The Hit Factory: Stock, Aitken and Waterman

Episode 2: From Tea Boy to Chart Topper

In the second episode of this four part series, Josh Widdicombe and comedian and friend Matthew Crosby discuss the amazing story of Stock, Aitken and Waterman's 'Hit Factory' record label...

When we left them, the trio’s lives and careers had just converged, and the taste of that early success meant they agreed to collaborate on a new record label…

Little did they know they were about to go on an insane run of chart topping pop success with the likes of… 

Cliff Richard, Mel and Kim, Bananarama, Sinitta and Rick Astley…

They would help to define a decade in pop music, but also label them as “being second to Margaret Thatcher as ‘the worst thing about the 1980s.’”

Episode 3 is available on all podcast platfroms on the 17th January.

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