Glasgow Herald Magazine 14.1 Stunning!! Article all up**

[Heather]

There is a lot of this and I have a lot going on but I will post it as best I can as and when I get time but to kick off, here is the front page of the Glasgow Herald Magazine :shocked:



My scanner is rubbish and in no way justifies how clear and beautiful this photo is :oops: His eyes! :-o

next.......... :D



and the last of the 3 new pictures included....



Other pictures are 1 from MHP (Yellow and black spotty number from stage show), 1 of Will and G from PI final week (Wearing Vote Will rosette), 1 shot from opening sequence of Evergreen Video and 1 of Will, Dame Judy and Bob from the MHP Premier.

HUGE article to follow :mrgreen:

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How’s this for serendipity? The day I met Will is also the day the latest X-Factor winner, Shayne Ward, releases his first single, My Goal. Days later the record claims the Christmas number one spot selling an impressive 313,784 copies on its first day of release. Not bad for a typical Simon Cowell-approved slice of chicken-in-a-basket lachrymosity. In doing so it becomes the 3rd fastest selling single ever, after Elton Johns Candle in the Wind and Evergreen sung by the man soon to be sitting in front of me.


And, of course, it’s almost four years ago – or, if you operate in TV Talent show time, a Girls Aloud, a Michelle McManus, a Steve Brookstien and a Shayne Ward – since Young himself staked a claim to stardom in Pop Idol, beating the Cowell-approved Gareth Gates in the final vote and releasing Evergreen as a result. Like we said, serendipity.

At least, up to a point, Look at that list of names again. Girls Aloud and their pop strumpet charms apart, there aren’t any real winners amongst them. McManus is attempting a comeback this year, but you’d hardly hold out much hope, while Brookstein barely made it in the first place. And as for plucky Gates, well, even he probably doesn’t know what he is up to these days. So what are the odds that Shayne Ward will still be around in four years time?

And yet here is Young, four years in, posing for his photograph in rather a natty private members club in London’s Soho, looking every bit the op star and giving the impression he’s enjoying that fact. Between set-ups and film changes he banters with his stylist and hairdresser, corrects them when they lurch into bad English, discusses Bertolt Brecht and jokes about his ‘gangster days’ at public school (he is very pukka pop star when all is said and done). At one poin I notice the film director Mike Leigh lugubriously shuffling down Greek Street outside, and when I mention it Young rushes to the window and mock shouts: “Cast me, cast me! I could be someone.” He then turns to the rest of us and announces “I love Mike Leigh.” Now and again he breaks out into song, a Scissor Sisters track here, a snatch of Bring Me Sunshine there. “There’s a good vibe today” he says at one point to no-one in particular and everyone in the room , and most of it is coming from himself.

Ask him if four years ago he expected to be in the pop business for the long haul and he says yes, actually. “I don’t know If I was expecting it but I had the belief. I still have the belief. I think you have to have that to do it.” The key thing, he says, is that he hasn’t based his progress on the short term. “I base it on the long term gains and I always have. As soon as I could regain, or actually gain, as much control as I could working with the people around me, my decisions were always based on that. Its actually quite rewarding to think that ‘Okay, well, I’ve made some good decisions and that’s why I am still here.”

Control is the key motif. Youngs willingness to stand up to Cowell’s school bully routine on Pop Idol contributed to his success on the show: since then hes increasingly been able to shape what he does and how he does it. The last single, Switch It On, which he admits was “very different for me” – “footloose by way of Bo Diddley,” according to one reviewer – was one about his management company was not initially sure. “There was conflict about that, but I quite like conflict because if you believe in something then you need to be tested on it.”

Its taken time, through, for Young to be in a positon where he can be tested. “For the first two years I literally thought, ‘Just gain the experience.’ Like I always have in any new situation. I just got my head down and did it.”
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Part Two

For a while that meant singing the Pop Idol favourite Evergreen – a song which he never much cared for. “I don’t think that was ever a secret,! He says. “It wasn’t my kind of song, and you have to want to sing songs you have a personal investment in. I didn’t with that song. Its very hard because you feel a bit of a fake. I don’t discredit it for what it did. I its so linked to the show, and that’s why I think it’s a great thing – if I hear it, it reminds me of that winning sho and that’s what the sing is about. Do you know what I mean? Whereas Leave Right Now has a moment attached to it, and that’s the moment where its like, ‘Okay, maybe he’ll stck around.”

He certainly has every intention of doing so. That’s why he has a film career possibly in the offing) he’s stuck a toe into acting – or, as would have it, “a whole leg” – with a role in the film Mrs Henderson Present’s), a third album in the charts and a new single (A ballad called All Time Love) to be released next week. Increasingly he is shaping he own future. “This album is more personal than the last one in every single way,” he says about Keep On, a state of the art pop record that is maybe difficult to really love but is hard not to like. Young co-wrote more than half the tracks on the album and even collaborates with the multi-instrumentalist Nitin Sawhney on one – a song called Home, which is something of an ambient pop gem.

For anyone who’s not been paying attention, Sawheny’s name is not one you’d expect to see associated with Young. But spend any time with the 26-year-old singer and its clear his horizons are a little wider than you might expect – and that extends merely hoping that Mike Leigh calls. “I just got to a place where I could say to people, “look I’m really interested in working with you if you want to work with me,’ and a few of them said yes,” he says. Sawheny was one; Andy Cato from Groove Armada was another. The tracks with cato have yet to emerge, “but I know they will stick around”, says Young.

“When I hear something I think is really interesting, I think, ‘Well, okay, I could work with them.’ Like there’s this new band called Mattafix, who I just think are just great. I have been listening to their album and I’d quite like to get in touch with them.”

Young, then is not the Pop idol clone you might expect. Name dropping rather obscure (but rather good) London neo-trip-hop duos is not the kind of career advice Simon Cowell would give you. But Young, for all that he is firmly anchored in the mainstream (all-round performer is not a tag he is ashamed of, “as long as there is quality to it”) is a more intriguing pop star than the manner of his stardom would suggest. And maybe a more intriguing person too.

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Part Three

Before he applied for Pop Idol Will Young was studying politics at Exeter University. “I really got into it at A level, “ he says. “And when I got to University there was probably too much drinking, too much socialising and I was doing a lot more singing. I was doing musicals, organising charity balls, really kind of getting involved in the rest of life other than what I was supposed to be doing. “ Still, he enjoyed what studying he did. “I enjoyed the political theory, “ he says. “I enjoyed the notion of trying to understand why our country and our government is run the way it is, what’s important about democracy, what are the failings, where did they come from, what are the systems in other countries.”

The last book he read was an anti-capitalist collection of statements about our society, which went through the alphabet, taking in commerce, love, marketing and Marxism along the way. “It basically says how capitalism is destroying each one, or how capitalism is using each one. It’s really interesting.”

He’s too sussed to say what his opinions actually are, but is he a political animal? “No. I watch Question Time but I don’t really read the papers. I don’t understand much about many of the issues and was never that interested in them. But I am interested in the movement of power, and I am interested in democracy and people not hijacking democracy for other things, and I think that can happened. I’m more interested in people having a voice”. Does he vote? “Yeah, I did vote in the last election.”

While he’s not quite the Berkshire “toff’ the red-tops had him down as when he won Pop Idol, his background was pretty comfortable. He is one of twins: his brother Rupert, he reckons, is not a bad singer either. His mother, Annabel, “has a nursery”, and his father, Robin, “runs a business”. What kind of business? “Oh it’s quite hard to explain.” Something in engineering it would seem.

Young says he was a pensive child, whatever that means. Music, though, was always part of the programme. His mother in particular always had music on. “The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, the Rolling Stones, Curtis Mayfield, Suzanne Vega……I remember a lot.”
The first record he bought was Kylie Minogue’s first album, “the one with the hat with the hair through it”, He was nine.

There were no other performers in the family, “I think that is even better. I was never pushed into doing it. I see lots of people who do things because of external pressures or their notions of how other people see them. They don’t really things for themselves. And I have always done it for myself, really. Nobody’s ever said, ‘You should do this.’ I’m pleased, in a way, that there are no other performers in my family because it really meant that I knew what I wanted to do. It was not the norm.”

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Part Four (halfway)

Part four.

At 11 or 12 he liked the idea of going to drama school, and remembers appearing on stage for the first time in a musical. But for most of the time before Pop Idol, singing remained a private passion. “I think that’s why I was so different in that competition, because I got really exhilarated singing on a microphone. I’d never sung on a microphone. I’d never been on a karaoke.

So why, you wonder, was he ready to step up in front of the television cameras and risk humiliation so readily? “Fro me, its always been about time – and that was the right time. I’d got my degree, I’d gained more experience at university, I’d got a scholarship to drama school – that was going well and I was ready for it. And I’m really pleased I did wait, because I knew what I was about by the time I went into that first audition, and I would not be like this now hadn’t I known what I was about. I’d probably be pretty messed up by the whole thing because it’s a mad job. So its really helped me coming in late.”

Mad job, mad rewards. Presumably Young isn’t worrying about his overdraft too much these days. What, I ask him, is the most extravagant thing he has done with his earnings? “I bought an old car, I bought a 1963 Porsche. I don’t get out in it that much. And that was extravagant. But I thought, ‘You know what? I’ve worked really hard. I love that car. I’m going to get it.”

Does he know how much he’s actually worth? “I do, but I’m not telling you. Its not as much as people suspect. I love these stories where people say, ‘He’s worth £20 million.’ I’m like, “That would be nice.” What’s the most ridiculous rumour he has heard about himself? “If there is anyone who people think is remotely gay, I get attached to them. ‘I know. We’ll attach them to Will Young and that will mean he’s obviously gay.’ That happens quite a lot.” Have these rumours ever mentioned anyone to whom he actually would like to be attached? “Not to date, no.”
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Part five.


How’s this for serendipity? The day of this interview is also the day of the first civil partnership ceremonies to take place in England. Young has been to one this morning, the ‘wedding’ of a friend (not Elton, in case your wondering). “It was really nice. I think it’s a good moment in time. Think of all those people who fought for that and fought for their rights”.

Young , as we all know, is gay and though he isn’t planning a wedding of his own in the near future (he doesn’t have a partner at the moment, he says, and if the papers are to be believed he’s only really had one serious partner in the last six years), he’s obviously comfortable enough with people knowing it. Unless you find the prospect of Judi Dench saying the f-word amusing, one of the few genuine laughs in Ms Henderson Present’s (which is otherwise a dire bit of heritage cinema and a rare misfire by director Stephen Frears) is when Dench asks Young if he is enjoying the sight of all the scantily clad women up on the stage of the Windmill theatre. “I have other inclinations”, he replies with a smile. On his album Young sings the line “happiness is being gay” , while the video for Switch It On is a play on what we now know, mainly thanks to Quentin Tarantino, to be one of the prime homoerotic cinematic test of the last two decades, Top Gun (key line: “Man, you can ride my tail, any time!”)

