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0:00:04 > 0:00:07DRILLS WHIR, HAMMER BANGS
0:00:08 > 0:00:13In 1993, a 17-year-old car mechanic working in his father's garage
0:00:13 > 0:00:16had to ask for the morning off. And his father said, "Why?"
0:00:16 > 0:00:18And he said, "Well, I want to audition for a boy band."
0:00:18 > 0:00:21And after a pause his father said, "Can you sing?"
0:00:21 > 0:00:26He said, "I don't know." And his father said, "Well, be back by two."
0:00:26 > 0:00:29And that is how a boy from north Dublin
0:00:29 > 0:00:33set out on the road to worldwide stardom.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36# ..So good Like I knew we would... #
0:00:36 > 0:00:38Shane Lynch is a member of Boyzone,
0:00:38 > 0:00:41one of the most successful boy bands in history.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43# ..Gonna be so good... #
0:00:43 > 0:00:45Young Dubliners plucked from obscurity
0:00:45 > 0:00:49as Ireland's answer to Take That.
0:00:49 > 0:00:50Nobody knew anything.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54We were just five lads taken from our mothers in Ireland
0:00:54 > 0:00:56and dropped in London in this band.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59It was mental, absolutely mental.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02# You will be there... #
0:01:02 > 0:01:05Boyzone's career has spanned 22 years,
0:01:05 > 0:01:08with a string of hit singles, eight albums,
0:01:08 > 0:01:13more than 25 million record sales and a clutch of music industry awards.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16- Boyzone! There's your award, guys. - CHEERING
0:01:16 > 0:01:19But after seven years in the media spotlight,
0:01:19 > 0:01:23Shane's life began to spiral out of control.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26He even dabbled in the world of the occult.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29I was in a bad way. I was in a bad, bad, dark, dark place.
0:01:29 > 0:01:34So I took upon a dark nature because I liked people fearing my character.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38I danced with the devil without a doubt.
0:01:38 > 0:01:39He scared me.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42He had these black contacts in his eyes,
0:01:42 > 0:01:46so his eyes were totally black, and he wasn't himself.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48# Now I'm a man... #
0:01:48 > 0:01:53As Boyzone went their separate ways, help came from an unexpected place.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56He found God and... it done him the world of good.
0:01:56 > 0:02:01I was hungry...I was hungry for God because of what it was doing for me,
0:02:01 > 0:02:02how it was making me feel.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05In 2009, Boyzone were back together
0:02:05 > 0:02:10recording their first album in nearly a decade when tragedy struck.
0:02:10 > 0:02:14On stage with the boys, we will always be five.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17He is there and it will always be like that.
0:02:17 > 0:02:21# The way you love me... #
0:02:21 > 0:02:24Shane self-deprecatingly calls himself a "chancer".
0:02:24 > 0:02:27So I want to find out, after all he's been through,
0:02:27 > 0:02:30what sort of man that 17-year-old has become.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43Ooh, Shane, this is a nice family home.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47Did you ever think you'd have a family home as lovely as this?
0:02:47 > 0:02:50- Well, welcome to start with, I suppose.- Thank you.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52Erm, yeah, as a young man I always...
0:02:52 > 0:02:55certainly dreamt of having such things.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57I came from a relatively big family,
0:02:57 > 0:02:59so I always envisaged when I got older,
0:02:59 > 0:03:01yeah, I'd have kids and all that, so...
0:03:04 > 0:03:10Shane Eamon Lynch was born in the hot summer of 1976 in Dublin.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13Home was six miles to the north-east of the city
0:03:13 > 0:03:17in the leafy suburb of Donaghmede, surrounded by girls.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24- Poor Shane. I mean, there's five girls and one boy.- Yeah.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27So that must have been dreadful in some kind of way,
0:03:27 > 0:03:30like, watching all of us with our make-up and our nails.
0:03:30 > 0:03:35The only other male in the Lynch household was Shane's dad, Brendan,
0:03:35 > 0:03:38a car mechanic who owned his own garage business
0:03:38 > 0:03:40and worked long hours.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43He'd be gone out of the door before we got up for school,
0:03:43 > 0:03:47and by the time we'd gone to bed, he wouldn't be home. You know, it'd be work, work, work, work.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49He was a churchgoer, a very devout...
0:03:49 > 0:03:53- He is still, I think, a very devout churchgoer?- Yeah.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56And so he took you and your sisters and your mum to church every Sunday?
0:03:56 > 0:03:58He dragged us.
0:03:58 > 0:04:02Meaning, as in, who wants to go to the church when they are a kid? I didn't.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05- So they were just stories to you? - Oh, church was nonsense as a child, nonsense.
0:04:05 > 0:04:09Why do you want to sit down and listen to some drab old nonsense going on?
0:04:09 > 0:04:10It doesn't mean anything to you.
0:04:10 > 0:04:14That was busy taking up... time I could be jumping on my BMX, d'you know what I mean?
0:04:14 > 0:04:19I used to ride motorbikes, mad about motorbikes at about the age of 12 years old,
0:04:19 > 0:04:21fixing motorbikes, riding motorbikes.
0:04:21 > 0:04:25So it was kind of a rogue type of feralness.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27You were a boy being a boy.
0:04:30 > 0:04:35Family life was happy, but at school, Shane struggled from the beginning.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40When did you realise you first had a problem with reading?
0:04:40 > 0:04:44Erm, I know a lot of the kids were starting to spell their name,
0:04:44 > 0:04:48then the teacher says, "Very good. Well done, David. Well done, Michael. Well done, whatever."
0:04:48 > 0:04:50There was never, "Well done, Shane," that's for sure.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54I mean, they were just another pattern to me,
0:04:54 > 0:04:55they weren't letters whatsoever.
0:04:55 > 0:04:59In fact, Shane's problems stemmed from dyslexia,
0:04:59 > 0:05:02undiagnosed until he was in his 30s.
0:05:02 > 0:05:07While they were teaching, you understood the subjects, you just couldn't put it down on the page?
0:05:07 > 0:05:10Yes, very much so. I couldn't pick up a book and read it to you,
0:05:10 > 0:05:12that would be an impossible task.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15I think he just always thought he was a bit stupid, really,
0:05:15 > 0:05:16and just didn't take it in.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19Well, he was always told that in school, you know.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Shane didn't shine academically,
0:05:23 > 0:05:26but he drew attention to himself in other ways.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30How did you come to school with a horse?
0:05:30 > 0:05:33- TARA LAUGHS - Apparently, he took a horse to school.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35I see a guy coming down the road one day
0:05:35 > 0:05:37in the middle of our housing estate on a horse
0:05:37 > 0:05:42and I thought, "That's cool. That is proper cool, that's what I am going to do."
0:05:42 > 0:05:45So I put my money together and I went down to the travellers.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48I think it was £30 or something, buy this horse,
0:05:48 > 0:05:51no saddle, no reins, no nothing, a bit of rope.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53One of my friends said to me, "I saw Shane
0:05:53 > 0:05:56"going to school on a horse." I was like, "What?! Are you serious?"
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Where did you tie him up when you were at school?
0:05:58 > 0:06:02Oh, to the bike rack. Oh, yeah, yeah, tied him to the bike rack, into school.
0:06:02 > 0:06:06- Didn't anyone say, "Lynch..."? - Of course but, you know, everything was fine.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10And it was only for a day, so there was no real big problem afterwards.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13But, you know, I liked being different
0:06:13 > 0:06:14and I still like being different.
0:06:14 > 0:06:19And then there's this moment at school, your behaviour has been such
0:06:19 > 0:06:24that the head teacher, presumably, had had enough of you and he said,
0:06:24 > 0:06:28- "That's it, just don't ever come back." And you were only 14.- Yeah.
0:06:28 > 0:06:32And there was a disruptive moment within the classroom. He said, "OK, Mr Lynch, stand outside the door".
0:06:32 > 0:06:35I stood outside the door and the principal came by and he said,
0:06:35 > 0:06:37"Ah, now, Mr Lynch, what are you out here for?"
0:06:37 > 0:06:41I said, "Well..." - and genuinely, not telling a lie -
0:06:41 > 0:06:43"..I didn't do anything, sir."
0:06:43 > 0:06:45And he goes, "That's the point,
0:06:45 > 0:06:48"you don't do anything in this school,
0:06:48 > 0:06:51"so I'd really appreciate it if you didn't come back."
0:06:51 > 0:06:53That must have hurt?
0:06:53 > 0:06:57Erm, honestly, I don't remember that emotion back in the day,
0:06:57 > 0:07:01other than...probably release and then immediate fear.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03"How on earth am I going to tell my parents?"
0:07:03 > 0:07:06I was being kicked out of school
0:07:06 > 0:07:09because I couldn't do what the rest of the kids could do,
0:07:09 > 0:07:12and that's be academic - read, write, you know.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14Everything that they were doing, I couldn't do it.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18Shane said nothing.
0:07:18 > 0:07:22It was 1991, the end of the academic year,
0:07:22 > 0:07:25and the Lynch family were heading for Portugal.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28MUSIC: Should I Stay Or Should I Go? by The Clash
0:07:28 > 0:07:31- And I think that was the summer you turned 15, was it?- Yeah. 15, yeah.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34- Yeah.- I think that was the worst summer of my life.
0:07:34 > 0:07:39And every day I woke up, the fear of my life, facing the fact
0:07:39 > 0:07:42that yesterday I didn't tell my dad I was kicked out of school
0:07:42 > 0:07:43and I couldn't go back.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46And all summer, you've got to think about how you're going to mention this.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52We were coming back from Portugal back to Ireland,
0:07:52 > 0:07:55my dad, all of us in the camper van.
