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Girls Aloud Are A Critically Acclaimed British-Irish Girl Group Comprising Nicola Roberts Nadine Coyle Cheryl Kimberley Walsh And Sarah Harding. The Band Was Formed On The Reality TV Show Popstars The Rivals In Which A Girl Band Was Pitted Against A Boy Band In The Race For The UK Christmas Number One Single In 2002. Girls Aloud Came Out On Top With Their Debut Single Sound Of The Underground Hitting Number One And Earning Them A Place In The Guinness Book Of World Records As The First Girl Band In British History To Debut At Number One. As Well As The Fastest A Band Has Gone From Being Formed To Getting A Number One And The First Band To Get A Christmas Number One With Their Debut Single. The Band Has Released Five Studio Albums - Sound Of The Underground 2003 What Will The Neighbours Say? 2004 Chemistry 2005 Tangled Up 2007 And Out Of Control 2008 Plus A Greatest Hits Compilation The Sound Of Girls Aloud 2006 . Major Singles Include Sound Of The Underground Love Machine Biology Something Kinda Ooooh Call The Shots And The Promise. The Girls Have A Record 20 Consecutive Top 10 Singles Under Their Collective Belt Now Including 4 Number Ones. Their Lowest Charting Top Ten Single The Loving Kind Reached Number 10. However The Girls 21st Single Untouchable Ended Their Top Ten Streak Peaking At 11 In May. Despite This Up To Week Ending 21st June It Has Outsold Top Ten Singles In Order Of Release And Highest Peak In The UK Chart Wake Me Up No.4 Long Hot Summer No.7 See The Day No.9 Whole Lotta History No.6 And I Think We're Alone Now No.4 . The Girls Have Embarked On Five Major UK Tours To Date Traditionally Starting In April Or May Of Each Year Since 2005. The 2006 2007 2008 And 2009 Shows Have All Been Sold-Out Arena Tours Earning The Girls A Reputation As Putting On An Explosive Live Show. The Most Recent Tour Out Of Control Tour 2009 Is The Largest Tour For The Girls To Date Selling Out Venues Across The UK. They Are Also Set To Be The Support For Coldplay At A Number Of Their Tour Dates In September 2009 Including Wembley Stadium Where The Girls Are Expected To Perform A 75 Minute Set. Girls Aloud Are Unusual In That Their Management Has Never Made A Major Push For Them To Be Successful Other Than Within The UK Market And Despite Their Huge Success In London United Kingdom They Are Relatively Unknown Elsewhere In The World. A Shame Perhaps As Pitchfork Media Called Them One Of The Two Best Girl Groups Of The 21st Century Along With Sugababes. Girls Aloud Performed A Cover Of Aerosmith And Run DMC's 'Walk This Way' For Children In Need With Sugababes. Girls Aloud Released Their Fifth Studio Album Out Of Control On November 3rd 2008. The Album Debuted At #1 On The UK Albums Chart Selling Over 85 000 Copies. The Lead Single The 60s Flavoured The Promise Entered The UK Singles Chart At #1 Selling More Than 70 000 Copies On Its First Week Of Release. The Album Coincides With Band Member Cheryl's Appearance As A Judge On UK TV Show The X Factor Where She Will Manage The Three Final Girls In An Attempt To Secure One Of Them A Million Pound Recording Contract Over The Other Finalists. Cheryl Is A Judge Alongside Simon Cowell Louis Walsh And Dannii Minogue. The Girls Also Released Their Autobiography Dreams That Glitter In October 2008. After A Three Year Hiatus Girls Aloud Returned In October 2012 For Their 10th Anniversary. A Countdown On Their Website And Social Media Accounts Kicked Off On 9th October With An Announcement Expected On Friday 19th October. Their 22nd Single 'Something New ' Leaked Online On 15th October Following The Release A Teaser Video And Received High Praise From Fans. The Track Premiered On Capital FM The Following Day. In March 20th 2013 After The Last Show Of The Tour Of The Album Ten The Group Announced Via Twitter That They Disbanded.