It probably says as much about our culture as it does about Young himself that he’s able to guy (ahem) his image as a ‘gay pop star’ sp readily. There was a time – and not that long ago if you consider a star like George Michael – when coming out was something to be avoided, something that could threaten your career. For Young, though, it seemed small potatoes. “I don’t think it was a big deal. Look, my audience doubled from the first album to the second album.” That is not to say he he’s blasé about it: “I think there’s a way to go. People can always open their minds more. And I’m not just talking sexuality. I’m talking race, religion, all that stuff. But I have had it a lot easier than a lot of artists in previous years, and maybe I was a bit of a marker for that”.

Young came out to his family and friends when he was 20. Did he know he was gay as a teenager? “I think I did know but it takes a while to sort it all out in your head. Twenty was the time I was really aware of it and ready to do something about it. In the end it’s a ‘wonderful feeling’ when you can share everything with others. And actually people don’t care. I always say what Matt Lucas says when he is doing that character in little Britain: ‘I’m the only gay in the village’, he thinks it is the most important thing in the world and then he comes out and everyone’s like, ‘Okay, firstly, I knew that and secondly I’m not really interested.’ I just think it’s so true.” Was that his own experience? “Yeah, probably it was. You think it’s a big deal and everyone’s like, ‘Okay, fine. Now where are we going for lunch?’

Young says he would have come out publicly, but of course he wasn’t given much choice. “I was going to anyway, two weeks after, but a certain repulsive paper pushed it.” So he did a story with the News of the World. The thinking was, he says, “Why not get it out of the way? Let’s move on.”
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Part six
And what is encouraging is that he was able to do so. Does he get any homophobic imbeciles bothering him? “Hardly any. Really, hardly any. And if it does happen it’s a bit like water off a ducks back.” Also, he says, when it does happens its not from the people you’d expect, the builder, the guy in the street, they are the ones who tend to be gracious rather than giving him grief. “I’m walking down the street and a guy shouts out from his van, ‘well done, well done, my wife loves you, I love you, I don’t mind you sleep with men.’ And to me that’s great. Someone said to me the other day, ‘I’m not gay will, I’m not but if I was: you’re a beautiful man. I’d think about it.’ I said, ‘You know what? That’s the best thing anyone’s said to me in a long time.”

Without getting carried away – the horrific murder of young barman Jody Dobrowski on Clapham Common last October is the worst kind of reminder that homophobia still exists in the UK today – Young’s story is, as he says, something of a marker. Think back 20 years. Would it have been possible then for a gay pop star (whether out and proud like Jimmy Somerville or seemingly in denial like Elton John) to think their sexuality was not that important, either commercially or personally? Yet that is exactly how it is for Young. He is not, he says, defined by his sexuality – nor, he adds, by his class. “It’s none of those things. I refuse to be stereotyped and I refuse to stereotype myself. I think people find that harder to swallow. I think they still do, even four years on. They look at me and say, ‘I don’t understand. You’re this and you’re that. What is he? And I think that’s fantastic. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘You’re this person.’

“I don’t want to base who I am on class or crumbling notions of what class or political learning’s or sexuality or what music I listen to. I remember going to see the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and someone came up to me and said ‘What are you doing here?’ Well, I was coming to concerts before you. And it’s just so interesting that this 16 year old was like’ But you’re this. You shouldn’t be there, you should be there.’ And it’s about that.

In our time together, this is the only time Young raises his voice. He is horrified by the idea that anyone can sum him up by the food he eats or the car he drives. “It’s a hard parcel for me, but then my music is the same.”
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Part seven.

So if its not class, sexual orientation, politics or material goods that define Will Young then what is it?

“It’s got to be my beliefs. You must always push yourself to attain the best possible results and not be afraid of failure. Never sitting on my laurels. Always treat people with respect, no matter who it is – and not just because I do this job. Not feeling I can be rude to people because I can get away with it, because it will come crashing down on me. Treat people how you expect to be treated, and hopefully be a good friend, a good family member, a good boyfriend. That is what I live by.”
A good boyfriend? Well, he doesn’t seem to be in a hurry. When was the last time he was chatted up? “Maybe Monday night.” He was at a party. “I might be arrogant in saying that.”

Although he says he has to check himself for egotism, Young doesn’t come across as arrogant. He has the drive and ambition to be successful – but, it seems not, the desire to be famous. He doesn’t live or die by his appearances in the pages of Heat magazine or the Sun’s Bizarre column. It helps that after all the hard work he is now more comfortable in his work and his life. “I really am at a place where I know what I’m about and I haven’t had that so much before.

The thing that surprised him most about fame, he says, is the press – “how the press works, and how so many things are untrue. I remember being quite disillusioned by that, not for myself but more for society. My God, I just didn’t realise they’ve got to seek a paper every day and the stuff that goes in…I mean, its laughable.”

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Last part…..


The nicest person he’s met in pop, he says, is Robbie Williams. Would he ever want a career at William's level? “I suppose I do from the part of me that’s like ‘must be more successful, must attain more’. I don’t think I’d ever get there, though. It’s not that I shouldn’t aim for that, but I just think…” He pauses for a moment. “Maybe I don’t have the belief yet to do that. I don’t really think about other people. Or I really try not to. I try to think about what I am doing, otherwise you would always compare. “That person sold more – I need to be like that.’ I try not to be like that but it is hard as you can’t help but look and go, I’m here in the charts but I want to be where Robbie is or Eminem is.’ And its like, ‘Okay, listen, be happy with your lot.”

In just over 3 years time Will Young will be 30. By then he’d like to have done a show on television, “some kind of performance thing, maybe a kind of Pennies from Heaven thing, lived in New York for a bit and maybe done a Broadway show. He is too old he says to be worried about what is cool. And anyway, what is cool? It’s not about wearing a particular brand of trainers or listening to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers or not appearing in a TV talent shows. “I think what I’ve learnt is that cool is individuality, and I think cool is being comfortable with yourself. “

All of which would suggest that Will Young might just be the coolest person in pop right now..

Teddy Jamieson



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Heather

[cowgirl]

wow what a pic it made me step back as soon as i saw it to take it all in xxxx

[Chris T.]

Just seen it over the road 8-O They've darkened his eyes - he looks so different.

Thanks Heather.

[sheilab]

Thanks Heather! :D WOW that is some picture! 8-O

Look forward to seeing the rest when you have time! ;-)

Sheilax

[pompeyloz]

OMG! 8-O

Absolutely beautiful! :faint:

Thankyou so much for posting :D

xLaurenx

[Katka]

8-O Wow 8-O Thank you so much 8-O

[Bumbling]

Wow thanks Heather :cheer:

Ive been waiting for some wee Scottish peep to post it!! ;-)

[Jules]

Wow thanks Heather, he looks amazing! 8-O

Ju xxx

[Me4will4eva]

He looks amazing ! :thud:

Stunning 8-O

Thanks for posting :hugkiss:

[mary]

Thank you Heather it is STUNNING! He's beautiful :faint:

[JanetL]

He is truly beautiful..stunning :faint:

Jx

[marg]

AMAZING PICTURE - THANK YOU HEATHER

[Cocopop]

This must be the promised article in the 'Scottish' Herald that the offish posted :roll: :lol:

Off out to get a copy now :sonic: (bloody paper boy must have slept in - papers not delivered today :-( - he's a dead man when I see him!! :-x )


Thanks Heather

CCP

Love the Man, Love the Music

[Soulful]

Truly Stunning 8-O 8-O

Thankyou Heather :D :D

[scooby-doo]

Thank you, Heather. That pic is soooooo beautiful. :thud:

I wish I lived in Scotland...can't buy that paper where I live! :-(

[Heather]

next up...........

[Soulful]

next up...........



:pant: :pant: :pant: :pant:

[pussycat]

Just come back from trying to get the Herald and the Independent - went to 5 outlets, but they'd all been sold out or hadn't been delivered. 8-O :-( So thank you Heather for managing to get a copy, and posting. :cheer:

[Me4will4eva]

next up...........



:pant: :pant: :pant: :pant:

OMG !! :pant:

These look recent ... his hair !! :thud:

[Bumbling]

He is wearing that waistcoat again :lol:

Wonder if this was the interview which Will went to give last Saturday afternoon 8-)

[mariloveswill]

OMG loving this one Heather. Thankx for posting them both up.

Lilsx :mrgreen:

[Heather]

and the last of the 3 new pictures included....



:faint:


Other pictures are 1 from MHP (Yellow and black spotty number from stage show), 1 of Will and G from PI final week (Wearing Vote Will rosette), 1 shot from opening sequence of Evergreen Video and 1 of Will, Dame Judy and Bob from the MHP Premier.

HUGE article to follow ;)

[Chris T.]

Oh my god 8-O look at him :oops: ....beard :D :tongue1:

[Laineym]

I am completely and utterly speechless - I wonder if you can order back copies of this 8-O 8-O 8-O

Thanks so much for posting.

Elaine
x

[ags_loves_will]

and the last of the 3 new pictures included....



:faint:


Other pictures are 1 from MHP (Yellow and black spotty number from stage show), 1 of Will and G from PI final week (Wearing Vote Will rosette), 1 shot from opening sequence of Evergreen Video and 1 of Will, Dame Judy and Bob from the MHP Premier.

HUGE article to follow ;)

:faint: WOW!!!! These pictures are amazing!!! Thanks so much dor scanning :hyper:

[kayne]

and the last of the 3 new pictures included....



:faint:


Other pictures are 1 from MHP (Yellow and black spotty number from stage show), 1 of Will and G from PI final week (Wearing Vote Will rosette), 1 shot from opening sequence of Evergreen Video and 1 of Will, Dame Judy and Bob from the MHP Premier.

HUGE article to follow ;)

8-O 8-O 8-O 8-O

Thank you Heather, he looks stunning, the best pictures I have seen.

Wish I lived in Glasgow :mrgreen:

[Soulful]

and the last of the 3 new pictures included....



:faint:


Other pictures are 1 from MHP (Yellow and black spotty number from stage show), 1 of Will and G from PI final week (Wearing Vote Will rosette), 1 shot from opening sequence of Evergreen Video and 1 of Will, Dame Judy and Bob from the MHP Premier.

HUGE article to follow ;)

No words.........................

[Heather]

OMG !! :pant:

These look recent ... his hair !! :thud:

This interview was done on the day Shane released TMG, so yes! very recent. Its the opening paragraph of the article. Will type up as soon as I can.