0:07:55 > 0:07:59September was coming, I'm thinking, "Boy, you know, it's got to happen."
0:07:59 > 0:08:03So I built up the courage, and I remember we had these curtains
0:08:03 > 0:08:06that separated the front of the camper van to the back,
0:08:06 > 0:08:08so my dad could concentrate on driving.
0:08:08 > 0:08:13I remember opening the curtains, taking a big deep breath and saying,
0:08:13 > 0:08:17"Dad...I really don't like school
0:08:17 > 0:08:22"and I'd love an apprenticeship.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24"Any chance I can have a job?"
0:08:25 > 0:08:28And he kind of took his eye off the road for a second,
0:08:28 > 0:08:29looked at me...
0:08:29 > 0:08:32- "No problem, son." - SHE GASPS
0:08:32 > 0:08:34..and kept on driving.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37If I had have done that three months ago,
0:08:37 > 0:08:40I would have had the best summer of my life!
0:08:42 > 0:08:45And it taught me such an amazing lesson in life,
0:08:45 > 0:08:48that we put off, we put off, we put off, we put off,
0:08:48 > 0:08:50what we don't want to do or we're scared of,
0:08:50 > 0:08:54but, actually, if I had just got it over and done with, it would never have been an issue.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58And, honestly, the whole world just... The heavens opened,
0:08:58 > 0:09:02the angels sang. And that was it, I was going to work for my dad.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04That was it, I became a man.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07For the next three years,
0:09:07 > 0:09:11Shane worked in the garage learning his father's trade.
0:09:11 > 0:09:15I mean, every day in that garage, it was just some of the best times in my life, I loved it.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18Rain, hail, sleet, snow, it didn't matter.
0:09:18 > 0:09:22Cold spanner stuck to your hands, you know, you didn't wear gloves back in the day,
0:09:22 > 0:09:25you didn't have hand protection as they do now, it was just raw!
0:09:25 > 0:09:27So there you are, working with your dad,
0:09:27 > 0:09:30presumably the radio's on in the garage?
0:09:30 > 0:09:34- No, never in the garage. There's no time for listening to music in that garage.- Really?
0:09:34 > 0:09:37- So...- You're crazy! I always enjoyed music as a kid.
0:09:37 > 0:09:41I wasn't your typical Irish guy - U2, rock, rock, rock.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44So I was into, again, being different.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47"What's across the pond in America? Hip-hop, wow, amazing, love it."
0:09:47 > 0:09:49- And actually genuinely did. - # Always want to get some
0:09:49 > 0:09:52# Pick pockets and then they try to play dumb. Yo! #
0:09:52 > 0:09:55But I never thought I'd be in music for sure.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57No, you wanted to be in cars.
0:09:57 > 0:09:58Yeah, I wanted to be in cars.
0:09:58 > 0:10:02# ..Answers I can find
0:10:02 > 0:10:03# Baby, I want you
0:10:03 > 0:10:11# Come, come, come into my arms... #
0:10:11 > 0:10:16While Shane was serving his apprenticeship learning about brake systems and diagnostics,
0:10:16 > 0:10:19five lads from Manchester were storming the charts.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23So your friend, Mark Walton,
0:10:23 > 0:10:28he was the one who said to you, "Here, have you heard this Take That? They're fantastic.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31"We could be... We could be an Irish boy band."
0:10:31 > 0:10:34And you think, "Yeah, that's... Yeah, good idea, let's do that."
0:10:34 > 0:10:35Was it as simple as that?
0:10:35 > 0:10:39- D'you know, as mad as it is, yes. - SHE LAUGHS
0:10:39 > 0:10:42You know, I didn't think, "Oh, how's that going to happen?"
0:10:42 > 0:10:44I just went, "That's a great idea, I'm going to be that."
0:10:44 > 0:10:47And it's funny cos, like, we went...
0:10:47 > 0:10:49In that particular conversation of,
0:10:49 > 0:10:53"This band, boy band... OK, cool, sounds good.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55"What do we do? We need a manager. Oh, yeah, we need a manager.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58"How do we get one of those? I don't know."
0:10:58 > 0:10:59So, we had this meeting set up,
0:10:59 > 0:11:03it was on Grafton Street at one o'clock in the day with this guy.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06But there was still one big hurdle to overcome,
0:11:06 > 0:11:09Shane needed time off from the garage.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12And for that, he needed permission from his dad.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16You don't really take time off work.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19Maybe if you had a limb missing, he'd let you away with it, but that's about it.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22So, anyway, on the way into work I said,
0:11:22 > 0:11:27"Listen, Dad, I've got an interview later on with a manager
0:11:27 > 0:11:28"about being in a band".
0:11:28 > 0:11:30The most ridiculous thing ever!
0:11:32 > 0:11:33And my dad, being him...
0:11:34 > 0:11:38..doesn't say much for a second or two, driving away.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42He looks across... "Is that right, son?"
0:11:43 > 0:11:45He goes, "Tell me something..."
0:11:46 > 0:11:49"..do you sing, son?" he says.
0:11:49 > 0:11:50I said, "No."
0:11:50 > 0:11:52"Oh, right, right."
0:11:53 > 0:11:55"What instrument do you play, son?"
0:11:56 > 0:11:58I said, "I don't play any instrument."
0:11:58 > 0:12:00He goes, "Right, right.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02"What are you going to do in this band?"
0:12:03 > 0:12:05I said, "I don't really know".
0:12:05 > 0:12:07He goes, "OK, be back by two o'clock".
0:12:07 > 0:12:09Brilliant.
0:12:10 > 0:12:14And so Mark and Shane kept their appointment on Grafton Street
0:12:14 > 0:12:16with their prospective manager.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19His name was...Louis Walsh.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21He opens up this silver briefcase.
0:12:21 > 0:12:25- Oh, yes.- He takes out his...
0:12:25 > 0:12:29Actually, fax, reels of fax paper back in the day,
0:12:29 > 0:12:31and he was showing me, he was showing us.
0:12:31 > 0:12:35The amazing thing about that was he was selling himself to us.
0:12:35 > 0:12:42And he sold us the dream. Honestly, he said, "Lads, the sun, the moon and the stars will be yours.
0:12:42 > 0:12:43"I'm your man."
0:12:43 > 0:12:45And, right enough, he sure was.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48He really got all the newspapers firing, didn't he?
0:12:48 > 0:12:51We started to get recognised for no reason whatsoever,
0:12:51 > 0:12:53and we're signing autographs for no reason,
0:12:53 > 0:12:56and, you know, we're talking about how great our band is going to be
0:12:56 > 0:12:58and we didn't even have a band.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02But he really did, he got that ball rolling, he got Ireland excited.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04Louis' campaign culminated
0:13:04 > 0:13:07in a newspaper advertisement
0:13:07 > 0:13:08inviting talented singers
0:13:08 > 0:13:11to audition for the new boy band.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13I remember way back seeing the advert in the newspaper.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15And it was Shane and another lad,
0:13:15 > 0:13:17and it was a black-and-white photograph,
0:13:17 > 0:13:19and they were kind of hanging out of a tree.
0:13:19 > 0:13:23More than 300 boys turned up for the auditions.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27You and Mark and Louis watch these auditions go through.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30A young Ronan came in front of you, he was only 15?
0:13:30 > 0:13:31Ronan was the youngest.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34- At 15 he would have came to the audition.- Shane was in the room.
0:13:34 > 0:13:38I didn't know who he was, I just thought he was this big...
0:13:38 > 0:13:40music guru or something.
0:13:40 > 0:13:41I didn't know what he was.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43Who was next? You've got Mikey...
0:13:43 > 0:13:46- Yeah, Mick, Stephen and Keith, yeah. - And Keith!
0:13:46 > 0:13:49So I turned up there and I saw Shane and he said...
0:13:49 > 0:13:50You know, he didn't say much,
0:13:50 > 0:13:53you could see his eyes going, "What are you doing here?"
0:13:53 > 0:13:57You'd already had a sort of passing of the ways with Keith, hadn't you?
0:13:57 > 0:14:01Well, I've known Keith all my life practically, I never liked him.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03We were... We were chalk and cheese.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05We were always enemies.
0:14:05 > 0:14:09Two good-looking guys in the same neighbourhood, you know what I mean, it was going to happen.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13Oh, he was... He was beautiful! He was a beautiful boy.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15My mother was a hairdresser and my father was in the rag trade,
0:14:15 > 0:14:18so, you know, I'd good clothes
0:14:18 > 0:14:20and I always had a few blond streaks in me hair.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23Hair always done, streaks.
0:14:23 > 0:14:29Denim, sharp shoes shining, and me, I was covered in muck, dirt, oil,
0:14:29 > 0:14:33motorbikes, I was that greasy grimer and he was that shiner,
0:14:33 > 0:14:35you know what I mean?
0:14:35 > 0:14:40Another striking young wannabe was Dublin boy, Colin Farrell,
0:14:40 > 0:14:43now an international film star.
0:14:43 > 0:14:48He's a good-looking guy. I mean, Colin Farrell, it was unbelievable.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50I think he actually kind of could sing, Colin.
0:14:50 > 0:14:54Colin Farrell should have been in Boyzone, if you really look back at it.
0:14:54 > 0:14:55He actually really should have been.
0:14:55 > 0:14:59I'm probably thankful he's not... now, but he should have been.
0:15:00 > 0:15:05With 300 whittled down to ten, this was the last chance to shine,
0:15:05 > 0:15:08and time for Shane and Mark
0:15:08 > 0:15:11to compete for a place in their own band.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14So, they'd all auditioned, you and Mark hadn't auditioned,
0:15:14 > 0:15:16so there's a point when you two have to go,
0:15:16 > 0:15:19- "We've got to stand up and do this too."- "We've got to do this."
