He’s been a band frontman, a solo artist and a musical theatre star in productions including Chicago, Chess and The Witches of Eastwick.<\/p>\n
Pellow now performs without the other members of Wet Wet Wet, having toured off and on with them over the years, but splitting permanently in 2017.<\/p>\n
The band formed in1982, comprising Clydebank High School pals Tommy Cunningham, Neil Mitchell and Graeme Clark.<\/p>\n
“I think that youth and arrogance is a heady mixture,” Pellow said.<\/p>\n
“If you have a dream or a vision and you get one other person that’s subscribed to it… two, it’s a hard one, three and four and five – then it’s a power of the collective and it starts to work.<\/p>\n
“And I think that’s where it is, self-belief and hopefully a plan and having a God-given talent that you can nurture.”<\/p>\n
After every achievement, the group would set a new dream and push the limits.<\/p>\n
“When I was sitting on the banks of the river, I was watching those ships sail out the River Clyde.<\/p>\n
“I’d look at the back of those ships and it would say, Sao Paolo, or Argentina, or Brazil and I think, I wonder if I’ll ever get there.<\/p>\n
“Well, I didn’t get there by building ships. I got there by building songs, and that’s what took me round the world.”<\/p>\n
His parents were supportive, but could only help him up to a point.<\/p>\n
He said: “My dad was scared because he didn’t know a man who could get me on Top of the Pops.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He’s been a band frontman, a solo artist and a musical theatre star in productions including Chicago, Chess…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-208010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}