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Paul Antony Young (born 17 January 1956) is an English pop musician.

Paul was born in Luton, Bedfordshire. He has an older brother Mark and a younger sister Joanne. After school, he went to work at the Vauxhall Motors factory and in his spare time played in several bands as bass guitarist. The first group for which he became lead singer was Kat Kool & The Kool Kats. In the late 1970s he joined the Streetband, who had one Top 20 hit in the UK, with the humorous, novelty track “Toast”, reaching No. 18 in November 1978.

In December 1979 the Streetband broke up and Young formed the Q-Tips, who established their name by playing live but had no hits in the UK, although their single “Letter Song” did enjoy minor success in mainland Europe.

The Q-Tips went their separate ways in 1982, and Young was signed by CBS Records as a solo performer. His first two singles, “Iron Out the Rough Spots” and a re-make of “Love of the Common People” had no success, but the third, a cover of the Marvin Gaye classic “Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home)” was No. 1 in the UK singles chart for three weeks in the summer of 1983, the first of fourteen British Top 40 singles, and is on the soundtrack of the 1992 British comedy film Peter’s Friends.

Similar success followed all over Europe. In the UK, follow-up single “Come Back and Stay” reached No. 4, and a re-release of “Love of the Common People” made it to No. 2, while his debut album No Parlez was certified platinum in various countries.

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80s, pop, new wave, british, male vocalists
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1	Come back and stay full track	814
2	Everytime You Go Away	621
3	Love of the Common People full track	524
4	Every Time You Go Away full track	468
5	Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) full track	243
6	Don't Dream It's Over full track	177
7	Oh Girl full track	111
8	Everything Must Change full track	99
9	I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down full track	86
10	Now I Know What Made Otis Blue full track	85
11	Broken Man full track	67
12	Love Will Tear Us Apart full track	63
13	Softly Whispering I Love You full track	59
14	Wherever I Lay My Hat	52
15	Wonderland full track	42

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flubbles1982 wrote:
17 days ago

Paul Young I want babies from you. Does anyone think he looks a little like Shakin' Stevens?

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MyFairyKing wrote:
last month

I cannot wait to see him Nov 4th :)

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iofantasia wrote:
last month

I don't understend all your comments, sorry. bat thanks. By by.____Paul, his very Big. ____Un saluto a tutti. Ciao.

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Prognosis_X wrote:
September 2008

Don't Dream It's Over is by Crowded House haha.

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Tr1xx wrote:
September 2008

hey, I just picked up a copy of "No Parlez" with The Daily Mail" newspaper yesterday; one of a series of 80s albums given away free this week

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pooh_soup wrote:
August 2008

I saw him last November and i nearly quimmed. the man is a GOD

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Tony-- wrote:
July 2008

i found a record of No Parlez in my dad's room :D

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girlybat wrote:
June 2008

@ epi_gee: ooh, that's such a great one!

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kfalco69 wrote:
May 2008

80s classic wat a tune

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epi_gee wrote:
April 2008

A Soldier's Things needs to have 200,000 plays alone.

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Sraige_Olaiva wrote:
November 2007

So little plays... Can't believe it.

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girlybat wrote:
September 2007

:flings panties:

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Yannis30 wrote:
August 2007

H's a bit like the actor Bart Reynolds, everyone's heard of the name but can hardly quote a song/movie of his!

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serginand wrote:
July 2007

@ adchelle - this 'bloke', as you call him, is far far far more than the cover of the most underrated song of the shitty Joy Division band. Paul needs more adoration. Pitty there are less than 100K plays here on .fm

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adchelle wrote:
February 2007

and an awful joy division cover - this bloke should be forgotten

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Tr1xx wrote:
January 2007

Sadly underplayed artist that was mega popular in the mid to late 80s. Seven UK top 10 ten hits and three number one albums to boot.

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