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Atomic Kitten , the three girls
from Liverpool are Natasha Hamilton (Tash), Elizabeth McClarnon
(Liz or Lil) and Jenny (Jen).
They officially formed as Atomic Kitten in 1999 as a trio, with
Tash, Liz and Kerry Katona ( now MCFadden), who left in early
2001 to pursue a career as a house mother and TV presenter and
lately starred and won in ' I am a celebrity get me out of here'
succesful UK tv show. Kerry was replaced by Jenny Frost ( Formerly
of Precious, a UK girl group whose single "Say It Again" was a
UK Eurovision entry) in 2001. Atomic Kitten released 4 Singles
With Kerry - "Right Now," "See Ya," "I Want Your Love," "Follow
Me" as well as the album "Right Now."
2001 was an important year for atomic kitten, the band finally
achieved a UK #1 single. Kerry had just left the band, to have
a baby and got married to Bryan McFadden super singer in the Irish
boyband, Westlife. Jenny Frost knew the other girls already and
as Precious, her former band had disbanded after a failed album
and single launch it wasn't long before she was taken in to replacefor
Kerry. Soon we had a string of major hits "Whole Again" with Tash
and Liz, The album "Right Now" was deleted and only available
on import, with " Whole Again" staying at #1 in the UK for 4 weeks.
It then also reached #1 in Germany, Switzerland, Australia, New
Zealand and many other European countries. The album reached #39
on its release, and the girls were on the verge of being dropped
if "Whole Again" was not a hit but it became their biggest worldwide
hit ever. As Kerry was featured on the deleted "Right Now" album,
a re-record of "Right Now" was scheduled, so Jen could sing on
the tracks with Tash and Liz.
Romours had it that Kerry some of times wasn't actually singing
but miming. More ballads along the lines of " Whole Again" were
included, such as "You Are," "Eternal Flame" and "Tomorrow and
Tonight." "Bye Now" was also remixed. The album was released in
June in Europe, and was only available in the UK on import for
most of Europe this was not a re-issue of the album, it was their
album debut. In late July 2001, America's biggest girlband, Destiny's
Child, released a single from their #1 album "Survivor" - an R'n'B
party track with a catchy hook and sing-a-long lyrics - "Bootylicious."
It was a surefire #1 - or was it? In the same week, Atomic Kitten
released their follow-up to "Whole Again" - a cover of the Bangles
hit "Eternal Flame." This was also remixed from the original European
album version, and held Destiny's Child from the top spot. "Eternal
Flame" stayed at #1 for 2 weeks.
The re-recorded "Right Now" album was then released and went straight
to #1 in the UK. Atomic Kitten were now the biggest girl group
in Europe. In December 2001, a remixed version of "You Are" was
scheduled to be released, and the girls promoted it on UK television.
However, due to other chart competition, the single was postponed
and eventually cancelled in January 2002.
A version of the planned UK CD1 was available on import in the
UK, as it was released in mainland Europe and Australia. With
their album, "Feels So Good," Atomic Kitten s'exploited their
experience and new found creativity and writing most of the material
themselves. The first single to be taken from it ("It's OK!")
featured a catchy Irish sounding melody, and the second single
, their revamped version of the Blondie "The Tide Is High ( Blondie
is a long standing American pop group which has lately successfully
came back with new album "The Curse of Blondie) ".
During this time Tash went on a break to give birth to her son
Josh which she had with former lover Fran Cosgrove. Unfortunately
the relationship did not last. In November 2002 Atomic kitten
realeased, "The Last Goodbye" and the previously unreleased track,
"Be With You," , and hit #2. Both songs were released independently
in most European countries, and "Be With You" was released on
its own in Australia where it was such a hit, the album was re-
released with it on. Their next UK single will be "Love Doesn't
Have To Hurt," which was written by The Bangles especially for
the Atomic Kitten. In November 2003 'Ladies Night' was released
, a 15 tracks Album track which had a massive success not only
in the UK but also in Europe at to some extent also in the USA.
It was early December 2003 that romours where starting to materialize
about Atomic kitten intending to take a long break or even spilt
up. February 2004 has seen the band embarking on what it is referred
as 'the last tour' for the forseable future.Sixteen sold out venues
terminating at the Hull Ice Arena 11 Mar 2004.
Atomic Kitten's final single for a year will be "Someone Like
Me," released on 15th March 2004, with the Greatest Hits album
following two weeks later. None of us want Atomic kitten to split
up it is predicted that Jen and Liz might be starting a solo career
while Tash will take sometime off to catch up with Josh. No it
is NOT the end of Atomic Kitten as we all love and followed through
the years.It is still a strong possibility that the girls will
be back together,insiders are saying that is going to be about
year before a reunion is on the cards. We at atomic-kitten.com
will be hanging on to this expectation and will be sharing with
you the same wish
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