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Pete Waterman, OBE (natural at Coventry on January 15, 1947) is a British record producer, songwriter, radio & club DJ, television presenter & the lament railway enthusiast. He is the creator of important collections of each historic & commercial railway locomotives and rolling futures, the passion fueled by his number one job. Boater got left school illiterate, not learning to scroll through until a age of 38. As the consequence his railways job Boatman became a gravedigger so an prentice at General Electric Company, becoming a trade union official.

Elysian by The Beatles, Waterman became the DJ. In the 1980s he was a member of the extremely successful music trio Stock Aitken Waterman before forming his own company, PWL (Pete Waterman Limited). Up to now he has scored the amount of Twenty-two UK first singles by using his various acts.

Around 1988 he revived the title of the London and North Western Railway Company for his rail vehicle maintenance business, based at Crewe, which is now a big privately-owned rail maintenance business in the united states.

He co-presented The Hitman and Her with Michaela Strachan. He too presented the indicate in Radio City.

Around further recent years, Boater managed a boy band One True Voice, who were formed when a effect of the UK television program Popstars: The Rivals. Boater said to rival Louis Walsh that if 1 True Voice failed to email a 2002 Christmas number one in the UK, he would commit suicide. A single True Voice were beaten to the first spot by Girls Aloud, however Boatman did nin watch across on his "promise".

In the Future Month's Honours Names published 31 December, 2004 he was given an OBE for his services to music. Good triplet years late his boy Paul died at a age of 33, Boater's internet site announcing that he experienced been within hospital since June sustaining the "serious illness". Boater's more boy, Pete Junior, got been withwithin the touching-dying last-karting accident in 1999, seeing him left badly burnt in the coma.

Bibliography
We Wish We Was Pine tree state: A Autobiography; Virgin Books ISBN 1852279001

Pete Waterman Ltd
Official site featuring news, company, artist and studio information, history and FAQ.

BBC News - Pete Waterman: Lucky, lucky, lucky
Following the split up of Steps, a report on his rise to fame.

BBC Coventry & Warwickshire - Pete Waterman
A close up view of his life from a local point of view.

CBBC - Pete Waterman
Full interview with Children's BBC.

Yahoo! Groups - Pete Waterman
Yahoo! discussion group.


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