0:15:19 > 0:15:20And I remember thinking,
0:15:20 > 0:15:24"Wow! I've got to actually get out of my chair and stand at that tin."
0:15:24 > 0:15:29I remember the guy on the keyboard playing, er, Careless Whisper,
0:15:29 > 0:15:31George Michael, at the time.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34And I remember learning the song for about ten minutes before I went in.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37And I got into the final cut
0:15:37 > 0:15:40by the skin of my teeth or by flying colours, I haven't a clue,
0:15:40 > 0:15:43but I just know I was in the band.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46- APPLAUSE - Oh, macho men have come to town.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49OK. Well, who's who now? You identify yourself.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51- I'm Ronan Keating. - Ronan Keating. Where are you from?
0:15:51 > 0:15:54Just 24 hours after the final audition,
0:15:54 > 0:15:57Louis threw his final six in at the deep end
0:15:57 > 0:16:01with an appearance on The Late Late Show presented by Gay Byrne.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03..Ireland's answer to Take That.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06It was Boyzone but not as we know it.
0:16:06 > 0:16:10- The Late Late Show was the biggest show in Ireland.- Hmm.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12Their biggest show, it didn't get any bigger,
0:16:12 > 0:16:15and we had this slot on the Friday night Late Late Show.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18Getting an opportunity like that was fantastic at the time.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21We're going to be the new Irish pop group.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23- You're going to be the new Irish pop group?- That's right.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25- At the teenybopper market? - The teenybopper market.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28We thought we were superstars. We were on the television. "We're famous."
0:16:28 > 0:16:31- You don't play any instruments or have any songs. - ALL: We do.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34- You do?- They don't. They don't, they're lying...
0:16:34 > 0:16:38The boys thought that Gay Byrne had invited them onto the show for an interview.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41And when...Mr Byrne came in
0:16:41 > 0:16:45and he then decided, "Well, no, I'm not happy with that, I want the lads to do something."
0:16:45 > 0:16:46- So...- But he was right.
0:16:46 > 0:16:49He was right, but it was also, he was very wrong,
0:16:49 > 0:16:52because, you know, give us a chance!
0:16:52 > 0:16:56"I don't even know this fella, let alone do anything with him." We'd only just been put together.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59And so we were kind of shovelled into a corner.
0:16:59 > 0:17:03So we said, "Right, lads, let's just get an old song together, we'll do a dance and crack on."
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Cue the music. Let's hear it.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08# Burn, baby
0:17:08 > 0:17:09# All my energy
0:17:09 > 0:17:11# Burn, baby, burn, baby
0:17:11 > 0:17:13# All my energy
0:17:13 > 0:17:15# Burn, baby, burn, baby
0:17:15 > 0:17:16# Oh, my fantasy
0:17:16 > 0:17:19# Burn, baby, burn, baby... #
0:17:19 > 0:17:22We spent the whole day there in one of the dressing rooms
0:17:22 > 0:17:23practising that dance routine.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25# Burn, baby, burn, baby... #
0:17:25 > 0:17:28I know people look at it and go, "You practised that?!"
0:17:28 > 0:17:31- But, yes, we actually practised that for a long time. - HE LAUGHS
0:17:34 > 0:17:37I remember, the next day we all thought this was the best thing ever,
0:17:37 > 0:17:40but little did we know everyone was laughing at us, you know.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42- Oh, they really got some stick, didn't they?- Yeah.
0:17:42 > 0:17:46You kind of cringe a little bit and you think, "That's going to haunt us for ever." And it does.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52I love it, though. There was a time... There really was a time
0:17:52 > 0:17:56where I was just distraught by that whole programme.
0:17:56 > 0:18:02But, actually, I love it. I love the innocence. I love the nonsense.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05I love the fact that you can actually come out on top
0:18:05 > 0:18:08no matter how difficult you think the journey is ahead.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11I'm not pulling it out of the drawer, saying to my kids or anyone,
0:18:11 > 0:18:13"This is a moment of my life."
0:18:13 > 0:18:16No, this was the beginning, the birth of Boyzone
0:18:16 > 0:18:19- as raw...as raw as you like.- Yeah.
0:18:19 > 0:18:23Couldn't walk, couldn't cry, couldn't feed from a bottle,
0:18:23 > 0:18:28we were straight off the breast, if you want to call that point, and into the world.
0:18:28 > 0:18:32Don't forget, they're called Boyzone. Do you get it? Boys' own.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35- Who came up with the name Boyzone? - I don't know where the name actually comes from.
0:18:35 > 0:18:39I'd love to tell you a beautiful story about that, all I know is we're called Boyzone
0:18:39 > 0:18:41and...that's it.
0:18:41 > 0:18:42It worked.
0:18:42 > 0:18:43- It worked.- It did, it really worked.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45Thank you very much. Well done.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48Soon after that, two members of the band left.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51Original band member Mark Walton decided to leave
0:18:51 > 0:18:54and Richard Rock was sacked.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Will Richard Rock please make himself known.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00- Of course it was. Well done, Bill. - APPLAUSE
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Richard, I'd like to congratulate you for not being in Boyzone.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05LAUGHTER
0:19:05 > 0:19:06APPLAUSE
0:19:06 > 0:19:09Stand-by Michael Graham was brought in.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11But even with a new line-up,
0:19:11 > 0:19:15the band nearly didn't make it off the starting grid.
0:19:15 > 0:19:19- You and Keith, I mean, you're still mad, you're still a mad 17-year-old boy racer.- Yeah.
0:19:19 > 0:19:25- Out one night in your car with dodgy tyres pumped up, driving too fast... - Yeah.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28- ..Keith is your passenger...- Uh-huh.
0:19:28 > 0:19:29..and you lose it.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35Yeah, it was about 12 o'clock at night, raining...
0:19:37 > 0:19:42..came to a particular corner and out she went sideways, as we say.
0:19:42 > 0:19:43And I remember sliding down the road
0:19:43 > 0:19:46for quite some time, thinking, "Oh, this is going to hurt."
0:19:46 > 0:19:49And I said to Keith, "Hold on tight."
0:19:49 > 0:19:52And I just remember sinking into my chair and then - bang!
0:19:55 > 0:19:59And we went over and over and over quite a few times.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02And we landed upside down in the squashed car,
0:20:02 > 0:20:03hanging in our seatbelts.
0:20:03 > 0:20:04I couldn't say anything
0:20:04 > 0:20:07and I couldn't look because I was afraid of what I might see.
0:20:07 > 0:20:12And it was a deadly silence, an absolute deadly silence.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14He said, "Are you all right, man?" I went, "Yeah. You?"
0:20:14 > 0:20:18He said, "Yeah. Let's get out of this banger." And that's when we pressed the seatbelts
0:20:18 > 0:20:20and nearly broke our necks, you know.
0:20:20 > 0:20:24Climbed out of the car and Shane was as cool as pie, you know.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26I remember the fireman saying,
0:20:26 > 0:20:32"Well, lads...can't sing, can't dance, can't flipping drive either."
0:20:32 > 0:20:33SHE LAUGHS
0:20:33 > 0:20:37That was the defining moment as they drove off.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40I think Louis was MAD with you, wasn't he?
0:20:40 > 0:20:45Louis was pretty frustrated and angry about the fact
0:20:45 > 0:20:48that, obviously, I nearly killed half his band!
0:20:51 > 0:20:54For the next few months, Boyzone toured the pubs and clubs of Ireland
0:20:54 > 0:20:56in a battered old transit van.
0:20:57 > 0:21:01Nothing was handed to us on a plate, we had to go out and earn it for ourselves.
0:21:01 > 0:21:04We had these orange overalls, we used to wear them every night.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06They were stinking because you couldn't wash them.
0:21:06 > 0:21:10You'd take them home and our mas would wash them at the end of the week.
0:21:10 > 0:21:11Why would Boyzone wear something like this?
0:21:11 > 0:21:13Ireland had never seen a boy band or anything,
0:21:13 > 0:21:16so it was really hard for them to even be taken seriously at this point.
0:21:16 > 0:21:20Growing up in Northside, Dublin, in a boy band was a tough time back then.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23Guys our own age would be calling us all sorts of names.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26Vocal harmony groups seem to be all the rage these days.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29I'm delighted to introduce - Boyzone.
0:21:29 > 0:21:33Yes, they actually got another TV show.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Performing their debut single, they look polished and rehearsed.
0:21:37 > 0:21:41# I keep working my way back to you, babe
0:21:41 > 0:21:45- ALL:- # With a burning love inside... #
0:21:45 > 0:21:48This Four Seasons' cover was only released in Ireland
0:21:48 > 0:21:49and peaked at number three.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52# And the happiness that died... #
0:21:52 > 0:21:55But Boyzone were yet to perform in the UK.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59Then we went on the Smash Hits Tour, which kind of changed everything for Boyzone.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01The brilliant Boyzone!
0:22:01 > 0:22:03CHEERING
0:22:08 > 0:22:10Teen magazine Smash Hits
0:22:10 > 0:22:13sponsored an annual music tour around the UK
0:22:13 > 0:22:15featuring readers' favourite bands
0:22:15 > 0:22:18and a Best Band on the Road competition...
0:22:18 > 0:22:19..Boyzone!
0:22:19 > 0:22:24..which Boyzone won in front of a BBC audience of 11 million viewers.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27Everybody at home, we made it. Thank you!
