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Needs updating

This page really needs updating. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.182.40.92 (talk) 16:58, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Horrible condition of this article and related pages

This article and related articles need cleaning and updating. Due to lack of time I have just accumulated some resource that the editor might find useful. If no one comes up to edit the pages, I'll do them myself, but help is appreciated.

Here's a link to the history. I hope someone cross checks it and incorporates it after formatting. http://members.tripod.com/aditimukherjee/tthistory.htm

The official site is dumped and nothing official exists. The following can be taken as close to official in nature.
All music guide http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:2f1uak2kgm3k~T1
Billboard http://billboard.com/bbcom/bio/index.jsp?pid=171740&aid=373341

Most of the fansites are dead due to inactivity and all I could gather was this.
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/5907/ [this is surprising. They are up since 1997!!]
http://members.tripod.com/~RSSKM/ [this one has some bio information about the members]

I hope someone would help and organize this stuff. It's not even listed under any wiki project. 54UV1K 07:01, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Colin Farrell auditioned for the group, as did Richard Rock (son of Dickie Rock), who landed the gig" - was this article written by David Brent? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.173.69.98 (talk) 11:13, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'll do my best to help with this. Thanks for the links StephenBHedges (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:39, 14 October 2009 (UTC).[reply]

I really want to know who changed every Boyzone in "Gay"zone .. wanted to change it, but it allready was changed. SubbeOne (talk) 01:53, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Brother album

The certification of the album "brother" needs to be updated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Portugal1234 (talk • contribs) 12:47, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sales of Boyzone

I believe the sales of Boyzone to be slightly lower of around 15 million please can this be checked it'll be apreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.7.101.194 (talk) 10:41, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pesf aka Portugal1234 aka ip 92.7.xxx.xxx. This is no reason to add unverified information to articles about Boyzone. Examples of your edits: 1 million copies, 500,000 copies, 10,000 copies, 5xGold. Where does it come? From your head?--Uptownboy (talk) 14:48, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

These figures are there because it was an estimation that i done guessing by previous sales of boyzone albums, the certification of the album Brother should be done just like the rest of the albums are done, Boyzone have released less then 20 million of around 15 million but if you don't want it to be accuarate then leave it how it is. I'm only here for things to be put right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ricardo8039 (talk • contribs) 20:58, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please put this into the Future section

Ronan Keating has told Undercover that the next Boyzone tour may very well be the last thing the Irish act ever does together.

“We will be touring in February and March. With Stephen passing away last year I don’t know if it can ever be the same again,” he tells undercover.fm. “I don’t know if there will be a life for Boyzone. The tour will tell us a lot, if the void is too big or if we can move along as a four piece. We haven’t done a whole lot of work together this year because it hasn’t felt right. The tour will show us everything and it could be the last thing we ever do together as a band”.

This year Ronan has been living in Australia and working as a judge in X Factor. Before that, the four surviving members of Boyzone recorded a released a new album featuring vocals from Stephen. “Stephen passed away in October and we recorded the album in December and January. We were still very numb,” he says. “We were around each other constantly, we kind of rallied around each other. The energy in the studio, it felt like Stephen was with us all the time. We were on this buzz. It was a strange buzz but it kept us going. We knew we had to make this album. We had recorded some of Stephen’s vocals earlier in the year so we used those as well. We very much felt like he was part of the album. Then as the year has gone on it has just been different. We have done the odd little performance but it hasn’t felt right. The tour will be a real guide for us whether we can go on”. http://www.undercover.fm/news/12858-ronan-keating-says-boyzone-future-is-uncertain

COULD SOMEONE PLEASE PUT THIS INTO THE FUTURE SECTION PLEASE —Preceding unsigned comment added by Caroline123456 (talk • contribs) 18:48, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

New photo

I think it's time this photo should be put in this article because the current one is old. Boyzone_2011_(single_picture).jpg‎ ‎ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roehampton1234 (talk • contribs) 22:50, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Miscellaneous

Stephen Gately is dead and is not part of boyzone please erase him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.147.63.109 (talk) 16:20, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Boyzone are like Take That and our appraoching their late 30 to 40 yrs and they are vocal groups. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.25.14.255 (talk) 19:02, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Grossing from tours

Back Again... No Matter What Tour - £25 million
Better Tour - £8 million
Brother Tour - £6 million — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.98.246.44 (talk) 14:51, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Boyzone Sales

On the back of Stephen Gately's book, it says they sold 40 million copies of their albums worldwide. Has this figure been updated from the 20 million in the article? --HighKing (talk) 02:56, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Late Late Show

No mention of BoyZone's first "stellar" performance on Gaye Byrne's show or has it been added in the past but quickly deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.114.145.210 (talk) 18:43, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Boy" band?