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"The Promise" Is A Song Performed By British All-Female Pop Group Girls Aloud Written And Produced By Brian Higgins And His Production Team Xenomania. Released As The First Single From The Group's Fifth Studio Album Out Of Control On 19 September 2008 2 3 The Single Became Their Fourth Number One On The UK Singles Chart. "The Promise" Won Best British Single At The 2009 BRIT Awards Girls Aloud's First Win At The Prestigious Ceremony. Background And Release
The Backing Track For The Song Was Composed By Two Australian Musicians Jason Resch And Kieran Jones Who Would Later Play The Song For Higgins. 4 Higgins And Miranda Cooper Afraid They'd "ruin The Moment" Waited Weeks To Write The Song's Lyrics They Wrote The Song In Seven Minutes. 4 As Soon As Girls Aloud Heard The Song They Decided It Should Be The First Single From Out Of Control. 4 The Day Before The Song Was Due To Be Delivered To Fascination Records The Entire Backing Track Was Ditched And Replayed. 4 "The Promise" Premièred On Switch On BBC Radio 1 On 14 September 2008 5 And Has Been Described By The Band's Website As A "stormer Of A Track". 2 Originally Scheduled For Release On 27 October 2008 2 The Release Was Inexplicably Brought Forward A Week. 3 Girls Aloud Performed "The Promise" On Jo Whiley's Live Lounge As Well As A Cover Of Timbaland And OneRepublic's "Apologize". 6 Nadine Coyle Was Not Present As She Was Ill With Shingles. 7 Sarah Harding Had Originally Wanted To Perform "Sex On Fire" By Kings Of Leon. 8 "The Promise" Was Also Remixed By Dave Audé And Jason Nevins. The Album Version Of "The Promise" Is Around Fifteen Seconds Longer. 1 The Song Was Released In Germany On 16 January 2009 As A Digital Download. 9 Edit Critical Reception
The Song Is Notable For Its 1960s Influence. 10 "The Promise" Has Been Called "a 60s-Influenced Pop Gem Given A Contemporary Girls Aloud Twist" 11 And "more Interesting Than The Average Retro-Pop Nugget." 12 Digital Spy Referred To The Single As "a Cute Wistful Pop Song" With "some Nice Spectorish Touches In The Production And A Lovely Classic-Sounding Melody" That "grows More Persuasive With Every Listen." 10 12 It Was Criticised For Being "a Shameless Attempt At Trying To Cash In On The Duffy And Winehouse Favoured 60's Femme Pop." 13 On The Other Hand Slant Magazine Said That While It "suggests The Girls Have ... Shallowly Jumped Aboard The Retro-Soul Bandwagon Led By Duffy And Amy Winehouse ... The Song's Go-For-Broke Very Modern Re-Imagining Of Spector's Wall Of Sound Proves To Be More Authentic And Entertaining Than Most Other Recent Attempts". 14 Peter Robinson Stated In The Liner Notes For An Official Girls Aloud Singles Boxset That The Song "also Hinted At A Mellower Side Of 70's New York Disco As If It Were Some Sort Of Long Soundtrack From A Deleted Scene In Saturday Night Fever. 4 The Guardian However Felt The Song Was "disappointing" Because "Girls Aloud's Producers Have Always Been Capable Of Making Exciting And Innovative Pop Music". 15 It Has Also Received Comparisons To Girls Aloud's Previous Single "Can't Speak French". 10 Terry Wogan Has Also Claimed That The Tune Features The Melody From The Theme Song Of Blankety Blank A British TV Quiz Show From The 1980s.

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Girls Aloud Are A Critically Acclaimed British-Irish Girl Group Comprising Nicola Roberts Nadine Coyle Cheryl Kimberley Walsh And Sarah Harding. The Band Was Formed On The Reality TV Show Popstars The Rivals In Which A Girl Band Was Pitted Against A Boy Band In The Race For The UK Christmas Number One Single In 2002. Girls Aloud Came Out On Top With Their Debut Single Sound Of The Underground Hitting Number One And Earning Them A Place In The Guinness Book Of World Records As The First Girl Band In British History To Debut At Number One. As Well As The Fastest A Band Has Gone From Being Formed To Getting A Number One And The First Band To Get A Christmas Number One With Their Debut Single. The Band Has Released Five Studio Albums - Sound Of The Underground 2003 What Will The Neighbours Say? 2004 Chemistry 2005 Tangled Up 2007 And Out Of Control 2008 Plus A Greatest Hits Compilation The Sound Of Girls Aloud 2006 . Major Singles Include Sound Of The Underground Love Machine Biology Something Kinda Ooooh Call The Shots And The Promise. The Girls Have A Record 20 Consecutive Top 10 Singles Under Their Collective Belt Now Including 4 Number Ones. Their Lowest Charting Top Ten Single The Loving Kind Reached Number 10. However The Girls 21st Single Untouchable Ended Their Top Ten Streak Peaking At 11 In May. Despite This Up To Week Ending 21st June It Has Outsold Top Ten Singles In Order Of Release And Highest Peak In The UK Chart Wake Me Up No.4 Long Hot Summer No.7 See The Day No.9 Whole Lotta History No.6 And I Think We're Alone Now No.4 . The Girls Have Embarked On Five Major UK Tours To Date Traditionally Starting In April Or May Of Each Year Since 2005. The 2006 2007 2008 And 2009 Shows Have All Been Sold-Out Arena Tours Earning The Girls A Reputation As Putting On An Explosive Live Show. The Most Recent Tour Out Of Control Tour 2009 Is The Largest Tour For The Girls To Date Selling Out Venues Across The UK. They