[Bumbling]

Woooo thanks Heather.

Looking forward to HUGE article :cheer:

[gillwill]

Thanks Heather for posting the stunning pics. :thud:

Looks like the facial hair is becoming a permanent feature. :cheer:

Loking forward to reading the article when you get the time.

[*Trix*]

I am completely and utterly speechless - I wonder if you can order back copies of this 8-O 8-O 8-O

Thanks so much for posting.

Elaine
x

Yes thank you so much Heather :faint: and wondering the same Elaine :pray:

[**Charlotte**]

His eyes do look different.They look brown instead of the usual bluey-green :-( .Love pics though.Thanks for posting Heather ;-)

[xShirlx]

Speechless. He is beautiful.

Thank you Heather for taking the trouble.

[Jer]

Oh my word! :faint:

Thanks for posting Heather. :D

[Laineym]

I couldn't resist, I've e-mailed.

magazine@theherald.co.uk

Worth a try ;-)

Elaine
x

[ags_loves_will]

I couldn't resist, I've e-mailed.

magazine@theherald.co.uk

Worth a try ;-)

Elaine
x

:lol: good idea :-P I may have to do that too 8-)

[Bumbling]

How can I buy a past issue or subscribe to The Herald?
Please e-mail your inquiry to circulation@glasgow.newsquest.co.uk or see our Subscription page.
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[bez]

That's so unfair - limiting those gorgeous pics to Scotland 8-O

Thanks Hev :faint:

[ags_loves_will]

How can I buy a past issue or subscribe to The Herald?
Please e-mail your inquiry to circulation@glasgow.newsquest.co.uk or see our Subscription page.
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Have emailed them :oops:

Thanks

[Superstar]

How can I buy a past issue or subscribe to The Herald?
Please e-mail your inquiry to circulation@glasgow.newsquest.co.uk or see our Subscription page.
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I've just sent them an email in the hope of getting a copy, fingers crossed.:pray: :pray:

[Jules]

Those photos are something else!! 8-O

Thanks so much Heather. :hugkiss:

Love Ju xx

[helenswill]

blinkin heck 8-O 8-O 8-O

Thanks Heather for posting :cheer:

[val r]

Thanks Heather,just STUNNING!!!!

[rosj]

Good God, these are wonderful - thanks Heather!

Would love to get a copy of this as well..

[Carolyn]

thanks so much Heather, absolutely stunning, I have e-mailed too.

me thinks they will be inundated :lol:

[penny]

BLIMEY !!!!!!!! Stunning pics .

Thank you so much Heather.

I must try to get a copy of this. :fingers:

[Bumbling]

£2.60 per copy (60p for the paper + £2.00 for postage

[Laineym]

£2.60 per copy (60p for the paper + £2.00 for postage

Julie, have they responded or is that a quote from the paper?

Hope they have plenty of copies printed :mrgreen:

Elaine
x

[Bumbling]

£2.60 per copy (60p for the paper + £2.00 for postage

Julie, have they responded or is that a quote from the paper?

Hope they have plenty of copies printed :mrgreen:

Elaine
x

Its from their "FAQ" page Elaine ;-)

[penny]

£2.60 per copy (60p for the paper + £2.00 for postage

Is that a repy to your email Julie ?

I have emailed :fingers:

[suzzi]

Wow - amazing! Thanks Heather :D

Sue xx

[ballyrluvswill]

This must be the promised article in the 'Scottish' Herald that the offish posted :roll: :lol:

Off out to get a copy now :sonic: (bloody paper boy must have slept in - papers not delivered today :-( - he's a dead man when I see him!! :-x )


Thanks Heather

CCP

Love the Man, Love the Music

Big Thanks Heather for posting gasped out loud when I seen second photo 8-O

ps CCP you lucky duck living in the land where they print this mag ;-)

Bless xxx

[NoWillPower]

Thank you Heather so very much :hugkiss: Stunning pics if not a bit different :mrgreen: I've emailed too!!

[dibarrett]

OMG What stunning pics :-)

Thanks so much Heather for posting them up :hugkiss:

Love
Di
xxx

[madcapmonday]

i must have this 8-O
jo x

[*liz*]

oh my god 8-O 8-O 8-O
he is so beautiful!

If anyone has a spare id love you forever, id pay all the costs!
*liz*

[*Trix*]

£2.60 per copy (60p for the paper + £2.00 for postage

Julie, have they responded or is that a quote from the paper?

Hope they have plenty of copies printed :mrgreen:

Elaine
x

Its from their "FAQ" page Elaine ;-)

Now why didn't I think of that! :lol: Did email a while ago though! Thanks Julie. :D

[Cocopop]

Now, that's what I call a feature! :thud:
6 whole pages of HG!!!!!!!!!!! :faint:

I'm still having hot flushes just touching it :oops: :lol: - you have no idea how beautiful it is in the actual paper! :pant:

This is the 2nd time The Herald has done a huge feature on Will - doncha just luv 'em? :hugkiss:

Off for a lie down in a darkened room now! :lol:

CCP

Love the Man, Love the Music

[Laineym]

Oh god, hope they have plenty of supplies, I'd pay three time the amount for it by the sounds of that 8-)

Elaine
x

[Navan]

Heather, I cannot thank you enough for the scans, 3 of the most amazing picutres I've ever seen of him. I've also emailed.

[suze]

8-O :faint: Wow! stunning photos :faint:
Thanks so much for posting :hugkiss: Looking forward to the article :cheer:
xx Susan

[Bumbling]

Tel number for Backcopies dept ;-)
0141 302 7309

(no one there until Monday tho)

[dibarrett]

Tel number for Backcopies dept ;-)
0141 302 7309

(no one there until Monday tho)

Cheers Julie for the telephone no and for the e mail link :cheer:

Love
Di
xxx

[penny]

Tel number for Backcopies dept ;-)
0141 302 7309

(no one there until Monday tho)

:lol: Just came to post that Julie.

Can`t get it locally :-( Tried everywhere .

[~KazJ~]

Thank you so much, Heather. :hugkiss: Just stunning. :thud:

Shot off and got my copy ........ lovely article too. :D


P.S. Have posted up my attempt at scanning in the pics in 'Picture This'. 8-)

[rosj]

Tel number for Backcopies dept ;-)
0141 302 7309

(no one there until Monday tho)

Cheers Julie for the telephone no and for the e mail link :cheer:

Love
Di
xxx

Thanks Julie - another job for Monday then!! :groover:

[Bumbling]

Thank you so much, Heather. :hugkiss: Just stunning. :thud:

Shot off and got my copy ........ lovely article too. :D


P.S. Have posted up my attempt at scanning in the pics in 'Picture This'. 8-)

Feck Kaz they are AMAZING!! 8-O

[Laineym]

His mouth and eyes are just unbelievable 8-O

Elaine
x

[Bumbling]

Yegods.. 8-O

[~KazJ~]

Thank you so much, Heather. :hugkiss: Just stunning. :thud:

Shot off and got my copy ........ lovely article too. :D


P.S. Have posted up my attempt at scanning in the pics in 'Picture This'. 8-)

Feck Kaz they are AMAZING!! 8-O

They are indeed! 8-)

I got the last copy in the newsagents ....... would have throttled anyone if they had picked it up before I got my paws on it. :-P

[Heather]

Part 1

How’s this for serendipity? The day I met Will is also the day the latest X-Factor winner, Shayne Ward, releases his first single, My Goal. Days later the record claims the Christmas number one spot selling an impressive 313,784 copies on its first day of release. Not bad for a typical Simon Cowell-approved slice of chicken-in-a-basket lachrymosity. In doing so it becomes the 3rd fastest selling single ever, after Elton Johns Candle in the Wind and Evergreen sung by the man soon to be sitting in front of me.


And, of course, it’s almost four years ago – or, if you operate in TV Talent show time, a Girls Aloud, a Michelle McManus, a Steve Brookstien and a Shayne Ward – since Young himself staked a claim to stardom in Pop Idol, beating the Cowell-approved Gareth Gates in the final vote and releasing Evergreen as a result. Like we said, serendipity.

At least, up to a point, Look at that list of names again. Girls Aloud and their pop strumpet charms apart, there aren’t any real winners amongst them. McManus is attempting a comeback this year, but you’d hardly hold out much hope, while Brookstein barely made it in the first place. And as for plucky Gates, well, even he probably doesn’t know what he is up to these days. So what are the odds that Shayne Ward will still be around in four years time?

And yet here is Young, four years in, posing for his photograph in rather a natty private members club in London’s Soho, looking every bit the op star and giving the impression he’s enjoying that fact. Between set-ups and film changes he banters with his stylist and hairdresser, corrects them when they lurch into bad English, discusses Bertolt Brecht and jokes about his ‘gangster days’ at public school (he is very pukka pop star when all is said and done). At one poin I notice the film director Mike Leigh lugubriously shuffling down Greek Street outside, and when I mention it Young rushes to the window and mock shouts: “Cast me, cast me! I could be someone.” He then turns to the rest of us and announces “I love Mike Leigh.” Now and again he breaks out into song, a Scissor Sisters track here, a snatch of Bring Me Sunshine there. “There’s a good vibe today” he says at one point to no-one in particular and everyone in the room , and most of it is coming from himself.

Ask him if four years ago he expected to be in the pop business for the long haul and he says yes, actually. “I don’t know If I was expecting it but I had the belief. I still have the belief. I think you have to have that to do it.” The key thing, he says, is that he hasn’t based his progress on the short term. “I base it on the long term gains and I always have. As soon as I could regain, or actually gain, as much control as I could working with the people around me, my decisions were always based on that. Its actually quite rewarding to think that ‘Okay, well, I’ve made some good decisions and that’s why I am still here.”

Control is the key motif. Youngs willingness to stand up to Cowell’s school bully routine on Pop Idol contributed to his success on the show: since then hes increasingly been able to shape what he does and how he does it. The last single, Switch It On, which he admits was “very different for me” – “footloose by way of Bo Diddley,” according to one reviewer – was one about his management company was not initially sure. “There was conflict about that, but I quite like conflict because if you believe in something then you need to be tested on it.”

Its taken time, through, for Young to be in a positon where he can be tested. “For the first two years I literally thought, ‘Just gain the experience.’ Like I always have in any new situation. I just got my head down and did it.”

[Bumbling]

Thanks Heather....

Great stuff! :cheer:


“I base it on the long term gains and I always have. As soon as I could regain, or actually gain, as much control as I could working with the people around me, my decisions were always based on that. Its actually quite rewarding to think that ‘Okay, well, I’ve made some good decisions and that’s why I am still here.”

