westlife - somebody needs you.mp3 NEW! way out westlife the boy band that superseded boyzone in the squelchy hearts of little girls is back with a new album.Life is indeed a strange and curious beast. Just when you thought it was safe for filthy rock 'n' roll bands to wee-wee all over the landscape, along comes a raft of squeaky clean boys with dyed blonde hair and cover versions. The result? No more rock music in the charts (or, at least, no more rock music that means anything) and a bunch of cute guys in oversized Dolce & Gabbana. It's as if punk rock never happened. Boyz oh Boyzone - what have you done?

In 1993, when Boyzone appeared on The Late Late Show dressed in girlie cast-offs, goofy faces and a dancing style rarely seen outside the monkey cages of the Dublin Zoo at feeding time, the nation laughed long and hard. Seven years later, the joke is most definitely on us. Boyzone has changed cast-offs for glad rags, kept songwriters in money for the rest of their natural born lives and proven their critics (guilty, m'lud) totally and irrefutably wrong.