Are Also Set To Be The Support For Coldplay At A Number Of Their Tour Dates In September 2009 Including Wembley Stadium Where The Girls Are Expected To Perform A 75 Minute Set. Girls Aloud Are Unusual In That Their Management Has Never Made A Major Push For Them To Be Successful Other Than Within The UK Market And Despite Their Huge Success In London United Kingdom They Are Relatively Unknown Elsewhere In The World. A Shame Perhaps As Pitchfork Media Called Them One Of The Two Best Girl Groups Of The 21st Century Along With Sugababes. Girls Aloud Performed A Cover Of Aerosmith And Run DMC's 'Walk This Way' For Children In Need With Sugababes. Girls Aloud Released Their Fifth Studio Album Out Of Control On November 3rd 2008. The Album Debuted At #1 On The UK Albums Chart Selling Over 85 000 Copies. The Lead Single The 60s Flavoured The Promise Entered The UK Singles Chart At #1 Selling More Than 70 000 Copies On Its First Week Of Release. The Album Coincides With Band Member Cheryl's Appearance As A Judge On UK TV Show The X Factor Where She Will Manage The Three Final Girls In An Attempt To Secure One Of Them A Million Pound Recording Contract Over The Other Finalists. Cheryl Is A Judge Alongside Simon Cowell Louis Walsh And Dannii Minogue. The Girls Also Released Their Autobiography Dreams That Glitter In October 2008. After A Three Year Hiatus Girls Aloud Returned In October 2012 For Their 10th Anniversary. A Countdown On Their Website And Social Media Accounts Kicked Off On 9th October With An Announcement Expected On Friday 19th October. Their 22nd Single 'Something New ' Leaked Online On 15th October Following The Release A Teaser Video And Received High Praise From Fans. The Track Premiered On Capital FM The Following Day. In March 20th 2013 After The Last Show Of The Tour Of The Album Ten The Group Announced Via Twitter That They Disbanded. read less

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"The Promise" is a song performed by British all-female pop group Girls Aloud, written and produced by Brian Higgins and his production team Xenomania. Released as the first single from the group's fifth studio album Out of Control on 19 September 2008,[2][3] the single became their fourth number one on the UK Singles Chart. "The Promise" won Best British Single at the 2009 BRIT Awards, Girls Aloud's first win at the prestigious ceremony. Background and release The backing track for the song was composed by two Australian musicians, Jason Resch and Kieran Jones, who would later play the song for Higgins.[4] Higgins and Miranda Cooper, afraid they'd "ruin the moment", waited weeks to write the song's lyrics; they wrote the song in seven minutes.[4] As soon as Girls Aloud heard the song, they decided it should be the first single from Out of Control.[4] The day before the song was due to be delivered to Fascination Records, the entire backing track was ditched and replayed.[4] "The Promise" premièred on Switch on BBC Radio 1 on 14 September 2008,[5] and has been described by the band's website as a "stormer of a track".[2] Originally scheduled for release on 27 October 2008,[2] the release was inexplicably brought forward a week.[3] Girls Aloud performed "The Promise" on Jo Whiley's Live Lounge, as well as a cover of Timbaland and OneRepublic's "Apologize".[6] Nadine Coyle was not present, as she was ill with shingles.[7] Sarah Harding had originally wanted to perform "Sex on Fire" by Kings of Leon.[8] "The Promise" was also remixed by Dave Audé and Jason Nevins. The album version of "The Promise" is around fifteen seconds longer.[1] The song was released in Germany on 16 January 2009 as a digital download.[9] [edit] Critical reception The song is notable for its 1960s influence.[10] "The Promise" has been called "a 60s-influenced pop gem given a contemporary Girls Aloud twist",[11] and "more interesting than the average retro-pop nugget."[12] Digital Spy referred to the single as "a cute, wistful pop song" with "some nice Spectorish touches in the production and a lovely, classic-sounding melody" that "grows more persuasive with every listen."[10][12] It was criticised for being "a shameless attempt at trying to cash in on the Duffy and Winehouse favoured 60's femme pop."[13] On the other hand, Slant Magazine said that while it "suggests the girls have [...] shallowly jumped aboard the retro-soul bandwagon led by Duffy and Amy Winehouse, [...] the song's go-for-broke, very modern re-imagining of Spector's Wall of Sound proves to be more authentic and entertaining than most other recent attempts".[14] Peter Robinson stated in the liner notes for an official Girls Aloud singles boxset that the song "also hinted at a mellower side of 70's New York disco, as if it were some sort of long soundtrack from a deleted scene in Saturday Night Fever.[4] The Guardian, however, felt the song was "disappointing" because "Girls Aloud's producers have always been capable of making exciting and innovative pop music".[15] It has also received comparisons to Girls Aloud's previous single, "Can't Speak French".[10] Terry Wogan has also claimed that the tune features the melody from the theme song of Blankety Blank, a British TV quiz show from the 1980s. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.