[Laineym]

Thanks for this, I think it's going to be a good 'un :-)

Love the Mike Leigh bit "I could be someone" :lol:

Elaine
x

[*Trix*]

Thank you again Heather for typing all that out - what an :angel: and Kaz - those scans............. speechless...........:thud: :bow:


“There’s a good vibe today” he says at one point to no-one in particular and everyone in the room , and most of it is coming from himself.


:bigsnog:

[Fran]

£2.60 per copy (60p for the paper + £2.00 for postage

And worth every penny :hyper: I've e-mailed too :oops: Thanks for posting Heather


Fran
x x

[JanetL]

His mouth and eyes are just unbelievable 8-O

Elaine
x

I know :faint:

Jx

[Carly]

Brilliant, thanks Heather and Kaz for piccies :blowkiss: and to Heather for taking the time to type it up, shuould be a good read when I've got time!

Totally and utterly gorgeous ... I surrender to his beauty - those eyes, those lips, that stubble :faint: - but what is that moustache about Will :nono:

[Jules]

Thanks Heather! You're a star :bigsnog:

[xShirlx]

Thanks Heather for typing this up - you are an angel. xx

[melle]

Heather, thanks so much for taking the time to type this all up :hugkiss:
What an enjoyable read!

[ags_loves_will]

£2.60 bargain!!!! :groover:

Thanks for the type out so far Heather :hyper:

[rosj]

Very good article so far, thanks again Heather - Mike Leigh again :lol: :lol: Give the man a part for God's sake !! :-P

[nannyt]

Woo thats fantastic - thanks Heather for posting. :cheer:

[dibarrett]

That was a great read :cheer:

Thanks Heather :-)

Love
Di
xxx

[Bev]

Thanks so much Heather. :hugkiss:

That phone line is going to be permantently engaged on Monday! :lol:

Doesn't his hair look stunning. Don't know what he's done to it but boy it is looking sensational! :thud:

[suzzi]

Jo Whiley suggested he chased Mike Leigh down the road :D Sounds like it nearly happened 8-O :lol:

He was obviously on top form that day :D . I can imagine he's one of those people who determine the mood of his whole environment and the people around him - that's charisma!

Heather, you are an absolute star - thanks so much!

(Just had furniture delivered and should be sorting it out :oops: )

Sue xx

[dibarrett]

I want this as a poster :faint: :faint: :faint:



Stunning pic :D

Love
Di
xxx

[Keepy]

Oh my god 8-O

:drool:

Thank you so much for posting, Heather ! :hugkiss:

[patsy_01]

8-O :thud: 8-O God he's gorgeous!!!

Thanks Heather :hugkiss:


Pat xx

[hopeless]

Feeling fed up today so thought I would come on here.

WOW what a tonic, thats cheered me up no end.

STUNNING PIC'S of a BEAUTIFUL MAN i'm on top of the world now.

Thank's for sharing, what lovely people you are.xxx

[Me4will4eva]

Gorgeous !! :thud:

one of my favs :mrgreen:

[jackie]

Thanks for typing all that up Heather..great read :cheer:

Have no words for the pics 8-O :faint:

Jackiex

[Will You Naughty Boy]

Aww thanks so much for this Heather ;-) :mrgreen: ;-)




Can only say BLOODY STUNNING RUDDY GORGEOUS :tongue1: :bigsnog:

FLAMING HELLS BELLS WILLIAM HOW HOT DO YOU LOOK :faint: :bow: :pant:

Hopefully will be able to get hold of a copy soon :pray: :fingers:

Luv & Will Hugs

Sue xx

[Lali]

Think I've just about recovered from my first viewing of the pics - which happened to be in Costa Coffee - nearly spat out my tea :lol:

I picked up an extra few copies but am going out later so can pick up another few if there is any left - PM me and I will try and get you one!!!

[ohmygod]

Gorgeous pics :faint: Thanx for posting them and typing the article :-)

[Lulu loves Will]

Can he get anymore gorgeous? Thanks Heather for posting.

[Me4will4eva]

Can he get anymore gorgeous? Thanks Heather for posting.

He gets more gorgeouser ( such word :lol: ) everyday .. but don't ask me how 8-O

[Heather]

Part Two

For a while that meant singing the Pop Idol favourite Evergreen – a song which he never much cared for. “I don’t think that was ever a secret,! He says. “It wasn’t my kind of song, and you have to want to sing songs you have a personal investment in. I didn’t with that song. Its very hard because you feel a bit of a fake. I don’t discredit it for what it did. I its so linked to the show, and that’s why I think it’s a great thing – if I hear it, it reminds me of that winning sho and that’s what the sing is about. Do you know what I mean? Whereas Leave Right Now has a moment attached to it, and that’s the moment where its like, ‘Okay, maybe he’ll stck around.”

He certainly has every intention of doing so. That’s why he has a film career possibly in the offing) he’s stuck a toe into acting – or, as would have it, “a whole leg” – with a role in the film Mrs Henderson Present’s), a third album in the charts and a new single (A ballad called All Time Love) to be released next week. Increasingly he is shaping he own future. “This album is more personal than the last one in every single way,” he says about Keep On, a state of the art pop record that is maybe difficult to really love but is hard not to like. Young co-wrote more than half the tracks on the album and even collaborates with the multi-instrumentalist Nitin Sawhney on one – a song called Home, which is something of an ambient pop gem.

For anyone who’s not been paying attention, Sawheny’s name is not one you’d expect to see associated with Young. But spend any time with the 26-year-old singer and its clear his horizons are a little wider than you might expect – and that extends merely hoping that Mike Leigh calls. “I just got to a place where I could say to people, “look I’m really interested in working with you if you want to work with me,’ and a few of them said yes,” he says. Sawheny was one; Andy Cato from Groove Armada was another. The tracks with cato have yet to emerge, “but I know they will stick around”, says Young.

“When I hear something I think is really interesting, I think, ‘Well, okay, I could work with them.’ Like there’s this new band called Mattafix, who I just think are just great. I have been listening to their album and I’d quite like to get in touch with them.”

Young, then is not the Pop idol clone you might expect. Name dropping rather obscure (but rather good) London neo-trip-hop duos is not the kind of career advice Simon Cowell would give you. But Young, for all that he is firmly anchored in the mainstream (all-round performer is not a tag he is ashamed of, “as long as there is quality to it”) is a more intriguing pop star than the manner of his stardom would suggest. And maybe a more intriguing person too.

[Me4will4eva]

Thanks for typing part two up Heather !! :hugkiss:

Lovely read :D

[ags_loves_will]

:hyeper: thanks Heather :mrgreen:

[*Trix*]

Heather you deserve a medal! :nod2: :blowkiss:

[ags_loves_will]

“When I hear something I think is really interesting, I think, ‘Well, okay, I could work with them.’ Like there’s this new band called Mattafix, who I just think are just great. I have been listening to their album and I’d quite like to get in touch with them.”


Will and Mattafix 8-O :lol: VERY different music style hmmm would be interesting

[pompeyjess]

Gorgeous photos 8-O :thud:

Thanks for posting :hugkiss:, off to read now..

Love

x Jess

[dibarrett]

Thanks Heather for typing Part 2 up-you are a star :cheer:

Love
Di
xxx

[jackie]

Thanks for Part 2 Heather :cheer:

Jackiex

[suze]

Thanks for typing this all up Heather :D
xx Susan

[jaynie]

Thank you Heather that was a lovely read and those pics WOW

[Cocopop]

Finally had a chance to read it now. He does seem really 'together' just now - seems to have worked a lot of things out, and is the stronger for it. :hugkiss:

Overall, quite happy with the article - although maybe a wee bit too much emphasis on his sexuality.................AGAIN!! :roll:

He comes across as very well balanced, ambitious, but still modest!

Think the journo was well impressed by him! Another convert, methinks ;-) :D

Piccies are quite nice too :-P

CCP

Love the Man, Love the Music

[paulinejb]

Thanks Heather for posting up fantastic pics and write up. :cheer: :cheer:
Pauline

[bulldog]

:hugkiss: Thanks so much Heather for the pictures, and all that typing!!

I gasped when I saw this one, he looks beautiful ~





Ask him if four years ago he expected to be in the pop business for the long haul and he says yes, actually. “I don’t know If I was expecting it but I had the belief. I still have the belief. I think you have to have that to do it.” The key thing, he says, is that he hasn’t based his progress on the short term. “I base it on the long term gains and I always have. As soon as I could regain, or actually gain, as much control as I could working with the people around me, my decisions were always based on that. Its actually quite rewarding to think that ‘Okay, well, I’ve made some good decisions and that’s why I am still here.”

He seems very much in the driving seat now - he obviously has a lot of say in what route he goes and how he plays the game.What a star.



Its taken time, through, for Young to be in a positon where he can be tested. “For the first two years I literally thought, ‘Just gain the experience.’ Like I always have in any new situation. I just got my head down and did it.”
That's a really wise attitude, and it must have been hard. What a brilliant upbeat article.
Interesting to hear about his songwriting with other people too - sounds like there are loads more songs 'in storage' :lol: - maybe more B sides, or even for the next album 8-O

Nic xx

[Heather]

Part Three

Before he applied for Pop Idol Will Young was studying politics at Exeter University. “I really got into it at A level, “ he says. “And when I got to University there was probably too much drinking, too much socialising and I was doing a lot more singing. I was doing musicals, organising charity balls, really kind of getting involved in the rest of life other than what I was supposed to be doing. “ Still, he enjoyed what studying he did. “I enjoyed the political theory, “ he says. “I enjoyed the notion of trying to understand why our country and our government is run the way it is, what’s important about democracy, what are the failings, where did they come from, what are the systems in other countries.”

The last book he read was an anti-capitalist collection of statements about our society, which went through the alphabet, taking in commerce, love, marketing and Marxism along the way. “It basically says how capitalism is destroying each one, or how capitalism is using each one. It’s really interesting.”

He’s too sussed to say what his opinions actually are, but is he a political animal? “No. I watch Question Time but I don’t really read the papers. I don’t understand much about many of the issues and was never that interested in them. But I am interested in the movement of power, and I am interested in democracy and people not hijacking democracy for other things, and I think that can happened. I’m more interested in people having a voice”. Does he vote? “Yeah, I did vote in the last election.”

While he’s not quite the Berkshire “toff’ the red-tops had him down as when he won Pop Idol, his background was pretty comfortable. He is one of twins: his brother Rupert, he reckons, is not a bad singer either. His mother, Annabel, “has a nursery”, and his father, Robin, “runs a business”. What kind of business? “Oh it’s quite hard to explain.” Something in engineering it would seem.

