Huge 80s boyband star now mastermind behind some of today's biggest hits

Daily Record

27-06-2025

Some of Adele, Cline Dion and P!nk's biggest hits are down to this one 80's boy band pop star after his career take a drastic turn three decades ago
Once a teen heartthrob in one of the original British boy bands, Eg White from Brother Beyond has quietly become one of the masterminds behind some of the biggest pop hits of recent times.
While his face no longer be front and centre some of the biggest pop hits his lyrics are still woven into songs from the links of Adele, Celine Dion and James Blunt.
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Winding the clock back more than three decades ago to the late 1980s, Brother Beyond released classic catchy pop songs with plenty of quintessentially 80s synth.
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The band was first created in 1985 and was quick to release a selection of singles including some of their classic songs, Should Have Lied, How Many Times, Chain-Gang Smile and Can You Keep a Secret?.
Although some of their first songs managed to hit the charts, it wasn't quite the instant success they were looking for. However their first album Get Even, proved to be the hit they were looking for, with The Harder I Try reaching number two in the charts and He Ain't No Competition reaching number six.
However, after a more muted response to their second album, Trust, the band lost a lot of their momentum and took a hiatus away from the business before some live shows in the early 2000s.
Despite the rollercoaster success of Brother Beyond, the band's bassist Eg White decided to embark on a very different musical journey.
Eg was the creator of many of the original band's tunes so it seemed only natural to continue his journey into songwriting, penning various songs for some big-name artists.
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One of his earliest and most impactful hits came in 2003 when he teamed up with the newly crowned inaugural Pop Idol winner Will Young for the song "Leave Right Now". The song became a smash hit, soaring to number one and is still to this day Young's most streamed song.
But the singer wasn't the only one to gain recognition from the song, as Eg scooped an Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for his work on the song.
In 2008 he teamed up with Adele to create three songs on her first album 19, including one one of her first big hits Chasing Pavements. The two would also pair up two years later to create Take It All which appeared on her follow-up album 21.
A year later he would also create his own record label, Spilt Milk Records where he would work as both a writer and producer.
Over the coming decades, he would cement his place as one of the most in-demand songwriters in the UK picking up credits on several songs by James Blunt, Florence and The Machine, P!nk, Celine Dion and many more.