She adds: "I don't think all relationships should be all the way through your life, but Martin and I do want our relationship still, so it just feels normal. Martin’s career continued after Spandau Ballet as he moved into acting, not least playing a lead role in EastEnders, as well as becoming a star of reality TV shows and latterly spinning the decks as a DJ.

It was around this time that Martin fell ill, with two brain tumours meaning he was unable to work for four years. On 20 January 2006, Kemp opened a new CT scanning suite at Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, West Midlands. We now have the time,” explains Martin, as he celebrates the release of his first album, In The Swing Of It, with wife Shirlie. It's easy to imagine this wholesome couple dressed in co-ordinated outfits while they perform duets such as Ain't That A Kick In The Head and How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning. The album features such classics as Ain’t That A Kick In The Head, Fly Me To The Moon and The Way You Look Tonight.

I know must of them as they are standards and popular tunes even though they are well before my time! We didn’t have a big wedding, but seeing all those people working on our project, I felt overwhelmed.

Shirlie Kemp (née Holliman; born 18 April 1962) is an English singer, who found fame in the 1980s with Wham! 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. He starred in a low-budget British film titled Back in Business which had a limited release in a few cinemas in February 2007 and one month later was released on DVD. The couple have toyed with songs of their own era, with Shirlie mentioning Last Christmas as a potential for a future album, adding: “ Gold works in this style.I never know what’s going to come in, whether it’s how to cook the perfect ruby or going to live on an island off Panama with Bear Grylls for a month. Not because their swing album In The Swing Of It isn’t any good – it’s actually one of the happiest LPs of the year.

Roman is doing really well hosting the breakfast show on Capital FM and Harley runs her own media company. A lot of people have made swing albums, but we’re not two singers singing in different studios around the world.Holliman intended to train as a horse riding instructor, [2] but after she developed hay fever at the age of 18 and with nothing else to do, her then boyfriend Andrew Ridgeley suggested she come and dance while he and his friend George Michael's band played a local gig. I bought is for myself and also my parents who where around when the songs where released - they love it!

Writing for Classic Pop since our first issue, John has been to Adam Ant’s house, sworn at by Bob Geldof, touched Johnny Marr’s favourite guitar, interviewed Richard Coles on his vicarage bed and serenaded with Last Christmas by Shirlie Kemp. Giving a nod to what their late friend George Michael would have thought about the album, Shirlie said: “He would love this, he would be annoyed he didn’t think of it.He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1999, when he was surprised by Michael Aspel while filming a scene for EastEnders.