Young says he was a pensive child, whatever that means. Music, though, was always part of the programme. His mother in particular always had music on. “The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, the Rolling Stones, Curtis Mayfield, Suzanne Vega……I remember a lot.”
The first record he bought was Kylie Minogue’s first album, “the one with the hat with the hair through it”, He was nine.

There were no other performers in the family, “I think that is even better. I was never pushed into doing it. I see lots of people who do things because of external pressures or their notions of how other people see them. They don’t really things for themselves. And I have always done it for myself, really. Nobody’s ever said, ‘You should do this.’ I’m pleased, in a way, that there are no other performers in my family because it really meant that I knew what I wanted to do. It was not the norm.”

[lizzie]

Thanks Heather .... :bighug:

Fabulous article and stunning pics.

[tigger]

Thanks for the scans and for typing the acticle up :blowkiss:

Those eyes are stunning and that stubble 8-O I could lick him all over! :tongue1: :lol:

He sounded so happy in the interview, seems a really nice journalist we can keep him on the xmas card list.

Just to lower the tone slightly :lol:


“For the first two years I literally thought, ‘Just gain the experience.’ Like I always have in any new situation. I just got my head down and did it.”
8-)

luv
tigger ;-)
xxxxxxxxxxx

lush as ever :cry:

he is lovely :lol:

[Lali]

Finally got over the pics to read the article - some very interesting points - well worth the 90p!!!

Well done Heather on typing it all up - there really was loads!!!

[Cocopop]

Just to lower the tone slightly :lol:


“For the first two years I literally thought, ‘Just gain the experience.’ Like I always have in any new situation. I just got my head down and did it.”
8-)

luv
tigger ;-)
xxxxxxxxxxx[/quote]

dirty girl! :disappointed: ..........but well spotted! :lol:

CCP

[Bumbling]

Thanks Heather... brilliant interview and stunning pics :cheer:

[Lali]

Right I think I have now bought every Herald in my home town :lol:

Between Cocopop and myself we may still have a few spare so if you want one PM me!!!

I'm off out but will back in about 9ish when I will be able to confirm!!!

[Freudian]

Thanks Heather for typing up the article for us......much appreciated...... an intelligent article and stunning pics too! :-)
Thanks also to Lali and Cocopop for going on a spending spree for our benefit!! :hugkiss:

[nanfan]

Thank you so much for those wonderful pictures Heather.......just printed them on glossy photo paper and they have come up a real treat. 8-)

I have a Will photo album which I keep especially for stunning pics of him.....separate from my scrapbook pics etc. ;-)

Thanks also for the article :-)

nanfan x

[Heather]

Part four.

At 11 or 12 he liked the idea of going to drama school, and remembers appearing on stage for the first time in a musical. But for most of the time before Pop Idol, singing remained a private passion. “I think that’s why I was so different in that competition, because I got really exhilarated singing on a microphone. I’d never sung on a microphone. I’d never been on a karaoke.

So why, you wonder, was he ready to step up in front of the television cameras and risk humiliation so readily? “Fro me, its always been about time – and that was the right time. I’d got my degree, I’d gained more experience at university, I’d got a scholarship to drama school – that was going well and I was ready for it. And I’m really pleased I did wait, because I knew what I was about by the time I went into that first audition, and I would not be like this now hadn’t I known what I was about. I’d probably be pretty messed up by the whole thing because it’s a mad job. So its really helped me coming in late.”

Mad job, mad rewards. Presumably Young isn’t worrying about his overdraft too much these days. What, I ask him, is the most extravagant thing he has done with his earnings? “I bought an old car, I bought a 1963 Porsche. I don’t get out in it that much. And that was extravagant. But I thought, ‘You know what? I’ve worked really hard. I love that car. I’m going to get it.”

Does he know how much he’s actually worth? “I do, but I’m not telling you. Its not as much as people suspect. I love these stories where people say, ‘He’s worth £20 million.’ I’m like, “That would be nice.” What’s the most ridiculous rumour he has heard about himself? “If there is anyone who people think is remotely gay, I get attached to them. ‘I know. We’ll attach them to Will Young and that will mean he’s obviously gay.’ That happens quite a lot.” Have these rumours ever mentioned anyone to whom he actually would like to be attached? “Not to date, no.”

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(Yeah I know there is loads 8-O , about halfway now :lol: )

[Bumbling]

Thanks for the latest instalment Heather x ;-)

[lizzie]

I forgot to thank peeps for the phone/email contacts ..

Kaz for her pics too and Cocopop and Lali for their paper hunt.

:mrgreen:

Heather .. what have you bribed the children with while your busy :-P

[thewonderofwill]

Heather - you are an absolute star! :hugkiss:

Fantastic article and such doubly-gorgeous pics! Don't know what else to say just know cause I just picked myself up off the floor after gazing at Pic No.2!! Mr Horny! :pant: :pant:

Thanks also to Lali! :hugkiss:

Luv Brenda x

[melle]

(Yeah I know there is loads 8-O , about halfway now :lol: )

This must cost you ages!! Thanks so much!! Halfway as in 4 is half of 8 8-O or halfway of part four?

What a treat

[Cocopop]

Right I think I have now bought every Herald in my home town :lol:

Between Cocopop and myself we may still have a few spare so if you want one PM me!!!
I'm off out but will back in about 9ish when I will be able to confirm!!!


:nod1:

just a couple, so pm me if you want one :D

CCP

[Suuusiii]

8-O Just brilliant !!!!! :hyper:

Thank you thank you thank you, Heather !!!!! :hugkiss:

[taurus]

Thanks a million Heather the pics are stunning and the article is great reading ..

Lynda xx

[bulldog]

Wow, it keeps coming - thanks Heather!!


Does he know how much he’s actually worth? “I do, but I’m not telling you. Its not as much as people suspect. I love these stories where people say, ‘He’s worth £20 million.’ I’m like, “That would be nice.”

:laughlouder:

[CarrieB]

Have these rumours ever mentioned anyone to whom he actually would like to be attached? “Not to date, no.”


Well it's not likely he would say if they did. :-? Well at least until rumours surface about Orlando Bloom! LOL! Don't they ask daft questions sometimes!

Thanks again Heather, didn't realise there was more. I'm half on here and half on the OS! LOL!

Love Carrie xxxx

[LUNAGIRL]

Heather...I can't thank you enough for typing this fantastic interview up. It's such a great read and the pictures are to die for. 8-O

I've searched everywhere in my town to no avail....not a sniff of it. :-(
Lesley.x

[Morven]

Thanks Heather :D not read it yet will come back another time to :D looks a good read lovely pictures 8-O

[Summertime]

Thanks so much for the pics and article

A brilliant read

Linda x

[dibarrett]

Another Part :D

Thanks Heather :hugkiss:

Love
Di
xxx

[The Nightingale]

What a beautiful picture, truly stunning!!!! :faint: :faint: :bigsnog: :thud: :thud:

Such a fantastic interview as well, really enjoyed reading it! :D

Thank you so much for typing all this up and scanning the gorgeous pics Heather, it's hugely appreciated!! :cheer: :cheer:

[thewonderofwill]

Sod the housework, not been able to keep away from these!

This one says ..... "Oops, am I being naughty, turning you on like this? Rather enjoy it!" Wicked Will! :lol:



Luv Brenda x

[Carolyn]

thanks for typing it all up Heather

[papage]

Im SO GRATEFUL to all the people on this site who bring us instant new of Will-----downloads,scans,chart updates etc etc
Need to check at least twice a day and theres always some thing new.
Many,many thanks
Ann

[barbieb]

Fascinating reading, thanks for typing it all up Heather.

lol from Barbara

[ags_loves_will]

Thanks for part 4 Heather :mrgreen:

[diary4thoughts]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!! Why, the only time they do something nice about Will in Scotland am I always in a different bloody country! And WHY have I not had a reply from my father demanding he run out to the shops to get a copy and post it. And that was early this morning! grrrrrrrrrrr


But thank you soooooooooooooooooooooo much Heather for typing and scanning. They are THE most sexual pictures of Will (and anyone) I have seen in my life! I LOVE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please please Daddy, please have got a copy!

How cool is his ring watch, I used to have one like that, years ago! He's bringing it back in fashion...... or just catching up, i'm not sure?!!?!

Jillx x

[Heather]

Heather .. what have you bribed the children with while your busy :-P

In between parts I am making a Lava lamp with one, dough glazed bears with another, feeding coffee and treats to hubby who is watching over baby and other is doing homework 8-O :-P

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Part five.


How’s this for serendipity? The day of this interview is also the day of the first civil partnership ceremonies to take place in England. Young has been to one this morning, the ‘wedding’ of a friend (not Elton, in case your wondering). “It was really nice. I think it’s a good moment in time. Think of all those people who fought for that and fought for their rights”.

Young , as we all know, is gay and though he isn’t planning a wedding of his own in the near future (he doesn’t have a partner at the moment, he says, and if the papers are to be believed he’s only really had one serious partner in the last six years), he’s obviously comfortable enough with people knowing it. Unless you find the prospect of Judi Dench saying the f-word amusing, one of the few genuine laughs in Ms Henderson Present’s (which is otherwise a dire bit of heritage cinema and a rare misfire by director Stephen Frears) is when Dench asks Young if he is enjoying the sight of all the scantily clad women up on the stage of the Windmill theatre. “I have other inclinations”, he replies with a smile. On his album Young sings the line “happiness is being gay” , while the video for Switch It On is a play on what we now know, mainly thanks to Quentin Tarantino, to be one of the prime homoerotic cinematic test of the last two decades, Top Gun (key line: “Man, you can ride my tail, any time!”)

It probably says as much about our culture as it does about Young himself that he’s able to guy (ahem) his image as a ‘gay pop star’ sp readily. There was a time – and not that long ago if you consider a star like George Michael – when coming out was something to be avoided, something that could threaten your career. For Young, though, it seemed small potatoes. “I don’t think it was a big deal. Look, my audience doubled from the first album to the second album.” That is not to say he he’s blasé about it: “I think there’s a way to go. People can always open their minds more. And I’m not just talking sexuality. I’m talking race, religion, all that stuff. But I have had it a lot easier than a lot of artists in previous years, and maybe I was a bit of a marker for that”.

Young came out to his family and friends when he was 20. Did he know he was gay as a teenager? “I think I did know but it takes a while to sort it all out in your head. Twenty was the time I was really aware of it and ready to do something about it. In the end it’s a ‘wonderful feeling’ when you can share everything with others. And actually people don’t care. I always say what Matt Lucas says when he is doing that character in little Britain: ‘I’m the only gay in the village’, he thinks it is the most important thing in the world and then he comes out and everyone’s like, ‘Okay, firstly, I knew that and secondly I’m not really interested.’ I just think it’s so true.” Was that his own experience? “Yeah, probably it was. You think it’s a big deal and everyone’s like, ‘Okay, fine. Now where are we going for lunch?’

