- I’d spent more time with her than you.
- In her jet.
- She's a great girl. - Still hurts.
- Don't be bitter just be better.
- Hi, we're Steps and we're revisiting
the looks that defined our career.
- Ah, do you know,
that makes me really happy that photo.
- Why? Because you like PVC?
- Well, yes, that's one reason.
But I just thought that was such,
I think that's one of our iconic looks
with the red amazing, what would you say, coats?
Jackets?
- Yeah, I mean, it's- - And the horns.
And obviously now whenever we do tours or shows,
we see lots of people wearing all the horns
the red horns in the audience, don't we.
- Ah, 'Tragedy'.
I don't know whose idea it was
for us to do a wedding video to ‘Tragedy’.
- I hated my dress.
- Did you? - I was so disappointed, yeah.
- I wanted the meringue but Lisa got the meringue.
- It was like.
It's just really unflattering.
I felt like I looked like a pixie.
- I was going through
my dreadlock stage, which was quite interesting.
And I had the most amazing little crown on though.
- Oh, you did.
Tiny little crown with crystals coming down.
And I've had so many messages
on social media saying, where was it from?
And I still have no idea.
- OK,
so I know I just used iconic,
but I think this is really iconic.
- Blue dadda-deeba.
- Do you know what, honestly, I think this
when you look at this video, 'Deeper Shade of Blue',
in my humble opinion, I still think it stands up
to the test of time today.
I think it's, you know, it's really iconic.
- I think the make-up job on Lisa is incredible.
And why is that? - Because I'm blue?
- Because who did the make-up job?
- Well, you helped me get it off.
I literally had to to have about four showers after
we shot the video and H was helping me shower it off.
I had blue coming in my ears just blue water
rinsing off for days.
- I remember so that eye make-up,
I reacted to the make-up and when they-
- Yes.
- I had burnt the whole top half of my face.
- You had actually.
Yeah, that's really bad. - Yeah, it was all burnt.
Memories, happy memories.
- Great memories.
- 'Deeper Shade of Blue'
I reckon that was probably one of the most
uncomfortable outfits we've ever had.
- Ever.
- My head thing was
underneath that big ponytail there was a block of wood
that was about that big sat on the top of my head
to make my ponytail come out over my head.
- And you had needle heels. Yeah, needles weren't they?
- You had to be carried to your set.
-My heels were nails
they wanted me to dance in them to start off
with but ended up I didn't-,
- No, you can't dance in them.
- And the back of it was done up with,
I was sealed into it.
You know, the things we put clothes
tags on clothes with?
They used those plastic things and did me up.
So once I was in it and then I had a corset over the top.
Once I was in it that was it all day.
- So you had a lot going on.
I didn't really have much going on at all.
- You were wearing nothing. And people like that.
- Jeans and a stripe across my body and blue head
for some strange reason, I had a blue head.
- It was a 'Deeper Shade of Blue'.
- And contacts in, which I hate,
hate wearing contacts. - We all had those.
- Couldn't see a thing. - You looked great though.
- Couldn't see a thing though.
- My interesting quirk on this one was that
I had a blue wig on
and then the CGI made my hair into sort of Medusa.
- Yes, yeah, of course.
- But actually,
I don't think I was really just had a
blue wig on, and that was not my favourite.
- Oh, bless her. - Britney.
- So we had been on tour with Britney.
We'd spent
lovely amounts of time with her and-
- You had.
- I'd spent more time than you.
She's a great girl.
- Still hurts.
Don’t be bitter just be better.
- I like that.
- She came
and did the
Smash Hits Poll Winner's Party
and that year
we were presenting the whole show
and I think she won Best Female and I got to present.
And I think I taught her 'Tragedy'.
Because we'd done 'Tragedy' anyway,
we'd taught her that before,
but then we reminded her live on TV.
- Oh, Prince Charles.
- So that was Party In The Park
and yes, we performed
and Prince Charles was there, wasn't he?
And I remember meeting him,
and I think it was Lisa, actually, that decided
to pluck up the courage to ask him
to do the 'Tragedy' move.
Didn't he say as well, "It's not rude, is it?"
- Oh, yeah, yeah.
- We mix with
lots of queens, just not lots of royalty.
- Ah, Michelle Visage, she's great.
- She's absolutely amazing.
- What what you see is what you get with her, isn’t it?
Absolutely. There’s no, I want to say there's no flies on her.
_ There’s no facade or anything.
It's just she is there
and whatever she thinks she will say,
she doesn't really care
if she's going to offend anybody or not.
She very professional. She's great.
Works all the way through.
- Michelle Visage was Michelle from Steps
for a short period of time when we were doing
‘Heartbreak in This City’.
And it was just so much fun and
Really breathes a nice,
fresh sort of feeling to the song.
And it's the introduction check
track for our part two of ‘What The Future Holds’ album.
And yeah just so much fun working with her.
It's a shame Lisa wasn't there.
I have to say, it's a shame Lisa wasn't there
and she didn’t meet her,
but obviously Michelle stepped in
and did the job, so it was good round.
- Where am I?
- I've just
so I sent Michelle a message just now and said,
“We wish you were here.”
And she's just said, “Where is Michelle from Steps?”
- Do you know what? I have to say,
you know, it's the first video.
that I wasn't present for in the same country
- It was great.
- He loved it for that reason.
But no, you know what, Michelle is so sweet.
Michelle actually sent me a private DM
and she said to me,
you know, I’m really sorry that you can't be here on the day.
You know, we're all thinking of you.
And I just thought it was really sweet
that she did that.
I really appreciated it.
She is the most incredible person.
She is such an activist
and such a beautiful human being.
It's just what you see is absolutely what you get.
I felt like it was such an honour and a privilege
to work with her.
And now even more so, call her a friend.
It's just incredible.
Thanks for going down memory lane with uss.
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