What Happened To The Beautiful South?
The Beautiful South split up after 19 years of fabulous pop music in February 2006. Citing a typical tongue-in-cheek comment, the South said in a statement they had split up because of “musical similarities”. The best musical talent ever to come out of Hull, the group arose from the ashes of the 1980s band the Housemartins. Paul Heaton and David Hemmingway were the band’s most prominent vocalists. They also had a total of three different female vocalists over the 19 year period of their existence. The songs often referred to arguments between a man and a woman in a relationship. They’ve had ten top ten albums, six top ten singles and one number 1 (A Little Time) over the years. A staggering one in seven households own a copy of their first album of greatest hits, Carry on up the Charts (1994). Heaton and Hemingway are now considered to be thinking about pursuing solo careers.