Young says he would have come out publicly, but of course he wasn’t given much choice. “I was going to anyway, two weeks after, but a certain repulsive paper pushed it.” So he did a story with the News of the World. The thinking was, he says, “Why not get it out of the way? Let’s move on.”
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Heather

[Freudian]

Oh Heather ...you are a little marvel!! :D
It's just going on and on and on......brilliant :D

[Bumbling]

Thanks Heather..... its nice you have drip fed us today its been lovely. ;-)

[gillwill]

Can't thank you enough Heather for typing this wonderful article up. :hugkiss:

[dibarrett]

Thanks Heather..... its nice you have drip fed us today its been lovely. ;-)

It has hasn't it Julie-bit like reading a great book and can't wait for the next chapter :-)

Love
Di
xxx

[Jillybean]

Thank you Heater and everyone. I'm loving reading the interview and Will with a beard is incredibly sexy- gorgeous eyes!!!!!!!! Jillx

[Jillybean]

Apologies Heather as i know you aren't a heater!!!! Jillx

[100% perfection!]

Thankyou for posting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[will.rocks.my.socks]

phwoaaar 8-O :faint: :lol:

and thanks for the article too :mrgreen:

xx

[lau luvs willyum]

Thankyou Heather, great article and gorgeous pictures :drool:

[Trish]

Thanks Heather for posting the pix and the article :D

[Panther]

Thanks from me too Heather :mrgreen:

[granny]

:cheer:

Thank you so so much for taking the time to type up the article, Heather. I really appreciate it. Lush pics and very interesting read. Wish I could get hold of a copy.

Kate :D

[Heather]

I am glad you have not minded the 'drip feed', twas the best I could manage LOL! Can't belive its taken this long :-P

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Part six

And what is encouraging is that he was able to do so. Does he get any homophobic imbeciles bothering him? “Hardly any. Really, hardly any. And if it does happen it’s a bit like water off a ducks back.” Also, he says, when it does happens its not from the people you’d expect, the builder, the guy in the street, they are the ones who tend to be gracious rather than giving him grief. “I’m walking down the street and a guy shouts out from his van, ‘well done, well done, my wife loves you, I love you, I don’t mind you sleep with men.’ And to me that’s great. Someone said to me the other day, ‘I’m not gay will, I’m not but if I was: you’re a beautiful man. I’d think about it.’ I said, ‘You know what? That’s the best thing anyone’s said to me in a long time.”

Without getting carried away – the horrific murder of young barman Jody Dobrowski on Clapham Common last October is the worst kind of reminder that homophobia still exists in the UK today – Young’s story is, as he says, something of a marker. Think back 20 years. Would it have been possible then for a gay pop star (whether out and proud like Jimmy Somerville or seemingly in denial like Elton John) to think their sexuality was not that important, either commercially or personally? Yet that is exactly how it is for Young. He is not, he says, defined by his sexuality – nor, he adds, by his class. “It’s none of those things. I refuse to be stereotyped and I refuse to stereotype myself. I think people find that harder to swallow. I think they still do, even four years on. They look at me and say, ‘I don’t understand. You’re this and you’re that. What is he? And I think that’s fantastic. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘You’re this person.’

“I don’t want to base who I am on class or crumbling notions of what class or political learning’s or sexuality or what music I listen to. I remember going to see the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and someone came up to me and said ‘What are you doing here?’ Well, I was coming to concerts before you. And it’s just so interesting that this 16 year old was like’ But you’re this. You shouldn’t be there, you should be there.’ And it’s about that.

In our time together, this is the only time Young raises his voice. He is horrified by the idea that anyone can sum him up by the food he eats or the car he drives. “It’s a hard parcel for me, but then my music is the same.”

[LUNAGIRL]

What a fabulous interview!! Why couldn't it have been in a paper that all regions could aquire it...it's so frustrating.

I'm amazed at your dexterity in typing this up and dealing with your family too Heather. 8-O I'm so grateful to you!! :D
Lesley.x

[ags_loves_will]

Aww thanks you so much Heather :hugkiss:

Lovely interview :mrgreen:

[Soulful]

Fabulous.............thankyou Heather :D :D

[CarrieB]

In between parts I am making a Lava lamp with one, dough glazed bears with another, feeding coffee and treats to hubby who is watching over baby and other is doing homework



Blimey, you're amazing Heather. Great to read such a detailed interview.

Love Carrie xxxx

[Lindylobs]

Thank You xx LOBBY XX

[Chris T.]

Thanks Bumbling - you can see his green eyes in this - they look the colour of gemstones :oops:

Oh blimey 8-O

Heather thank you for typing that out you're an angel.

[*clairek]

Heather,thanks so much for all your hard work in typing all this up :hugkiss: :hugkiss: .
Do you think William has been reading our posts :lol: :lol: as he
must know how we all love his eyes & lips,so is focusing on them
when ever he does a photo shoot,even on cd/uk the close up of
his eyes :pant: :pant:
What a great article,made my day,week actually :cheer: :cheer: Shirl

[Sky_WillLightsMyFire]

Stunningly beautiful pictures :thud: :thud:
Thank you for posting Heather and thank you for typing up the interview, it was a lovely read. :D

Skyler x

[Heather]

Part seven.

So if its not class, sexual orientation, politics or material goods that define Will Young then what is it?

“It’s got to be my beliefs. You must always push yourself to attain the best possible results and not be afraid of failure. Never sitting on my laurels. Always treat people with respect, no matter who it is – and not just because I do this job. Not feeling I can be rude to people because I can get away with it, because it will come crashing down on me. Treat people how you expect to be treated, and hopefully be a good friend, a good family member, a good boyfriend. That is what I live by.”

A good boyfriend? Well, he doesn’t seem to be in a hurry. When was the last time he was chatted up? “Maybe Monday night.” He was at a party. “I might be arrogant in saying that.”

Although he says he has to check himself for egotism, Young doesn’t come across as arrogant. He has the drive and ambition to be successful – but, it seems not, the desire to be famous. He doesn’t live or die by his appearances in the pages of Heat magazine or the Sun’s Bizarre column. It helps that after all the hard work he is now more comfortable in his work and his life. “I really am at a place where I know what I’m about and I haven’t had that so much before.

The thing that surprised him most about fame, he says, is the press – “how the press works, and how so many things are untrue. I remember being quite disillusioned by that, not for myself but more for society. My God, I just didn’t realise they’ve got to seek a paper every day and the stuff that goes in…I mean, its laughable.”



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last part coming up shortly :cheer:

[dibarrett]

Awwwwwwww I'm really sorry it's coming to an end Heather-really enjoyed you posting it up in parts :cheer:

What a great interview :-)

Love
Di
xxx

[vasil]

Thanks Heather for typing the article Its very long but very interesting to read :-) .

[Cocopop]

Any Scots exiles out there? There's a free Celtic/Rangers poster in the Herald today................and I've got 43 of the damn things! :roll: :lol:

CCP

Love the Man, Love the Music

[Carly]

last part coming up shortly :cheer:

Heather, you're an absolute angel typing all this up :blowkiss:


There's a free Celtic/Rangers poster in the Herald today................and I've got 43 of the damn things!

8-O :lol:

No idea what to do with the posters but you could easily wallpaper your house with Will :-P


When was the last time he was chatted up? “Maybe Monday night.” He was at a party. “I might be arrogant in saying that.”

:laughlouder:

[Heather]

Last part…..


The nicest person he’s met in pop, he says, is Robbie Williams. Would he ever want a career at Williams’s level? “I suppose I do from the part of me that’s like ‘must be more successful, must attain more’. I don’t think I’d ever get there, though. It’s not that I shouldn’t aim for that, but I just think…” He pauses for a moment. “Maybe I don’t have the belief yet to do that. I don’t really think about other people. Or I really try not to. I try to think about what I am doing, otherwise you would always compare. “That person sold more – I need to be like that.’ I try not to be like that but it is hard as you can’t help but look and go, I’m here in the charts but I want to be where Robbie is or Eminem is.’ And its like, ‘Okay, listen, be happy with your lot.”

In just over 3 years time Will Young will be 30. By then he’d like to have done a show on television, “some kind of performance thing, maybe a kind of Pennies from Heaven thing, lived in New York for a bit and maybe done a Broadway show. He is too old he says to be worried about what is cool. And anyway, what is cool? It’s not about wearing a particular brand of trainers or listening to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers or not appearing in a TV talent shows. “I think what I’ve learnt is that cool is individuality, and I think cool is being comfortable with yourself. “

All of which would suggest that Will Young might just be the coolest person in pop right now..

Teddy Jamieson



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That's all folks! :-P

[jackie]

Heather, you are an absolute star typing all that up...thank you so much :hugkiss:

Really enjoyed reading that...what a lovely, down to earth guy he is :kisscheek:

Jackiex

[LUNAGIRL]

Wow!!! Thank you Heather....really appreciated all of your hardwork. :D
Lesley.x

[speccie]

Terrific read and the photos.... 8-O :-P :-P stunning!!THANKYOU Heather, the busiest people always seem to find time to do more !!! :mrgreen: maggiexx Will also try my luck with getting a copy!

[Sky_WillLightsMyFire]

Thanks for the last parts of the interview Heather :D

Skyler x

[jeanb]

Thanks Heather for typing all that up very good read :D

[Lali]

:crazy:

Wish you hadn't started something :lol:

[Laineym]

Heather I just want to say a big heartfelt thank you for all the work you've done in typing this up for us today. You are a star :-)

And a big thank you to Lali and Cocopop as well for splurging on all those papers. Your newsagents must have wondered what hit them :mrgreen:

A very good article and I do feel very reassured that Will seems to be in a much better place now. He deserves to be, he's earned it imho.

Elaine
x

[gillwill]

Brilliant read.

Thanks again Heather. :hugkiss:

[suzzi]

That was a great interview - he really impressed Teddy :D Fantastic summing up sentence 8-)

Thanks for all your hard work heather!

Sue xx

[AudreySAfrica]

Im SO GRATEFUL to all the people on this site who bring us instant new of Will-----downloads,scans,chart updates etc etc
Need to check at least twice a day and theres always some thing new.
Many,many thanks
Ann

I can only second that sentiment. Heather you're the best, between this write up and the videos, we really are kept up to date with the latest in Will world. Those pictures are the best I have ever seen of him in non-smiling mode. To die for.

