In The Swing Of It

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A lot of people have made swing albums, but we’re not two singers singing in different studios around the world. In case Roman’s own heartthrob status wasn’t a clue, Martin and Shirlie are both still so good-looking (without any cosmetic work) it’d be frankly sickening if they weren’t also enjoying their lives, and being great company while they’re at it.

Shirlie says that she listens to Roman and their daughter Harleymoon, "because they're current, they're young and they know what's going on, and their encouragement and approval of what we were doing meant a lot to me. Martin had been working on a solo album with super producer Brian Rawling (Cher, Tina Turner, One Direction) when he invited his wife to step back into the recording studio for the first time in 30 years to help him out on a track. The plate is unnoticeable but not undetectable; during an appearance on the Frank Skinner Show in 2002, Kemp jokingly remarked he could never slip quietly through metal-detectors at airports, as the plate would set the alarm off. Shirlie pretty much retired from music after the birth of Harleymoon in 1989, and she says: "I was exhausted of it all, and that whole celebrity thing. It's really nice that we haven't done it before now because this whole thing is brand new, it's so late-on for us," Martin (58) explains.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. However, there's no need to phone them through this time as Trevor Horn has lifted the original vocals (and some instrumentation) from his classic singles and laid the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra doing their thing over the top, which all seems a bit pointless as few of these songs were in any need of reworking. It wasn’t great that he was unable to work and it made things tough, but at the same time, they had their mum and dad every day. Holliman was in a relationship with Andrew Ridgley, whom she described as very charismatic, for two years.

Martin added: “He would have loved it and I swear, me and Shirlie have spoken about it a lot, he would be up there now looking down smiling.But you reach a point when you realise fame itself is nothing – it’s just a ticket to getting better jobs.

Tracks include Nice Work If You Can Get It - a playful nod to Martin’s NTA Award winning acting roles on EastEnders and in Hollywood, and classics Ain’t That a Kick In The Head, Fly Me To The Moon and The Way You Look Tonight. Its a upbeat album full of timeless beautiful songs like "fly me to moon" , "how do you like your eggs in the morning? While in Spandau, Martin’s musical talent was focused on playing the bass and while he’d provided a touch of backing vocals in the band, it was only when he played a role in the musical Chicago in the West End in the summer of 2018 that he realised how much he enjoyed singing. If you are singing at home it makes you feel better, it releases endorphins, which is what we both experienced making this record; singing makes you feel good. In December 2017, he appeared as Captain Hook in Peter Pan - The World's Biggest Pantomime at the Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham and the SSE Arena in Wembley alongside Bradley Walsh as Smee.This takes a lot of concentration but I’m really pleased now, we have that empty space and this fills the void.