0:22:27 > 0:22:29It was the break they needed.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Britain's number two is that old Osmonds' classic, Love Me For A Reason.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39They're here, they're live on stage with their biggest fan - Boyzone.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42# Don't love me for fun, girl
0:22:42 > 0:22:45# Let me be the one, girl
0:22:45 > 0:22:47# Love me for a reason... #
0:22:47 > 0:22:51And the hits kept coming.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53# We're gonna be so good
0:22:55 > 0:22:58# Like only we could
0:22:58 > 0:23:01# Come on and hit me now
0:23:01 > 0:23:03# Gonna be so good... #
0:23:03 > 0:23:06I think back in the day,
0:23:06 > 0:23:08we weren't a band, we were a product,
0:23:08 > 0:23:10the product that got shopped around the world.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13We were these quite shy, erm,
0:23:13 > 0:23:16polite, nice Irish charming guys.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19- GIRL:- 'Have they got a girlfriend at the moment?'
0:23:19 > 0:23:21- Let's go round. Let's start at that end. Ronan?- No, I haven't.
0:23:21 > 0:23:22- Mikey?- No.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25- Shane?- Unfortunately, no, but I would love one.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27No use appealing on this show.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29We were always welcome on every TV show,
0:23:29 > 0:23:31cos you always knew you would get
0:23:31 > 0:23:34a nice, mannered, polite interview.
0:23:34 > 0:23:36# And all of my dreams
0:23:36 > 0:23:39# Have been locked up inside
0:23:39 > 0:23:44# But you came along and captured my heart, girl... #
0:23:44 > 0:23:48In that early stage of the whole band process,
0:23:48 > 0:23:50I was happy enough to do my oohs and aahs,
0:23:50 > 0:23:53that's all I was there for, I didn't want to take a lead anyway.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57# Blaming myself for what I've done... #
0:23:57 > 0:24:01Well, Shane was always quite... quiet in the early years.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03You know, he kind of kept to himself.
0:24:03 > 0:24:07It was kind of hard to figure out who he was and what he was about.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09# And now I'm missing you so... #
0:24:09 > 0:24:11- I'm the wingman, not the sing-man, you know.- Ah!
0:24:11 > 0:24:16Cos that's always what I was, I was the bookend that held up
0:24:16 > 0:24:19the, you know, real story in the middle.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21- You're going red!- Am I?
0:24:21 > 0:24:23- Ah! - SHANE LAUGHS
0:24:23 > 0:24:26All right, fellas. What you doing here?
0:24:26 > 0:24:30But you all then moved over to London and lived in a flat in Baker Street.
0:24:30 > 0:24:34It was a brilliant, brilliant innocent time for us guys, actually.
0:24:37 > 0:24:41I'd never lived away from home, let alone the rest of the boys,
0:24:41 > 0:24:44so all of a sudden we're in London and we're living in a flat by yourselves.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46We stayed in a hotel first on Russell Square,
0:24:46 > 0:24:50which was very funny cos we didn't have enough money to pay the bill,
0:24:50 > 0:24:56so we had to chuck our bags out a window and we legged it.
0:24:56 > 0:24:57# ..London loves... #
0:24:57 > 0:24:59And we were given daily money to spend.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01How much was your daily money?
0:25:01 > 0:25:04- I think it was 15 quid each.- Each?
0:25:04 > 0:25:05Yeah, a day.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07- Erm... - So you didn't get up to too much?
0:25:07 > 0:25:11Didn't get up to anything! I didn't drink, I didn't smoke, I didn't do any of that.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Did you not have a chaperone or anything to look after you?
0:25:13 > 0:25:18We had nobody there to look after us, we would go and do whatever interviews and they'd drop us home.
0:25:18 > 0:25:22Nobody knew how to cook, nobody knew how to clean, nobody knew anything.
0:25:22 > 0:25:28We were just five lads taken from our mothers in Ireland and dropped in London in this band.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31Well, yeah, trying to make the time, the day go by sometimes...
0:25:31 > 0:25:32We were left to our own devices.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34We played hide-and-go-seek in the dark.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37- We'd turn off all the lights. - Pitch-black, and play hide-and-go-seek.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39All night long, you know what I mean,
0:25:39 > 0:25:43cos we were just silly boys released into this world called London.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46It was just brilliant! Absolutely brilliant.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49Mental. Absolutely mental.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52And then when did you get your first big cheque and what was it for?
0:25:52 > 0:25:57Erm, I think it would be on our second tour before we saw any money.
0:25:57 > 0:25:58So that was... Yeah.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01The only reason I know was because I was 19 years old
0:26:01 > 0:26:04and I bought a car, of course I did, what else would I do with the money?
0:26:04 > 0:26:08- What was the cheque worth?- I think at the time it was about £75,000.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11- SHE GASPS - That was my first cheque I'd seen out of Boyzone.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13So that 75 grand, I remember thinking,
0:26:13 > 0:26:16"Yeah, of course, straight away - boom - Porsche 911."
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Of course I did, what else would I do with it?
0:26:23 > 0:26:26Well, so now you've got the Porsche 911, you've got some money in the bank, I hope?
0:26:26 > 0:26:29- Yeah.- And you're in the big time, that's it.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31The winner is...Boyzone!
0:26:31 > 0:26:34CHEERING
0:26:34 > 0:26:36You've got Best Band in the Universe...
0:26:36 > 0:26:39- Thank you very much! - You've got Best Single...
0:26:39 > 0:26:42And lastly, you've got... I can't see that... Best Album!
0:26:42 > 0:26:44You want that one?
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Boyzone!
0:26:46 > 0:26:51# I had a picture of you in my mind
0:26:51 > 0:26:54# Never knew it could be so wrong... #
0:26:54 > 0:26:59With success came confidence and an image to maintain.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02CHEERING
0:27:02 > 0:27:05# Expressions Impression
0:27:05 > 0:27:07# These girls are out to fascinate
0:27:07 > 0:27:10# Oh, no-no-no-no-no...
0:27:10 > 0:27:12# Whatcha say... #
0:27:12 > 0:27:15I heard that you were voted the coolest man in pop.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17I heard that as well.
0:27:17 > 0:27:22If you look back over the years, I don't think there's any one year that's the same image at all.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25Shano always looked like a pop star.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27I always looked different from the guys,
0:27:27 > 0:27:30always had earrings, gold, whatever, tattoos,
0:27:30 > 0:27:33and they were quite clean in that respect.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35The uniform we wore, as in, they'd always be in suits,
0:27:35 > 0:27:37I would have a long flowing jacket.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39Something always was slightly different.
0:27:39 > 0:27:43Blond? Dark? No, I think the best were his sticks.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45- Do you remember sticks in his hair? - Yes.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48That was the funniest hairstyle he ever had.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50Little twiggy things sticking out of his head.
0:27:50 > 0:27:54# I'll be there when there's no-one else to turn to... #
0:27:54 > 0:27:57Yet, despite the flashy image,
0:27:57 > 0:28:00Shane remained the shy wingman.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03Did your confidence come, though, with your voice and your singing?
0:28:03 > 0:28:05I don't think my confidence in music or singing
0:28:05 > 0:28:08came till we went live on tour.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10Then I understood what it was to be an artist.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13# Can't believe the way I feel now. # CHEERING
0:28:13 > 0:28:14Performing in front of the crowd?
0:28:14 > 0:28:17Singing live on stage with a band to an audience.
0:28:19 > 0:28:23So, tell me about preparing for a big arena show.
0:28:23 > 0:28:24What's the kind of routine?
0:28:24 > 0:28:28You'd probably be in the venue roughly about five o'clock in the day,
0:28:28 > 0:28:31sound check, and then press, press, press, press.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33# One kiss at a time. #
0:28:33 > 0:28:36The last half hour before you were on stage,
0:28:36 > 0:28:40if you possibly could, get back to the dressing room and get your head in gear,
0:28:40 > 0:28:43cos you're about to stand in front of 10,000 people.
0:28:43 > 0:28:45Everybody has their own way.
0:28:45 > 0:28:49Shane walks about in his jocks, erm, with his socks on.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52His socks up to his knees, cleaning his teeth.
0:28:52 > 0:28:54So the lights go, you're all backstage waiting,
0:28:54 > 0:28:57any little words or huddle together?
0:28:57 > 0:29:00Yeah, we always, as a band, and still do till today,
0:29:00 > 0:29:03we always get in our circle and say a little prayer to God,
0:29:03 > 0:29:08just giving thanks for being where we are and to say,
0:29:08 > 0:29:09"Thanks for putting us here."
0:29:09 > 0:29:12CHEERING
0:29:14 > 0:29:18And then that moment when you explode on stage and the house goes wild
0:29:18 > 0:29:22and the lights are beaming in your eyes like phosphorous or something
0:29:22 > 0:29:24and the smoke is swirling...
0:29:24 > 0:29:29- Yeah.- Did you ever lose that, "Oh, we're doing this"?
0:29:29 > 0:29:31- It's breathtaking.- Yeah.
0:29:31 > 0:29:36I don't think I have ever witnessed anything in life as breathtaking
0:29:36 > 0:29:38as walking out on stage in front of a crowd like that.
0:29:38 > 0:29:43It's... It's... I mean, I don't know how you can possibly explain it.
0:29:43 > 0:29:45Amazing emotions. Amazing.
0:29:45 > 0:29:49- And you could give each other a look and you'd know what was happening? - Yeah.
0:29:49 > 0:29:52I tell you, we'll have a laugh and a joke and the best time.
0:29:52 > 0:29:55We'll have such a great time on stage with each other
0:29:55 > 0:29:58that the audience know what's going on and they're all part of our show.
0:29:58 > 0:30:01We're not the most polished band you'll ever go and see.