Boyzone were obviously a boy band when they formed in the early 1990s.

But now the members are in their thirties and forties. Is it right for the intro to say that Boyzone is still a boy band? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.78.160.232 (talk) 06:17, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request: 08/09/2017

There is a syntax/formatting error in the 'Brother' section. A sentence is split across two paragraphs. Someone with editing privileges should fix. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Benjamin180 (talk • contribs) 03:54, 9 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed it.--Laun chba ller 11:47, 9 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Years active: 1993-2000, 2008-present Trong Dy Huynh Vu (talk) 02:59, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Trong Dy Huynh Vu:

Not done. I think it's set for 2007 because the meetings were taking place and the reunion was confirmed that year. CityOfSilver 03:20, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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There are several issues with this page, but I will only list a few, as time does not permit more.

One sentence reads, "The surviving members of Boyzone, Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham, Ronan Keating and Shane Lynch, issued a joint statement:" It ends with a colon, and no statement is quoted. Another sentence: "Fans responded with messages of sympathy on the social media." There should be no definite article preceding "social media" in this context.

Sentence 3 reads, "One song was written by singer-songwriter Mika,[31][32] who has also claimed that the new song he wrote for Boyzone is the last one which will feature Gately's vocals in which he and Keating shared the vocals and originally the song would have led to Ronan singing first then Stephen would sing the second part prior to that, the song was released as their fourth studio album on 8 March 2010." This one seems to never want to stop. It should obviously read, "One song was written by singer-songwriter Mika,[31][32] who has also claimed that the new song he wrote for Boyzone is the last one which will feature Gately's vocals, in which he and Keating shared the vocals. Originally, the song would have had Ronan singing first then Stephen would sing the second part. Prior to that, the song was released on their fourth studio album on 8 March 2010." A song is obviously not an album. In addition, the sentence states that "Originally the song..." which implies that something else occurred other than what was "originally" planned, but gives no alternate version.

The sentence following the one above reads, "The track written by Mika became the lead single from the new album, titled "Gave It All Away"." However, the heading of this section and the text (other than this sentence) imply that the album is entitled "Brother", not "Gave It All Away", as the existing sentence states.

Last example: "A Huge contribution to the background and lead vocals in their tours since 2011 has come from backing vocalist Jo Garland who has sung with Ronan Keating in his solo ventures since 2001 and with Boyzone since 2008, her vocals have been more prominent often covering for vocals that Stephen Gately sung." The obvious correction is: "A Huge contribution to the background and lead vocals in their tours since 2011 has come from backing vocalist Jo Garland, who has sung with Ronan Keating in his solo ventures since 2001 and with Boyzone since 2008. Her vocals have become more prominent, often covering for vocals that Stephen Gately had sung (or sang)."

It might be useful for someone that is knowledgeable about the English language to read this article. I only read parts of it because I was trying to get some context and background for another article I was reading. However, parts of this article are very confusing. I hope this is helpful.

ETO Buff (talk) 07:45, 1 July 2018 (UTC) ETO Buff (talk) 07:45, 1 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. — LeoFrank ^Talk 08:36, 1 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Band Members ?!?

It is very interesting, there is not any Line-ups (Or Members) section for this band !! Also Where is the current band members list in the right-side bar ?!? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bezyjoon (talk • contribs) 02:51, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Where they a band?

Technicially not one member could play a musical instrument therefore they were not a band! They claim having No.1 hits yet they release songs that had already been No.1 hit by the original artists. They were a manufactured group of dancers that sung karakoe but claimed to be bigger than the Beatles. They were commerical trash generted to sell music to teenagers. There are an insult to musicians and singer song writers. 109.76.32.215 (talk) 18:32, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]