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Marti Pellow
As front man of pop balladeers Wet Wet Wet, Marti Pellow scored four Number 1
albums and topped the UK singles chart for a record 15 weeks with their cover of
The Troggs hit Love Is All Around. Born to working class stock in Clydebank,
Scotland, Pellow was expected to become a builder like his father but, upon
discovering Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye, turned his hand to music and developed
into a smooth-voiced, hard-crooning, heart-throb. The band split in 1999 with
Pellow suffering drug problems but, while recovering in The Priory clinic,
London, he met Squeeze's Chris Difford, who...
