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the journey

Jimmy and Spike were dancers on the British cult television "The Hitman And Her" show. Both of them decided to form a duo after they realised that they were getting a better respone than the acts they were supporting.

Lee met Jimmy and Spike at The Hitman roadshow in Carlisle - his hometown, to which he took his little sister who fancied Spike to see the gig the other two were in. Lee convinced the duo to let him join up and thus - bang! 911 was born.

Jimmy, Lee and Spike move to Scotland in the bet of pop stardom. Many people thought them are crazy. In the early day, 911 were turn-down each time they knock on a door in search for a record deal. What followed was months and months on the road in Scotland of all place, gigging at dody venues and playing to even dodgier audience.

Finally they released the remark of the classic Shalamar disco tune "Night To Remember" and followed by "Love Sensation" on the indepence label, the Ginga Records Co. "Night To Remember" was released on 29 April 96 and reached No.38 and "Love Sensation" peaked at No.21 in the UK Charts.

911 then embarked on UK wide tour with released of their 's third singles "Don 't Make Me Wait". This single draws the attenation of Virgin Records. And on Lee 's 21 birthday on the 27 September 96, the long await record deals was signed.

Finally, the debut ablum "The Journey" was released on the 24 February 97 and so begun a huge success. Their new single, 'Bodysakin' which crashing it way to No.3 in the UK.

Between March to June 97, 911 went around the world to promote it 's debut ablum in Europe ; Germany, Norway, Switzerland, the Far East ; Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Korea, Japan and also US.

An earlier attempt to break the US market - with "Love Sensation" which also appears on the Casper 2 movie soundtrack - hadn 't be been successful and memorable. They also release a song - "Be Your Own Best Friends" for the Power Rangers series.

The single "The Journey" was released in July 97 and reached No.3 in the UK Charts.

While in September 97 saw the commen for the 911 first UK Tour. Beginning in the the city of Glasgow, 911 play to a stage of 30 cities and finished at the Wembley Arena all in 3 weeks.

The tour was quickly announed a success with the show selling out in a minutes of hour. On the Back of the tour, a band new track was out, "Party People... Friday Night" which quickly enter the UK Top 40 chart at No.4. For the first on 911 single, all there band members some the lead vocal.

Then come, "All I Want Is You", "How Do You Want Me To Love You" taken from their second ablum titled 'Moving On' which was released in 6 July 98.

Their third ablum 'There Is It' was released on 11 January 1999. This ablum was supposed to be out before Christmas or year-end. It's a cover version of their favourite songs in the 70 's and 80 's like 'Private Number', Boogie Nights", "Rock Me Gently" plus many many more. The first single from the ablum "More Than A Woman" went to No.2 - oh, it's so close to the No.1 spot!!!

Then on 25 January came "A Little Bit More" single, which and finally at last were the lads first No.1. Well, done boys!!!

 



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