0:30:01 > 0:30:04To be fair, I don't think I've ever stuck to one routine we've ever done live.
0:30:04 > 0:30:07If I want to go over there, I'm going to go over there.
0:30:07 > 0:30:08# ..Like I knew we would... #
0:30:08 > 0:30:10# Hey! Hey!
0:30:10 > 0:30:12# Oh-Oh... #
0:30:12 > 0:30:15Shane wasn't the only member of the Lynch household
0:30:15 > 0:30:18pursuing a successful career in the music industry.
0:30:18 > 0:30:24Girl band B*Witched featured Shane's twin sisters Edele and Keavy.
0:30:24 > 0:30:26..And one of them has siblings in Boyzone and B*Witched.
0:30:26 > 0:30:28See if you can guess which one.
0:30:28 > 0:30:31Tara was in FAB!
0:30:31 > 0:30:33# ..I hope we find a way... #
0:30:33 > 0:30:37It is crazy that three of us... Sorry, four of us, not three,
0:30:37 > 0:30:40- were on the circuit at the same time in the pop world.- It was five.
0:30:40 > 0:30:41- Five?- Naomi.
0:30:41 > 0:30:43Naomi as well, of course.
0:30:43 > 0:30:46- Our little sister was in Buffalo G at that point as well, so...- Yeah.
0:30:46 > 0:30:48# Really saying something
0:30:48 > 0:30:50# Really saying something... #
0:30:50 > 0:30:53Shane was even in sister Naomi's video.
0:30:56 > 0:30:57It was so much fun
0:30:57 > 0:31:00cos you're just working and hanging out all day and all night.
0:31:00 > 0:31:01- What are they like?- Yeah.
0:31:01 > 0:31:03Oh, well...
0:31:03 > 0:31:07I couldn't say a bad thing about my sisters, to be honest. You know what I mean?
0:31:07 > 0:31:10# C'est la vie. #
0:31:10 > 0:31:12Cue the music and turn over.
0:31:12 > 0:31:15# How can I try now to explain
0:31:15 > 0:31:17# When I do he turns away... #
0:31:17 > 0:31:23The boy from Dublin who had been kicked out of school for being a waste of time was living the dream.
0:31:24 > 0:31:26Boyzone were a household name.
0:31:26 > 0:31:29ALL: # I know I have to go... #
0:31:29 > 0:31:31Quiet!
0:31:31 > 0:31:35And they were enjoying the ever more extreme ways of exploiting them
0:31:35 > 0:31:37and their pop rivals.
0:31:37 > 0:31:42# That's the way it is. #
0:31:42 > 0:31:43CHEERING
0:31:43 > 0:31:46Boyzone...fever!
0:31:46 > 0:31:48- 'What do you wear in bed?' - What do you wear in bed?
0:31:48 > 0:31:51Depends on who's with me.
0:31:51 > 0:31:53- Are you a bit exhausted?- Not at all.
0:31:53 > 0:31:55No, we're five strapping Irish lads, we can go for ever.
0:31:55 > 0:31:58But these strapping Irish lads
0:31:58 > 0:32:01were feeling the pressure of the punishing schedules.
0:32:02 > 0:32:07You've got jet lag, or whatever you're feeling, and you're awake at three, four, five in the morning,
0:32:07 > 0:32:11and you know you have to get up at seven to do a TV show and be all spritely.
0:32:11 > 0:32:13There's...a terrible desperation in that.
0:32:13 > 0:32:15It's very difficult.
0:32:15 > 0:32:17It's very hard to see the wood for the trees
0:32:17 > 0:32:18and you become quite cranky,
0:32:18 > 0:32:21and you get on each other's nerves and stuff like that.
0:32:21 > 0:32:26And then as things do, because you're all together, all the time,
0:32:26 > 0:32:28in this pressure-cooker bubble,
0:32:28 > 0:32:32things obviously start to grate.
0:32:32 > 0:32:37- Yeah.- And start to get boring and exhausting and monotonous.
0:32:37 > 0:32:41When did you feel that first twinge for you that...
0:32:42 > 0:32:43"..I think I've had enough"?
0:32:43 > 0:32:47It was probably towards...
0:32:47 > 0:32:49About '98, 1998.
0:32:49 > 0:32:55I was...starting to change my character,
0:32:55 > 0:32:57which... I knew there was a problem.
0:32:57 > 0:33:00So, I was...
0:33:00 > 0:33:05Rather than being the guy that just got on with things in the early days and made it happen,
0:33:05 > 0:33:08I started to step out of line a little bit.
0:33:08 > 0:33:11I started to notice that he became more withdrawn in interviews.
0:33:11 > 0:33:16We had dreams and hopes, you know, but this has just been amazing for us, this past four years.
0:33:16 > 0:33:20So the rest of the boys would talk. And because I know all of them, I know their personalities,
0:33:20 > 0:33:23I know they've all got something to say, and Shane would be quiet.
0:33:23 > 0:33:28- We liked that one today, so we done it.- We had no choice really.
0:33:28 > 0:33:30'I was very unpredictable. I was an unpredictable guy.
0:33:30 > 0:33:33'They didn't know what I was going to do next, what I was going to say next.'
0:33:33 > 0:33:36- Um...- And not with good humour?
0:33:36 > 0:33:40Not with good humour, because I liked people fearing my character.
0:33:40 > 0:33:45Because I was shy, it also... kind of put me in a position
0:33:45 > 0:33:47where people left me alone.
0:33:47 > 0:33:51He'd do some freaky things, like, you know, sit on a windowsill in an apartment
0:33:51 > 0:33:54with a sheet over his head all night instead of going to bed.
0:33:54 > 0:33:57You kind of think that's a bit strange, that's a bit weird.
0:33:57 > 0:34:01He scared me. He had these black contacts in his eyes,
0:34:01 > 0:34:04so his eyes were totally black, and he wasn't himself.
0:34:04 > 0:34:05Smile, please.
0:34:05 > 0:34:07'He just never smiled.'
0:34:07 > 0:34:12He always looks, like, kind of quite angry and quite irritated by a lot of situations.
0:34:12 > 0:34:16So, where he should have been taking it all in and having the greatest time of his life,
0:34:16 > 0:34:19- he actually, behind closed doors, was having the worst of times.- Yeah.
0:34:20 > 0:34:24Shane's sisters began to notice other changes in their brother.
0:34:24 > 0:34:28I'd meet up with him and it could be 11 o'clock in the morning
0:34:28 > 0:34:30and he'd sit there with a pint.
0:34:30 > 0:34:33"Oh!" You know, you get a bit kind of, "I don't think I like that."
0:34:33 > 0:34:37There was another reason for Shane's unusual behaviour.
0:34:37 > 0:34:42It began in 1996 and the release of Boyzone's second album.
0:34:44 > 0:34:47We had a Halloween party, all the journalists all there.
0:34:47 > 0:34:49I found myself in a room with some people -
0:34:49 > 0:34:50I don't know who they were -
0:34:50 > 0:34:52and a Ouija board, and it fascinated me.
0:34:52 > 0:34:53It really, really did.
0:34:53 > 0:34:58And from there, I took onboard
0:34:58 > 0:35:00a lot of that darker side of the world.
0:35:00 > 0:35:02- Which is very seductive.- Yes.- Yeah.
0:35:02 > 0:35:06You know, a lot of people will go to clairvoyants and tarot readings
0:35:06 > 0:35:08and they don't realise what they're delving into,
0:35:08 > 0:35:10they don't realise that this is
0:35:10 > 0:35:12a bad realm that you really don't want to mess with,
0:35:12 > 0:35:15and I'm a definite witness of that.
0:35:15 > 0:35:17Erm, yeah, I was in a bad way.
0:35:17 > 0:35:19I was in a bad, bad, dark, dark place.
0:35:19 > 0:35:22Your body is full of tattoos, as we know,
0:35:22 > 0:35:27and you have got a broken cross on you somewhere, where is that?
0:35:27 > 0:35:30I have a broken crucifix over my heart
0:35:30 > 0:35:33that I had done in Hong Kong in about 1998.
0:35:33 > 0:35:36- So that was in the grip of this? - Yeah.
0:35:36 > 0:35:39Cos I was anti-Christ, I was anti-God,
0:35:39 > 0:35:41anti-Bible, anti everything to do with it.
0:35:41 > 0:35:43And it's still there,
0:35:43 > 0:35:46it's wrapped in some rosary beads now to try and tie it up,
0:35:46 > 0:35:48but it's still there.
0:35:48 > 0:35:51Well, it's a reminder as well of how far you went.
0:35:51 > 0:35:53- Boyzone! - CHEERING
0:35:53 > 0:35:58The dark side of Shane, his unpredictability and his drinking,
0:35:58 > 0:36:01came to a head at the 1999 MTV Awards,
0:36:01 > 0:36:04which were held in Boyzone's hometown of Dublin.
0:36:04 > 0:36:07The rest of the band were all done up, suited and booted,
0:36:07 > 0:36:09and you couldn't care.
0:36:09 > 0:36:10Look at us now!
0:36:10 > 0:36:13My kind of thinking was,
0:36:13 > 0:36:16"Well, if I go suited and booted like the rest of the lads,
0:36:16 > 0:36:17"we're not going to get one, are we?"
0:36:17 > 0:36:20I'd like to say thank you to all our fans, family, friends...
0:36:20 > 0:36:22'And, actually, we ended up on the stage.'
0:36:22 > 0:36:25We were sitting in the audience of MTV with my mum and dad.
0:36:25 > 0:36:27I'd just like to thank a couple of people...
0:36:27 > 0:36:31And all the boys looking sharp and I was just doing my thing and didn't really care.
