In The Swing Of It

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Instead, when they coo covers of The Way You Look Tonight and Fly Me To The Moon at each other, you can tell they’re still adorably in love after 31 years of marriage. This is just my life, and this is what I want and I'm not doing it as a competition to other people.

What we have as a couple is rare,” acknowledges Shirlie, sat with Martin in a meeting room at their record company Sony. Lee, was paid on a per performance basis as a backing singer, and continued to live with her parents. Asked why that is, she explains that music stardom and all that came with it was not part of her plan.He also appeared in several Hollywood films, including Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992) and Embrace of the Vampire (1994). Its a upbeat album full of timeless beautiful songs like "fly me to moon" , "how do you like your eggs in the morning?

The record came about after Martin was demoing a solo album with Brian Rawling, the veteran producer of Cher’s Believe and David Bowie’s Heathen as well as Girls Aloud, Tina Turner and One Direction. But it may come as a surprise to some that the couple, who have two children together, have never recorded music together over the past three-and-a-bit decades – until now. Entertainment Martin and Shirlie Kemp on their first mutual musical project In The Swing Of It After more than 30 years of marriage, ex-EastEnders and Spandau Ballet star Martin Kemp and former Wham!But earlier this year an opportunity came up to record a swing album with Martin, despite only ever having sung Islands In The Stream together at Christmas karaoke.

In October 2020, Holliman with her husband published Shirlie and Martin Kemp: It's a Love Story, an autobiography-cum- relationship advice book. Well the kids are all grown up now and I’m so pleased that we have waited and are able to do it now. I'd never done something so quickly that felt so right, and I realised how happy I felt singing again. Yet despite being a couple for almost four decades, the pair have never worked on music together – until now.

They make each other laugh, there is no hint of ego and talking to them is easy, fascinating and heart-warming.

Individually Martin and Shirlie Kemp were part of two of the biggest bands of the 1980s but until now have never worked on music together. In October 2020, Kemp with his wife Shirley published Shirlie and Martin Kemp: It's a Love Story, an autobiography-cum- relationship advice book. The success of Martin Kemp and Shirlie Holliman's marriage is something that brings joy to 1980s pop fans. Martin and Shirlie's son Roman is currently in the jungle entertaining audiences in ITV's 'I'm a Celebrity.

From February to April 2016, Kemp appeared as The Childcatcher in the UK and Ireland tour of the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, alongside Jason Manford, Phil Jupitus and Michelle Collins. His character was involved in some of the soap's highest-rated storylines, such as the Saskia Duncan murder and " Who Shot Phil? It’s no coincidence that one of the highlights of In The Swing Of It is Martin and Shirlie’s take on Nice Work If You Can Get It.