[moby]

What a fabulous read :cheer: Thankyou so much for typing all that out, Heather :kisscheek: (I'll forgive the typos ;-) :lol: ) As for the pics :drool: Those eyes - couldn't you just drown in them:drool:

Mo

[bulldog]

Thanks so much Heather :hugkiss: - those last few parts were the most interesting for me.



At 11 or 12 he liked the idea of going to drama school, and remembers appearing on stage for the first time in a musical. But for most of the time before Pop Idol, singing remained a private passion. “I think that’s why I was so different in that competition, because I got really exhilarated singing on a microphone. I’d never sung on a microphone. I’d never been on a karaoke.

:happycry: I find that so lovely - never been on karaoke even - how brave was he to do PI.


He is not, he says, defined by his sexuality – nor, he adds, by his class. “It’s none of those things. I refuse to be stereotyped and I refuse to stereotype myself. I think people find that harder to swallow. I think they still do, even four years on. They look at me and say, ‘I don’t understand. You’re this and you’re that. What is he? And I think that’s fantastic. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘You’re this person.’ I don’t want to base who I am on class or crumbling notions of what class or political learning’s or sexuality or what music I listen to.
I find that the most fascinating and brilliant thing about Will - you can't 'sum him up'. It's true people always want to put others into boxes :evil: The class issue is a real irritant - I love how he blows it out of the window :bow:


I remember going to see the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and someone came up to me and said ‘What are you doing here?’ Well, I was coming to concerts before you. And it’s just so interesting that this 16 year old was like’ But you’re this. You shouldn’t be there, you should be there.’ And it’s about that.
A 16 year old - little twerp :lol:


“I think what I’ve learnt is that cool is individuality, and I think cool is being comfortable with yourself.
Soooo true - it's the bestest way to be :lol:

What a fab interview, I love his honesty and bloody determination. Thanks again Heather.

Nic xx

[Heather]

Any Scots exiles out there? There's a free Celtic/Rangers poster in the Herald today................and I've got 43 of the damn things! :roll: :lol:
CCP



Likewise :lol: :lol:


:crazy:

Wish you hadn't started something :lol:

Yip :falloffchair:




(I'll forgive the typos ;-) :lol: )

Mo

:roll: DAM!! I tried hard under pressure, not being any kind of typist, not to have too
many :oops: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :nana:

Heva :-P

[Soulful]

Thankyou Heather for your time and energy keeping us all happy, I really appreciate it :D :D :D

[Jules]

Heather, I love you! Thank you so much for all your hard work for us! :hugkiss:

That was a great article, I really enjoyed reading it!! :mrgreen:

Ju xxx

[pinklady]

great pics and superb interview.Thanks B for getting my copy and to Heather for typing it all out.

It pays to have friends in high places - i.e Glasgow

[granny]

:cheer:

Oh bless him, and you Heather for typing all that up! That last bit made me want to cry - I can just imagine him trying not to mind his album chart position and just concentrating on what he does best. I never fail to be amazed by this man, he is so beautiful, so talented and such an individual. He is the coolest man, not just in pop, but in the world!

Kate :D

[Lali]

great pics and superb interview.Thanks B for getting my copy and to Heather for typing it all out.

It pays to have friends in high places - i.e Glasgow

Us scots have some uses :lol:

Cocopop wrote:

Any Scots exiles out there? There's a free Celtic/Rangers poster in the Herald today................and I've got 43 of the damn things!
CCP


Heather wrote:

Likewise :lol: :lol:

Think between the three of us we could probably paper both Ibrox and Parkhead with them - although I will now need to retrieve my 50 odd out the recycle bin which is now full :lol:

[~Ruthie~]

Thanks so much Heather for typing all of that up to share with us x we really appreciate it x :hugkiss:

Fabulous read and stunning pictures, love the beard :thud:

[Me]

Just seen this.
Oh my God,he looks wonderfull!!!!!

Thankyou so much for posting!!

[Sandra Loves Will]

Oooh, I've been dying to read this since the piccies were posted this morning but I had so much on, this is the first chance I've had.

Thank you so much Heather for typing all that up :hugkiss:
What a great interview and another insight into the enigma that is Will Young.

I really am going to stop worrying about this man ;-) He knows where he's at, he's comfortable with himself and his career and he's one of those people, who literally does seem to have been sprinkled with Stardust, the moment he was bornl :D


Sandra xxx

[pinklady]

Lali,all you lovely Scots lassies are always so helpful.

Hope your recycle bin doesn't create a major catastrophe!

[Jillybean]

Heather,I've just popped back to read the last installments. Thank you so much. It has been one of the very best articles. I worried so much for Will before Christmas but his publicity after Christmas belies all my worries. He knows who he is and what he wants. Jillxxx

[dibarrett]

Thanks Heather for typing up this wonderful interview-you put me to shame :oops: not only have you taken the time to type it all up but you helped your children and looked after hubby as well-whilst I have been drooling over all the great pics you posted up :cheer: most of the day :oops: :oops: :mrgreen:

Thanks once again :-)

Love
Di
xxx

[diane]

Heather --- thank you SOOOOO much for giving up your time to bring us that. It was a fantastic interview. Why, oh why can't we see that on general release?

Anyway --- THANK YOU!
I'll be ringing them on Monday to order a back copy :lol: :lol: :lol:

D xx

[rosj]

What a great read - I went out after Part 2 and assumed that was it so I was amazed when I next logged on to see how much more you'd typed up Heather, many many thanks!! :cheer: :cheer:

[dee dee]

Thank you Heather for all your hard work typing up these mammoth pages. Is it me or does anyone else think looking at the cover shot, Ashley looks more like his twin than Rupert does :D

Dee Dee

[The Nightingale]

All of which would suggest that Will Young might just be the coolest person in pop right now..



Absolutely, and Will is so right in what he says, individuality is cool and Will is certainly one of a kind.... a true individual!! :D I've always found those kind of people so attractive though, not just in a sexual sense, in a social way as well, free people...... free spirits I suppose!! :happycry: :bravo:

What a fascinating interview, a real insight... 8-)

Fancy Will saying he's old already, bless him!! :lol: :hugkiss:

Once again thank you so much for typing the whole article up Heather, you must have saw fingers by now. :lol: :stroke: :hugkiss:

[**Charlotte**]

What a great and open interview.A lovely read.Thanks for typing this up Heather :mrgreen:

I think the journo has finally been converted :-)

As for this.... :drool:



DDG :faint: :drool: ....His eyes and hair :happycry: :tongue1: :speechless: :thud: :grooving: :thud: :grooving:

[WillsNo1Fan]

Wow!!! That was great!! took me agggggggggeeeeeesss to read!!!!......OMFG those pictures!!! :thud:

The Pennies From Heaven style thing would be brilliant, I think he would be well suited to that!!!

Thanks for posting!!!.......whoever called him a "beautiful man" was so so right!!!, I love him!!! :hugkiss:

[SweetWilliamFan]

What a great read..thanks for posting..will phone up for that on monday!!!!...it's a must have 8-O

[patsy_01]

Thank you so much for typing all that up!!! :hugkiss:
What a lovely interview! and a very lovely man :bigsnog:

Pat xx

[moby]

I'm fascinated by the reflection in his eyes in this pic - looks like a man standing in a window or doorway. Probably just the photographer but I'm imagining all sorts of things ;-) :lol:

Mo

[Mrs Puddleduck]

Thank you so much Heather for all your typing work and sharing this wonderful article. :D This is a tremendous read and the pictures are fantastic. I've really enjoyed this. :cheer:

Val x

[staffysue]

:D Thank you so very much for your typing marathon (and again for posting piccys)that was a very interesting piece, maybe British journalists are starting to THINK about their questions a wee bit more. love Sue x

[funkydoriee]

This boy just keeps giving me more and more reasons to love him!!!!

Firstly, he knows and can hold a coversation about Bertolt Brecht!! You ask most guys who he is and they think it's some sort of beer!
Secondly he loves Mettafix!!!!! I thought it was just me! LOL.
And Rupert can sing!! I reeeeaaaaaaaaallllly need to hear that!!! Lol.
Beautiful photo's, amazing article!!!! I'm just completely in love right now, he's totally amazing and such an unbelievably intelligent, funny and kind guy!!!

He blows me away more and more everytime he's interviewed. Just frigging love him!

Ams xxxxx

[Cal]

Heather :hugkiss:

What a marathon typing session you've had today. 8-O

Thank you so much for taking the trouble to do this.

Absolutely stunning pics and a fabulous interview as well. :D

[Willthecreammachine]

Thanks so much for this Heather :hugkiss:

[dibarrett]

Who is Bertolt Brecht!! :oops: I hold my hand up and say I've never heard of him :oops:

Love
Di
xxx

[melle]

Who is Bertolt Brecht!! :oops: I hold my hand up and say I've never heard of him :oops:

Love
Di
xxx
He's a German playwriter and poet. Remember the Dreigroschenoper or the Three penny opera as you might call it? He wrote that. I'm sure you know the song Mackie Messer or Mack the Knife?
That's a song from the Dreigroschenoper. Kurt Weil did the music.

Didn't Gareth Gates sing it on PI?

[Bumbling]

Heather I just want to say a big heartfelt thank you for all the work you've done in typing this up for us today. You are a star :-)

And a big thank you to Lali and Cocopop as well for splurging on all those papers. Your newsagents must have wondered what hit them :mrgreen:

A very good article and I do feel very reassured that Will seems to be in a much better place now. He deserves to be, he's earned it imho.

Elaine
x


Ditto Elaine..

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[xShirlx]

Just read all 6 parts - good lord Heather you must be exhausted, thank you so much :hugkiss:

[Jules]

Just read all 6 parts - good lord Heather you must be exhausted, thank you so much :hugkiss:

You missed two! 8-) :-P

[xShirlx]

Just read all 6 parts - good lord Heather you must be exhausted, thank you so much :hugkiss:

You missed two! 8-) :-P

:-o :-o How did that happen hahaha scanning through again. Heather you are more than a marvel you have demon fingers.

Thanks Jules :D

[annetta]

Great read!!! Thank you so much heather for typing it up.

[dibarrett]

Who is Bertolt Brecht!! :oops: I hold my hand up and say I've never heard of him :oops:

Love
Di
xxx
He's a German playwriter and poet. Remember the Dreigroschenoper or the Three penny opera as you might call it? He wrote that. I'm sure you know the song Mackie Messer or Mack the Knife?
That's a song from the Dreigroschenoper. Kurt Weil did the music.

Didn't Gareth Gates sing it on PI?

