Boyzone男孩地带：爱尔兰五人男子组合。No Matter What (无论如何)是其最成功的单曲，该曲于1999年击败My Heart Will Go On (我心永恒)等歌曲获得全英年度总冠军。

【Boyzone介绍】

It was August 1994. Earlier that year, Ronan then 17- had dropped out of school to make a bid for stardom with his country's first 'boy' band. The 'dream boat' knew that major sucess was on the way. Girls throwing underwear up at his bedroom window was a good sign!

Shane Lynch, who had been workin' as a trainee mechanic in his dad's garage when he left to join Boyzone, was also wakin'up every morning to the sound of a corous of girls chantin' his name. Round at the homes of ex- shoe shop attendant Stephen Gately, (not Ro???) former mechanic Mikey Graham and one-time clothes store assistant Keith Duffy it was the same story .

With the exception of Mikey, the Boyz had been chosen at auditions in Dublin the previous November. There were six members at start- then two were dropped and Mikey was drafted in. Ireland had never seen anything like it before. The country that spawned rock supergroup U2 had never produced a successful pop group.

Boyzone got off to a shaky start with a disastrous first TV appearance- and the disastrous first TV appearance- and the critics virtually wrote them off. Irish showbiz impresario Louis Walsh, who managed Eurovision Song Contest winners Johnny Logan and Linda Martin, created Boyzone.

He worked feverishly on their formula for success and refused to be thwarted when record companies closed the door in his face. Even when his financial resources hit rock bottom, Louis had the courage to persist with his dream.

He took on a financial backer and co-manager, John Reynolds, who owns a trendy Dublin nighclub called The Pod. The breakthrough came when record company boss Paul Keogh of Polygram Ireland signed them up. With a 'dream team' now behind them, Boyzone took Ireland by storm with 'Workin' My Way Back To You', a single that was never released outside the country.

But to reach dizzy heights, The Boyz still had to conquer the massive UK market. Success there world open up Europe and the rest of the world to them. It was the '94 Smash Hits Roadshow that introducted Boyzone to British fans and it ignited a red- hot love affair that has grown and grown.

Boyzone walked away with the Best New Act award at the Smash Hits Poll Winners' party in December'94 and completed a mind-blowing year by reaching No2 in the British charts that Christmas with 'Love Me For A Reason'. album, Said And Done, went straight to number one in Britain- even U2 couldn't pull off that feat with their first release. Bono sent a fax to congratulate the young heroes as they finally hit the super league of pop. But he failed to tell the hot newcomers just how crazy it was going to be.