snatched a few music awards here and there, including a bunch of Grammy nominations and wins. They’ve been marked in the Reggae & Dancehall archives as two pioneering and iconic acts who took the genre to the international stage.
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood (
FGTH), formed in 1980, were a British band popular in the mid-1980s. The group was fronted by Holly Johnson (vocals), with Paul Rutherford (vocals), Peter Gill (drums, percussion), Mark O Toole (bass guitar), and Brian Nash (guitar).
The group s 1983 debut single Relax was banned by the BBC in 1984 while at number six in the charts and subsequently topped the UK Singles Chart for five consecutive weeks, going on to enjoy prolonged chart success throughout that year and ultimately becoming the seventh best-selling UK single of all time. It also won the 1985 Brit Award for Best British Single. After the follow-up success of Two Tribes and The Power of Love , the group became only the second act in the history of the UK charts to reach number one with their first three singles; the first being fellow Liverpudlia
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