0:36:31 > 0:36:35Shane had clearly had a lot to drink.
0:36:35 > 0:36:37CHEERING
0:36:37 > 0:36:41There were all these rumours Boyzone were going their separate ways and were going to split up.
0:36:41 > 0:36:42All right, folks?
0:36:42 > 0:36:45'Shane wasn't having it, so he started getting quite vulgar'
0:36:45 > 0:36:49and then using a couple of swear words, I believe,
0:36:49 > 0:36:51which I was quite shocked at at the time.
0:36:51 > 0:36:55In the press recently
0:36:55 > 0:36:59- there's been a whole load of- BLEEP!
0:36:59 > 0:37:01- about Boyzone... - CHEERING
0:37:02 > 0:37:05..in the year 2000 about breaking up.
0:37:05 > 0:37:09And my poor mam's face just crumpled
0:37:09 > 0:37:11and I was just, like, "What's he doing?!"
0:37:11 > 0:37:15Well, I was actually hosting the awards and it's, like, "Oh, my God!"
0:37:15 > 0:37:20And I have them in my ear going, "OK, move on, move on, on to the next bit. Get him out. Get him out."
0:37:20 > 0:37:22If you look at it now, it's actually not that bad.
0:37:22 > 0:37:25This is a dude in a boy band having a little something to say.
0:37:25 > 0:37:29There's no harm came out of it other than I had a little rant and a go,
0:37:29 > 0:37:34but at the time it was like, ooh, shock horror, for sure, we were this innocent boy band.
0:37:34 > 0:37:36- All right, folks... - Shane, don't say it!
0:37:36 > 0:37:39- It just goes to show you how far he fell.- Yeah.
0:37:39 > 0:37:42- Cos he would never normally do things like that ever.- Never.
0:37:42 > 0:37:46- We're Irish and we'll be here for a long time. - CHEERING
0:37:47 > 0:37:50- I think it was a couple of weeks later we broke up. - SHE LAUGHS
0:37:50 > 0:37:53We've all got some stuff to do on our own for a while,
0:37:53 > 0:37:57but believe me, Boyzone is stronger than it's ever been before.
0:37:57 > 0:38:02Ronan announced the break to fans at the end of a concert in Dublin in January, 2000.
0:38:04 > 0:38:08You know, we all had our own demons, and our own things that we had to deal with,
0:38:08 > 0:38:12and places we wanted to go and things we wanted to do in our lives.
0:38:12 > 0:38:16And, I guess, I was the reason that that break led to a break-up.
0:38:16 > 0:38:19Erm, it wasn't easy at times between us all,
0:38:19 > 0:38:25people had words to say and it was hard...to take it.
0:38:25 > 0:38:26It was a tough time to break up,
0:38:26 > 0:38:30when we were coming to the top of our game, we broke up.
0:38:30 > 0:38:33Thankfully, we stopped when we did,
0:38:33 > 0:38:37because it was about to get real horrible and real messy.
0:38:37 > 0:38:40And Ronan went on to do his solo project
0:38:40 > 0:38:44and that just lasted for a lot longer than any of us expected.
0:38:44 > 0:38:50There was probably never a chance to come out of it if we had continued, you know,
0:38:50 > 0:38:54so I was lucky I was left alone in my house in Surrey,
0:38:54 > 0:38:57my million pound mansion by myself and all my anger, you know.
0:38:57 > 0:39:00So, you sit at home thinking, "What now?"
0:39:00 > 0:39:04Yeah, in an odd sense of freedom, because I didn't have anywhere to go.
0:39:04 > 0:39:08I used to wake up panicking, thinking I'm meant to be at the airport,
0:39:08 > 0:39:10thinking I'm missing the car, "The car's outside!"
0:39:10 > 0:39:14- Like, panicked for months and months and months.- Were you drinking?
0:39:14 > 0:39:18Yeah, I was drinking a lot...almost to go back into a fantasy world,
0:39:18 > 0:39:21- cos music is a fantasy world.- Yeah.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23Travelling the world in private jets,
0:39:23 > 0:39:26champagne, caviar, limousines, best hotels.
0:39:26 > 0:39:29I don't go to the shops, I've never been to the shops,
0:39:29 > 0:39:32I don't know what's in my fridge, there's nothing in my fridge, you know.
0:39:32 > 0:39:36I didn't know how to live in a normal world because I was taken as a young boy.
0:39:36 > 0:39:38I was always looked after by my mother,
0:39:38 > 0:39:41into this world of the band, being looked after by people,
0:39:41 > 0:39:43did nothing for myself particularly, so now I had to learn.
0:39:43 > 0:39:47What were your parents doing at that time? They must have been worried about you?
0:39:47 > 0:39:49They didn't know what was going on,
0:39:49 > 0:39:51I didn't tell them what was going on.
0:39:51 > 0:39:53I wasn't a very open guy and still aren't.
0:39:53 > 0:39:56In fact, I find it easier to talk about life on camera
0:39:56 > 0:40:00than I do to actually sit and talk to my wife or my parents,
0:40:00 > 0:40:01for whatever that reason is.
0:40:03 > 0:40:07He didn't know how to cope with whatever he was dealing with in those dark times.
0:40:07 > 0:40:11Erm, and I think he would have been quite happy to let us all drift away.
0:40:12 > 0:40:15You kind of do that though, don't you? I've gone through some dark times in my life
0:40:15 > 0:40:18and you tend to do that, push everyone close enough away.
0:40:18 > 0:40:22They didn't really know what was going on, I didn't tell them what was going on,
0:40:22 > 0:40:25so I was a one-man band in that respect.
0:40:25 > 0:40:30- So who held out a hand to you and helped?- One particular guy, Ben.
0:40:30 > 0:40:31Ben Ofoedu.
0:40:31 > 0:40:34- Ben was a huge influence on Shane's life.- A huge change.
0:40:35 > 0:40:38# Got to turn around... #
0:40:38 > 0:40:39In the late-1990s,
0:40:39 > 0:40:42Ben Ofoedu was lead singer of the band Phats & Small.
0:40:42 > 0:40:44# Listen to what I say... #
0:40:44 > 0:40:48But he'd known Shane back in the early days of Boyzone.
0:40:48 > 0:40:51Each time it was a different Shane. He would...
0:40:51 > 0:40:55You know, when I first met him he never drank, he never...
0:40:55 > 0:41:00He was always just more into cars and stuff, but this time he was more reckless, he was more rock-and-roll.
0:41:00 > 0:41:04Erm, he had that kind of aggression, it's like, you know,
0:41:04 > 0:41:08"I'm watching you. Say the wrong thing and I'll flip."
0:41:08 > 0:41:12# Hey, what's wrong with you?
0:41:13 > 0:41:16# You're looking kind of down to me... #
0:41:16 > 0:41:21Ben, there was something about that guy, he had a beautiful nature,
0:41:21 > 0:41:23a beautiful nature, and his heart was for people,
0:41:23 > 0:41:28and there was something about what he was talking about really attracted me.
0:41:28 > 0:41:30# Listen to what I say... #
0:41:30 > 0:41:35I was always a Christian, and I was always very particular about the things I sung about,
0:41:35 > 0:41:37and particularly about the things I said,
0:41:37 > 0:41:40whereas, at that time, I think Shane would have just said anything.
0:41:40 > 0:41:43He didn't really care, he didn't really look at it like that.
0:41:43 > 0:41:46# Got to turn around... #
0:41:47 > 0:41:53And so, that's when a lot of the subject of God and things like that
0:41:53 > 0:41:56started to come up and it became a topic of conversation.
0:41:56 > 0:42:01I mean, I grew up in a Catholic household, so I know a lot of biblical stories,
0:42:01 > 0:42:05but he was taking them and putting them into my life and showing me
0:42:05 > 0:42:09how I was like this particular character or that particular character.
0:42:09 > 0:42:11And it just intrigued me to the point of, like,
0:42:11 > 0:42:13"Whoa! This...this is amazing!"
0:42:13 > 0:42:17And the more we began to talk about it,
0:42:17 > 0:42:20he started to reveal to me, slowly but surely,
0:42:20 > 0:42:24that there more under the surface was going on
0:42:24 > 0:42:27than just that anger with the band stuff.
0:42:27 > 0:42:30And stuff that he couldn't quite explain
0:42:30 > 0:42:32and he couldn't quite get his mind around.
0:42:34 > 0:42:38And, erm, I said, "Listen, I've got to tell you about...
0:42:38 > 0:42:39"I've got a problem."
0:42:39 > 0:42:44He was experiencing this paralysis where he couldn't move,
0:42:44 > 0:42:48his eyes were open and then the dimensions would split,
0:42:48 > 0:42:53so the room would open up and things would fly past his eyes and sight
0:42:53 > 0:42:55and he couldn't move.
0:42:55 > 0:42:58I saw a lot of the spiritual world.
0:42:58 > 0:43:02And it manifested itself in this awful sleep paralysis,
0:43:02 > 0:43:06which a lot of people do have, but this was terrifying for you.
0:43:06 > 0:43:09Yeah, you know, I danced with the devil without a doubt.
0:43:09 > 0:43:13I hung out with his demonic principalities, definitely.
0:43:13 > 0:43:18Usually, erm, I would have kind of, I would have run a mile, right,
0:43:18 > 0:43:24but there was something about Shane that I really feel that I had a connection with.
0:43:25 > 0:43:29He probably should have turned and ran because that should have been scary.
0:43:29 > 0:43:32He embraced that and he took it onboard and he was like, "Cool, no problem."
0:43:32 > 0:43:34And he had the answers for me.