Cheers Melle for the info abot Bertolt Brecht-GG did sing that song on the Band Week from PI 1-will have to do a Google Search for more info about this playwriter/poet

Love
Di
xxx

[*lucy*]

:crazyeyes: :hyper: :smooch: Very Shocked :kisslips: :kisscheek: :blowkiss: :cutie: :dominatrix: :drool: :faint: :flash: :bigsnog: :pant: :shimmy: :sexy: :eek2: :thud: :newwink: :speechless: :tongue1: :thumbsup: :stroke: :grindance: :cloud:

my GOD those pictures 8-O 8-O 8-O 8-O 8-O

i still havent recovered and I first clicked on this thread about an hour ago 8-O

and thank you SO much heather for typing it out :hugkiss:

[Bev]

Heather, you're a star, thank you so much. :hugkiss:




Never sitting on my laurels.

William, you don't sit on them, you rest on them!! :roll:


Pennies from Heaven! OMG I should love to see him do something like Dennis Potter. :pray:

[Gill2002]

Thank you very much Heather for typing it all up!

Luv Gill XX

[WILLYUMCRAZY]

What an incredible interview. Such a beautiful, intelligent, cool man.

Thanks so much for typing this up Heather.

[Julie C]

Thank you so much for writing all that up Heather, much appreciated. :D

Enjoyed that and the pics are gorgeous :cheer:

[janet black]

wow thankyou so much heather :hurray:
the pictures are to die for :thud:
will be on the phone monday morning :D

love janetxxx

[Freudian]

Will gives a very interesting insight into his life, work and aspirations but I hope if he ever gets to meet Mike Leigh that he ( i.e. Mike Leigh!) isn't as rude, arrogant and pretentious as some of the contributors to the Mike Leigh message boards on the imdb site seem to think he is! :-? :-(

[young at heart mary]

Thanks so much heather for typing it up :D

Absolutely amazing and mind blowing!!

[Gill]

Thank you so much for typing the article Heather. I have copied it all into Word and will read it at my leisure. And thank you for the photographs which are stunning! :lol:

[*maggie*]

Blimey Heather that must have taken ages 8-O many thanks for going to all that trouble. :blowkiss:

I thought this bit was interesting

Would he ever want a career at Williams’s level? “I suppose I do from the part of me that’s like ‘must be more successful, must attain more’. I don’t think I’d ever get there, though. It’s not that I shouldn’t aim for that, but I just think…” He pauses for a moment. “Maybe I don’t have the belief yet to do that. I don’t really think about other people. Or I really try not to. I try to think about what I am doing, otherwise you would always compare. “That person sold more – I need to be like that.’ I try not to be like that but it is hard as you can’t help but look and go, I’m here in the charts but I want to be where Robbie is or Eminem is.’ And its like, ‘Okay, listen, be happy with your lot.”

Teddy Jamieson didn't think much of MHP then. :lol:

[cowgirl]

Thankyou so much Heather :cheer: :D :angel: :littleangel: :bravo: :biglips: :grindance: :hurray: :rock: :nod1: :nod2: :thumbsup: :hugkiss: it made my day reading it all as i had slipped on the stairs earlier and was feeling sorry for myself :-( and my sis lives in Glasgow and could i get hold of her :-?

[Vix]

Thanks, Heather

Fantastic read

[kissed by Will]

[quote="Chris T."]

Thanks Bumbling - you can see his green eyes in this - they look the colour of gemstones :oops:

Oh blimey 8-O
You can see the reflection of a person in his eyes, outlined by a window - l've not studied ithis picture in depth mind you :oops:

surely a perfect photo? the mouth, the eyes, beard, just everything

[JanetL]

That photo has to be one of my all-time favourites. His eyes are just beautiful. I love the the precise inner corners of his eyelids - very cat-like.

Jx

[Chris T.]

That photo has to be one of my all-time favourites. His eyes are just beautiful. I love the the precise inner corners of his eyelids - very cat-like.

Jx

They are aren't they I've always been struck by the shape of his his eyes. They say eyes are the windows to the soul - William has beautiful eyes :oops:

[Laineym]

That photo has to be one of my all-time favourites. His eyes are just beautiful. I love the the precise inner corners of his eyelids - very cat-like.
Jx

I know Janet, that part of his eyes has always fascinated me - do you think I need help :roll:

Elaine
x

[Nellie]

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this article. Thanks for posting.

[*Pamela*]

damn i missed gettin a copy !!! :-(

thanks for typing up and pics :mrgreen: ;-)

[Me4will4eva]

His eyes are just :thud:

[CarrieB]

That photo has to be one of my all-time favourites. His eyes are just beautiful. I love the the precise inner corners of his eyelids - very cat-like.
Jx

I know Janet, that part of his eyes has always fascinated me - do you think I need help :roll:

Elaine
x

Yes, I only just noticed that on these photos actually, he has got beautiful eyes but I have tended to take him in visually as a whole rather than notice precise details. But I also noticed recently that he has a little groove between his nostrils. Noticing these little details make his face even the more adorable but I think maybe we do need help! LOL! LOL! :D

Love Carrie xxxx

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[Laineym]

That photo has to be one of my all-time favourites. His eyes are just beautiful. I love the the precise inner corners of his eyelids - very cat-like.
Jx

I know Janet, that part of his eyes has always fascinated me - do you think I need help :roll:

Elaine
x

Yes, I only just noticed that on these photos actually, he has got beautiful eyes but I have tended to take him in visually as a whole rather than notice precise details. But I also noticed recently that he has a little groove between his nostrils. Noticing these little details make his face even the more adorable but I think maybe we do need help! LOL! LOL! :D

Love Carrie xxxx

.

LMAO, well at least I'm not on my own then :mrgreen: How much is professional counselling these days ;-)

Elaine
x

[JanetL]

That photo has to be one of my all-time favourites. His eyes are just beautiful. I love the the precise inner corners of his eyelids - very cat-like.
Jx

I know Janet, that part of his eyes has always fascinated me - do you think I need help :roll:

Elaine
x

Yes, I only just noticed that on these photos actually, he has got beautiful eyes but I have tended to take him in visually as a whole rather than notice precise details. But I also noticed recently that he has a little groove between his nostrils. Noticing these little details make his face even the more adorable but I think maybe we do need help! LOL! LOL! :D

Love Carrie xxxx

.

LMAO, well at least I'm not on my own then :mrgreen: How much is professional counselling these days ;-)

Elaine
x
It's a form of OCD :-P . A compulsion to keep logging onto Devoted for news and photos :oops: .
I'm resigned to the fact I've been in the grips of an obsession for the last 4 years. I can't control it- it controls me :oops: :lol:

Jx
Jx

[Chris T.]

But I also noticed recently that he has a little groove between his nostrils. Noticing these little details make his face even the more adorable but I think maybe we do need help! LOL! LOL!

Love Carrie xxxx


:lol: pleymo was asking about the groove above his lip in Picture This the other day. It has a name too - apparently it's called the philtrum. It looks like the groove on his nose carries on from that. Thanks to investigation by *lucy* :D

We are a sad lot :lol:

[Hannelore]

Thank you so much Heather for typing it all up.
A very interesting interview and stunning pictures.
What an intelligent and lovely person.

Anne

[Jimmy]

Thank you so much for typing that up - :hugkiss: 2 u!
Good interview - the fact that he mentioned RHCP quite a few times, didn't know he liked that their music :D

Thnx again! Jimmy

[DEBBIE G]

Thanks for taking the time to type up that lovely article Heather.
:kisscheek: .....and as for the pics :thud: :pant: ..lol
Debs xx

[cowgirl]

Can not beleive it tried to get hold of my sis who lives in glasgow yesterday and couldnt but spoke to her today and she was reading the Herald in a pub yesterday and she saw the article and thought my sis would love this but didnt dear take it from there. I dont think I have her trained enough ;-) :roll: :-? But she did say she will ask around for me :lol:

[Lali]

****IMPORTANT NOTICE****

Please note that both mine and Cocopop's lists for a copy of the Herald are separate - if you have requested a copy from both of us and only require one copy can you please PM ONE of us that you no longer require a copy as we both have reserve lists and it wouldn't be fair for some members to miss out!!!

Basically we both have very long lists and its all getting a bit :crazy:!!!

[Jezabel]

That photo has to be one of my all-time favourites. His eyes are just beautiful. I love the the precise inner corners of his eyelids - very cat-like.



:lol: :lol: . I'm so glad that somebody else studies him like this. I've had the Marie Claire picture glued to my nose for two weeks now and those cat- like inner corners have had me transfixed.

I keep remembering that phrase the journalist from Marie Claire used, 'His Bambi -like gaze has the lambent seduction of a young Truman Capote'. Yes, it certainly does and then some :drool: .

These pics are more masculine, they are more darkly lit, but soooo seductive. Behind all the scruffiness, he really is such an elegant man.

For those of you who have been lucky enough to meet him, I honestly don't know how you coped with looking into his eyes, I think my entrails would melt :lol: .

Jezxx

[openarms]

Great article. I was impressed with how he mentioned he's happy with his life now. The pictures are lovely, esp. the first one with the gorgeous eyes!

[fr1day5ch1ld]

I Love these kind of articles! they are so intelligent and the questions are much better than the ones you usually get in magazines!

GORGEOUS PICS! :thud:

Thanks for taking the time to type that all up Heather! :D

xxxxxxx

[Bev]

For those of you who have been lucky enough to meet him, I honestly don't know how you coped with looking into his eyes, I think my entrails would melt


It takes some doing Jez. Those green eyes seem to look right into your soul, believe me. I only hope he can't figure out what we are thinking!!! :oops: :lol:

[tillywhim]

For those of you who have been lucky enough to meet him, I honestly don't know how you coped with looking into his eyes, I think my entrails would melt :lol: .

Jezxx

This is a perfect description Jez and it may explain the very warm feeling I get sometimes when I study him sometimes 8-)

I envy the ones whove been right up close getting his autograph - I've only got to within a few feet in the open air concerts, and that was disconcerting enough!!! Think I would hyperventilate looking into those eyes :thud:

[SweetWilliamFan]

For those of you who have been lucky enough to meet him, I honestly don't know how you coped with looking into his eyes, I think my entrails would melt :lol: .

Jezxx

This is a perfect description Jez and it may explain the very warm feeling I get sometimes when I study him sometimes 8-)

I envy the ones whove been right up close getting his autograph - I've only got to within a few feet in the open air concerts, and that was disconcerting enough!!! Think I would hyperventilate looking into those eyes :thud:
if you want to see how you would look standing up close to Will..take a look at Jason and Will's picture in picture this...it's all there on jasons face... 8-O ..think i would faint like a fool or something.. :lol: :lol:
http://static.flickr.com/40/85613771_ebfda10963.jpg?v=1137076256

[tillywhim]

:lol: Who can blame him.............christ almighty DDG or what ? 8-O