0:43:34 > 0:43:36And every day I'd call him
0:43:36 > 0:43:39and I got probably a little obsessive, I suppose -
0:43:39 > 0:43:41I don't know if he'd ever say that or not! -
0:43:41 > 0:43:43but I just wanted to hear his voice.
0:43:43 > 0:43:48Even two lines he would speak to me, it was filling me, you know,
0:43:48 > 0:43:51it was like just being topped up, topped up, topped up.
0:43:51 > 0:43:56From there, I was determined to then find out, "Well, who's God?"
0:43:56 > 0:44:00And that was where I really started my journey.
0:44:00 > 0:44:04He picked up the phone and actually phoned me after maybe three or four years.
0:44:04 > 0:44:06I was like, "Oh, do you not want anything?"
0:44:06 > 0:44:08He went, "No, I was just seeing how you were." And I thought, "Wow!
0:44:08 > 0:44:11"OK, this church is doing something for you, that's good."
0:44:13 > 0:44:17Shane was still slowly putting his life back together when in 2001,
0:44:17 > 0:44:20he went to London's Party in the Park.
0:44:20 > 0:44:23And I was there, I was drinking, of course I was there drinking.
0:44:23 > 0:44:27A young singer working with another Irish boyband, Westlife, spotted him backstage.
0:44:27 > 0:44:29I knew who he was.
0:44:29 > 0:44:32I said to my friend, "Oh, my God! I think he's so gorgeous."
0:44:32 > 0:44:36So my friend said, "Go and talk to him." And I went, "Are you mad?
0:44:36 > 0:44:38"No! No, no, no way!"
0:44:38 > 0:44:40And I remember this girl came over to talk to me
0:44:40 > 0:44:42and she...she was lovely, she was beautiful.
0:44:42 > 0:44:46A stunning, stunning girl. I remember thinking, "Wow! She's stunning!"
0:44:46 > 0:44:50The two got chatting and numbers were exchanged.
0:44:50 > 0:44:54And then I got this text, like, maybe a year later out of the blue,
0:44:54 > 0:44:57asking if I wanted to meet up for a drink and I thought, "Yeah, why not?"
0:44:57 > 0:45:02And we spent every single day together for a year or more,
0:45:02 > 0:45:06not one single day went past that I didn't see that girl.
0:45:06 > 0:45:10And every day I'd drive from my house to where she lived,
0:45:10 > 0:45:13which is an hour or so away, so that means I couldn't drink.
0:45:13 > 0:45:16So she got me off the drink.
0:45:16 > 0:45:19She lived with her mum, so I couldn't stay at her mum's house,
0:45:19 > 0:45:22because her mum's... It's all very church, it's all very serious.
0:45:22 > 0:45:25So I had met somebody who just...
0:45:25 > 0:45:26Well, basically, love, I found love.
0:45:26 > 0:45:29# Your grace... #
0:45:29 > 0:45:33And in Sheena was someone who shares Shane's Christian faith.
0:45:33 > 0:45:37It was really important for me that somebody who I was going to marry
0:45:37 > 0:45:42and have a family with has faith, believes in God...
0:45:44 > 0:45:50..because I don't know how anybody...lives without faith.
0:45:50 > 0:45:54I don't understand it. It just doesn't... I don't get it.
0:45:54 > 0:45:57BAND PLAYS CHRISTIAN ROCK MUSIC
0:46:00 > 0:46:03Yet Shane and Sheena come from very different church traditions.
0:46:03 > 0:46:06Sheena's church is Pentecostal.
0:46:07 > 0:46:09We come from straight out of scripture.
0:46:09 > 0:46:12The Bible says, "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord," and we do that,
0:46:12 > 0:46:14we make a joyful noise.
0:46:14 > 0:46:17# His hand... #
0:46:17 > 0:46:20So I think he found that in the beginning a lot.
0:46:20 > 0:46:25You would, coming from, you know, get up, sit down.
0:46:25 > 0:46:28It's different, you know, quiet, and to clapping your hands
0:46:28 > 0:46:31and singing, and a live band and live music.
0:46:31 > 0:46:36And you started to go to Bible Class with her?
0:46:36 > 0:46:40Because of Ben, I was hungry... I was hungry for God
0:46:40 > 0:46:43because of what it was doing for me, how it was making me feel,
0:46:43 > 0:46:45so I started to listen to what, you know, was being said.
0:46:45 > 0:46:48And the most amazing thing about that is, I thought
0:46:48 > 0:46:52I was going into a classroom, schooling, and it frightened the life out of me.
0:46:52 > 0:46:55What our focus is is on giving God...
0:46:55 > 0:47:00This was the old fear of not being able to read and write.
0:47:00 > 0:47:04I can't read the Bible, so I can't write nothing down.
0:47:04 > 0:47:06So I didn't really know what I was getting involved in,
0:47:06 > 0:47:09but I just listened and listened and learned and learned.
0:47:09 > 0:47:13And the relevance of how the Bible was broken down into today's, you know,
0:47:13 > 0:47:16of who we are and how it can deal with our life.
0:47:16 > 0:47:17- The relevance?- The relevance.
0:47:17 > 0:47:21And he came to one and then you couldn't stop him from coming to them, basically,
0:47:21 > 0:47:23I think he just learnt so much.
0:47:23 > 0:47:26I loved it! I could not get enough of it.
0:47:26 > 0:47:28It was the most magical thing ever.
0:47:28 > 0:47:30The Bible sort of opened up
0:47:30 > 0:47:34in a way that he had never known or seen before.
0:47:34 > 0:47:36And then you got baptised?
0:47:36 > 0:47:41Yeah. That's a fantastic blessing in anyone's life, to be baptised.
0:47:41 > 0:47:44I wish I was back there, nearly 12 years ago now
0:47:44 > 0:47:46when I first came to God.
0:47:46 > 0:47:47I would love to have that again.
0:47:47 > 0:47:50I'd love to be in that place where I was just...
0:47:50 > 0:47:54that zeal, that vessel getting filled up by that knowledge,
0:47:54 > 0:47:57that joy, that love, it's incredible.
0:47:57 > 0:48:00I think it's amazing the journey he's gone through from what he was,
0:48:00 > 0:48:04to be strong enough to come through it. It's something to be quite proud of it.
0:48:04 > 0:48:08I'm quite proud of it and he should be too, cos it's a big deal making a turn like that.
0:48:08 > 0:48:11# You're the air that I breathe
0:48:11 > 0:48:14# Girl, you're all that I need
0:48:14 > 0:48:18# And I wanna thank you, lady... #
0:48:18 > 0:48:20Shane's life was back on track.
0:48:20 > 0:48:23In 2007, he married Sheena.
0:48:23 > 0:48:26Stephen Gately was best man and, soon afterwards,
0:48:26 > 0:48:30Boyzone were reunited after a seven-year break.
0:48:30 > 0:48:34At that stage, we'd all had to live in reality for seven years.
0:48:34 > 0:48:38We'd come out of our bubble, we realised how lucky we had been.
0:48:38 > 0:48:41And to get that opportunity and chance again was very special.
0:48:41 > 0:48:45We didn't...we didn't blink. We enjoyed every moment.
0:48:46 > 0:48:49The group were planning a fourth studio album
0:48:49 > 0:48:52when tragedy struck in October 2009.
0:48:55 > 0:48:58Tributes are being paid to the Boyzone singer, Stephen Gately,
0:48:58 > 0:49:00who's died while on holiday on the Spanish island of Majorca
0:49:00 > 0:49:02at the age of 33...
0:49:04 > 0:49:09Before Stephen, he hadn't had anybody close in his life
0:49:09 > 0:49:13that had passed away and it came as a real...
0:49:13 > 0:49:16real shock to him, erm, to all of them.
0:49:19 > 0:49:24Stephen died, aged 33, of an undiagnosed heart condition.
0:49:25 > 0:49:28You know, Steo and Shano had a very, you know,
0:49:28 > 0:49:30a particular strong bond.
0:49:30 > 0:49:34You know, Shane looked after Steo, you know,
0:49:34 > 0:49:36protected him almost, in a way.
0:49:36 > 0:49:39I loved him, loved him dearly.
0:49:39 > 0:49:41He, to me, he was my little brother.
0:49:41 > 0:49:44Now he's older than I, er, by a year or so,
0:49:44 > 0:49:46but he was always my little brother.
0:49:46 > 0:49:49Shane is one of the hardest, toughest men I have ever met.
0:49:51 > 0:49:55But, you know, to see him break like he did broke my heart.
0:50:07 > 0:50:10The boys came together and they were amazing for Steo.
0:50:10 > 0:50:13The way they flew over to him and made sure he got back safe
0:50:13 > 0:50:15and organised the whole funeral and everything.
0:50:16 > 0:50:20The boys also made a promise to Stephen's parents.
0:50:21 > 0:50:25Stephen had to spend a night in the church before his funeral.
0:50:25 > 0:50:29And his mother just basically said that, um, he didn't like the dark
0:50:29 > 0:50:31and she didn't want him in the church on his own.
0:50:31 > 0:50:34And we just said, "Well, look, hang on.
0:50:34 > 0:50:37"We'll spend the night in the church with him."
0:50:37 > 0:50:39To lay next to a coffin all night,
0:50:39 > 0:50:41that's a spooky thing to do, to be fair.
0:50:41 > 0:50:44But we all... we got our sleeping bags,
0:50:44 > 0:50:49the priest came in with a couple of bottles of wine for us, and at...
0:50:49 > 0:50:52I think it was about 12 o'clock at night. We were all starving hungry!
0:50:52 > 0:50:56I didn't think about food, and there was a knock on the church door -
0:50:56 > 0:51:01no word of a lie, if you know the name - but in came Daniel O'Donnell.
0:51:01 > 0:51:05- No!- In came Daniel O'Donnell with a load of fish and chips.
0:51:05 > 0:51:08- Did he?!- We sat, we ate.
0:51:08 > 0:51:14We laughed, we joked, erm, just told amazing stories about Steo.
0:51:14 > 0:51:17But it was an amazing thing to do, a magical thing to do.
0:51:17 > 0:51:21We seen him off with joy instead of sorrow.
0:51:21 > 0:51:24That was unique. That was very special for the four of us,
0:51:24 > 0:51:28cos it was our last night together as a five-piece, I guess.
0:51:28 > 0:51:30And, er, yeah, we laughed and we cried
0:51:30 > 0:51:32and we got through the night together and...
0:51:33 > 0:51:36..the next morning, we laid our brother to rest. It was very hard.
0:51:36 > 0:51:39Very, very difficult.
0:51:39 > 0:51:43# For all I've been blessed with in this life
0:51:45 > 0:51:50# There was an emptiness in me
0:51:53 > 0:51:58# I was imprisoned by the power of gold... #
0:51:58 > 0:52:00Were you angry with God?
0:52:00 > 0:52:04I don't...I don't know the future of what he has planned.
0:52:04 > 0:52:07I can only accept it, because that's his time. That was Steo's time.
0:52:07 > 0:52:11# Let the world stop turning... #
0:52:11 > 0:52:15When he passed, we were in the middle of making an album and...
0:52:15 > 0:52:19it was very easy just to go, "We're not that band any more,"
0:52:19 > 0:52:20to call it a day and to stop,
0:52:20 > 0:52:22and I'm so thankful we didn't.
0:52:22 > 0:52:24I'm so thankful we finished the album.
0:52:29 > 0:52:32We realised that the one thing Steo would have wanted
0:52:32 > 0:52:36was for Boyzone to go on, because it allowed Steo almost,
0:52:36 > 0:52:39his memory to live on too through the songs.
0:52:40 > 0:52:44# Why-y-y
0:52:44 > 0:52:48# I lay my heart down on the floor! #
0:52:50 > 0:52:55Boyzone's album Brother was released five months after Stephen's death
0:52:55 > 0:52:58and features the last vocals he ever recorded.
0:52:58 > 0:53:00# But I gave it all away
0:53:00 > 0:53:02- STEPHEN:- # I-I-I-I-I... #
0:53:03 > 0:53:06It went platinum in the week Stephen would've turned 34.
0:53:10 > 0:53:14Of course I shed many a tear and still do sometimes, um,
0:53:14 > 0:53:17usually one of the times you're not expecting it
0:53:17 > 0:53:19is when it kind of hits you.
0:53:19 > 0:53:24Um, the best times I can have with Stephen today is
0:53:24 > 0:53:27with the other boys, cos that's my memories, that's our stories,
0:53:27 > 0:53:30that's when we talk about him and that's when we celebrate him.
0:53:30 > 0:53:37# I showed you love You wanted more-ore-ore... #
0:53:37 > 0:53:41On stage with the boys, what I feel is we will always be five.
0:53:41 > 0:53:46In my head, he's there and it's brilliant to have him there.
0:53:47 > 0:53:50- STEPHEN:- # I gave it all away. #
0:53:58 > 0:54:0122 years after their Late Late Show debut,
0:54:01 > 0:54:03Boyzone are stronger than ever,
0:54:03 > 0:54:07recording, touring, enjoying each other's company.
0:54:08 > 0:54:10They are brothers.
0:54:10 > 0:54:13When they get together, honestly, it is...
0:54:13 > 0:54:17out and out, just you laugh and you laugh and you laugh.
0:54:19 > 0:54:21When they tour, they'll be touring the world,
0:54:21 > 0:54:25but they still share one dressing room, running around laughing,
0:54:25 > 0:54:27like they were when they were 17.
0:54:27 > 0:54:29It's a real beautiful thing to see.
0:54:31 > 0:54:35It's like time just stood still.
0:54:36 > 0:54:40Shane's demons are well and truly behind him.
0:54:40 > 0:54:42The Shane I know now, really I suppose,
0:54:42 > 0:54:44is kind of like the Shane I first met.
0:54:44 > 0:54:47But it was a different Shane in the middle.
0:54:47 > 0:54:51You know, we all had to go to an extreme to grow up, to come back,
0:54:51 > 0:54:54to find out the person that we want to be for the rest of our lives.
0:54:54 > 0:54:59And he smiles a lot more than he used to, definitely.
0:54:59 > 0:55:02He's a pure gentleman. He has a heart the size of, of Ireland.
0:55:03 > 0:55:05And 12 years after his baptism,
0:55:05 > 0:55:08faith remains at the centre of Shane's life.
0:55:08 > 0:55:12He found God and it done him the world of good.
0:55:12 > 0:55:17Shane started to find his faith and, er, everything changed for Shano.
0:55:17 > 0:55:20And, you know what, he's just... he's one in a billion.
0:55:20 > 0:55:25The thing is, I love Jesus, I love, love, love, love my Lord, my God
0:55:25 > 0:55:28and for what he has taken me from to what I am now.
0:55:28 > 0:55:33But that said, like everything, it gets to a point you have to now
0:55:33 > 0:55:38find a balance in life and God eventually does let your hand go,
0:55:38 > 0:55:42meaning, I've got two daughters, er, my little Marlee now,
0:55:42 > 0:55:45she's three years old, but I'll still hold her hand
0:55:45 > 0:55:46walking on the pavement.
0:55:46 > 0:55:49She's not ready to be let go yet.
0:55:49 > 0:55:52And God will eventually get to that point where he lets your hand go,
0:55:52 > 0:55:57so there's a little bit of comfort that almost feels has slightly gone,
0:55:57 > 0:56:01but it's also your time to show you're not going to run out onto the road!
0:56:01 > 0:56:05# Sometimes if I stopped You closed my eyes
0:56:07 > 0:56:12# I believe that it's all true Believe it! #
0:56:12 > 0:56:14- And we're nearly at Christmas.- Yeah!
0:56:14 > 0:56:17And so, Christmas obviously makes you very happy.
0:56:17 > 0:56:18What are you doing for Christmas?
0:56:18 > 0:56:22I got into panto in 2004, I think, was my first one.
0:56:22 > 0:56:25'So, this year, I am playing Captain Hook.'
0:56:25 > 0:56:28I am Prince Michael of Donegal!
0:56:28 > 0:56:30Once upon a time, I was a prince...
0:56:30 > 0:56:32- Oh!- ..and now I'm the baddie!
0:56:32 > 0:56:35Christmas food. Who does the cooking? Sheena or you?
0:56:35 > 0:56:39We have a very strange tradition in the Lynch household,
0:56:39 > 0:56:43where Christmas dinner doesn't consist of a turkey.
0:56:43 > 0:56:45It consists of shellfish, so lobsters.
0:56:46 > 0:56:49- He cooks a wicked lobster and steak. - He does.
0:56:50 > 0:56:53- I'm cooking a lobster tails...- Ooh!
0:56:53 > 0:56:57..in a champagne sauce and a hint of Irish.
0:56:57 > 0:56:58What?
0:56:58 > 0:57:00Oh, some potatoes.
0:57:00 > 0:57:03Lobsters - yeah, at Christmas, I know, it's weird.
0:57:03 > 0:57:05Erm, I think that's definitely a Lynch thing.
0:57:05 > 0:57:07Pretty damn nice dinner, to be fair.
0:57:07 > 0:57:09- You're more than welcome. - I'll be round.
0:57:09 > 0:57:12- What time do you eat? Is it after the Queen?- Around two o'clock.
0:57:12 > 0:57:13- Perfect, just before the Queen.- Yeah.
0:57:13 > 0:57:17- Shane, thank you and Happy Christmas! - Happy Christmas. Thank you.
0:57:18 > 0:57:24- # I can't deny what I believe - What I believe, yeah!
0:57:24 > 0:57:29- # I can't be what I'm not - I know, I know... #
0:57:29 > 0:57:34What a story and how unabashed Shane is when he talks about his faith
0:57:34 > 0:57:38and he talks so eloquently about his beliefs as well.
0:57:38 > 0:57:41And I think that story about God holding your hand
0:57:41 > 0:57:46until you are ready to let go safely is perhaps a Christmas present
0:57:46 > 0:57:49that we can all share and take home from Shane.
0:57:49 > 0:57:52- # That's all that matters to me - No, no matter what... #
0:57:55 > 0:57:58Next week, I meet Linford Christie -
0:57:58 > 0:58:02European, Commonwealth, World and Olympic gold medallist.
0:58:02 > 0:58:06I feel that I was born to run.
0:58:06 > 0:58:08A failed drugs test marred his career,
0:58:08 > 0:58:11but he's always denied wrong-doing.
0:58:11 > 0:58:13People can say lots of bad things about me,
0:58:13 > 0:58:17but to say they can prove I have taken drugs...
0:58:17 > 0:58:18It's a load of rubbish.
0:58:18 > 0:58:24Linford talks about the role of his faith during the highs and the lows.
0:58:24 > 0:58:28# Pass around the bottle and we'll share your troubles
0:58:28 > 0:58:32# Say la, la, la, la, la, la Love will save the day
0:58:33 > 0:58:38# Pass around the bottle and we'll share your troubles
0:58:38 > 0:58:42# Say la, la, la, la, la, la Love will save the day
0:58:42 > 0:58:47# Say la, la, la, la, la, la Love will save the day. #
0:58:47 > 0:58:49- CHEERING - Thank you!