Top Pattaya based entertainer launches autobiography

[ASEAN NOW News]

Multi hit songwriter/producer Barry Upton has just published his autobiography titled “Confessions of a Pop Tart.”

 

 

He was a frontline member of chart toppers ‘Brotherhood of Man’ in the early 80s and became a top U.K. nightclub DJ in the later 80s, while writing and producing for many top artists.

 

Brotherhood of Man

 

In the early 90s, none other than Simon Cowell spotted Barry’s talent and on signing him up, gave him the money to buy his own studio which immediately resulted in a top ten hit.

 

A few major chart hits followed but Barry turned his liking to country music and after many ‘line dancing’ successes, formed a well-known pop band called ‘STEPS’ and wrote/produced their most popular worldwide hit, 5,6,7,8.

 

Steps

 

More chart successes followed plus a song in the double Oscar winning film ‘Little Miss Sunshine’.

 

For the past 12 years he has lived in Pattaya, as a successful radio/TV presenter, producer and now author.

 

As a small boy in the early 60s, watching ‘Top Of The Pops’ on his family’s humble black & white TV, drumming along with pencils as drumsticks and chair cushions as drums, it was inconceivable to think Barry Upton would someday appear on that very TV program and that his life and work would cross paths with so many icons of the music and entertainment world.

 

It was then inconceivable that, one day, he would write and produce songs that would become international hits & putting together a famous successful world class pop act would, somehow, influence culture around the world, especially in the U.K., Japan and Australia.

 

He even went onto become the musical director for a major U.K. political party, commentate for SKY football and the BBC at Wimbledon’s tennis championships, plus be properly knighted Sir Barry Upton … yes … ‘SIR’ BARRY UPTON … an award from the Philippines.

 

Recently, he has been back in his studio, writing and producing albums, ‘Fab Baz Pop’ parts 1, 2 & 3,  plus his current release, ‘The Hormones Of Happiness’ which have yielded even more success including a few charting singles.

 

It was showbiz friend Shane Richie, who labeled him a kind of ‘musical prostitute’ or ‘pop tart’.  

 

In this book ‘Confessions of A Pop Tart’, you can find out why?

 

Read the book for free by clicking on this link…..pattayatrader.com

 

Optionally, Barry would be delighted if online donations to his supported charity were made, helping to feed poor local Thai families in Pattaya. 

 

For more info, E-mail [email protected]

 

[jayboy]

It's worth having a look at this 600+ page autobiographical masterpiece because quite unintentionally on the author's part, it's a work of comic genius.In short it's pure Alan Partridge.

[GStewart70]

No gigs in town until 2050 and the GoFundMe racket has been flogged raw.

Now it's an autobiography best used as andrex.

 

[hotandsticky]

3 minutes ago, GStewart70 said:

No gigs in town until 2050 and the GoFundMe racket has been flogged raw.

Now it's an autobiography best used as andrex.

 

 

 

Have you read it?

[jayboy]

58 minutes ago, jayboy said:

It's worth having a look at this 600+ page autobiographical masterpiece because quite unintentionally on the author's part, it's a work of comic genius.In short it's pure Alan Partridge.

'Lovely stuff!' Not my words, the words of Shakin' Stevens!

[GStewart70]

26 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

 

 

Have you read it?

Twice

[champers]

Who wrote the OP? Barry?

[GStewart70]

1 hour ago, GStewart70 said:

No gigs in town until 2050 and the GoFundMe racket has been flogged raw.

Now it's an autobiography best used as andrex.

 

My apologies, just seen the link to help feed the homeless.

Must admit did enjoy his Beatles double act tribute.

Best of luck with the good cause.

[Phoenix Rising]

How the "mighty" have fallen. Now he sings in dinky pubs around Pattaya when not competing with Colov who can get their mug printed most often in the Pattaya People "newspaper".

 

[hotandsticky]

16 hours ago, GStewart70 said:

Twice

Must have been good.

[KannikaP]

Just watched the sampler for his new album on You Tube. 

Nice to hear musical songs with words I can understand, some of them very witty and tongue-in-cheek.

Nice one Barry.

[Wardp]

Yes Barry is a legend in his own lunchtime. He reminds me of Donald trump in a lot of ways. I here they had to widen the doors in one gig to get his over inflated ego through them.i shall wait to pick up the book from a car boot sale to prop up my bed with..

[Scouse123]

19 hours ago, Phoenix Rising said:

How the "mighty" have fallen. Now he sings in dinky pubs around Pattaya when not competing with Colov who can get their mug printed most often in the Pattaya People "newspaper".

 

He will lose that fight with Pattaya's ultimate Tourist police commander!

[Scouse123]

2 minutes ago, Wardp said:

Yes Barry is a legend in his own lunchtime. He reminds me of Donald trump in a lot of ways. I here they had to widen the doors in one gig to get his over inflated ego through them.i shall wait to pick up the book from a car boot sale to prop up my bed with..

It's free online! lol

[LongTimeLurker]

Didn't he join BoM in their declining years?

 

Or maybe he was responsible for their decline!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Man

 

[Kerryd]

9 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said:

Didn't he join BoM in their declining years?

 

Or maybe he was responsible for their decline!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Man

 

Yeah, he was only with them for barely 1 1/2 years.

[Scouse123]

6 minutes ago, Kerryd said:

Yeah, he was only with them for barely 1 1/2 years.

Hahahaha,

 

Honestly? and he's still whacking it out on his CV in 2021.

 

It's hardly Queen or Status Quo or anybody that stood the test of time..........More of a Black Lace or The Smurfs type stardom!

 

Anyway, good luck to him with the book. I'll read it online when it's raining or I get TVF fatigue.

[LongTimeLurker]

25 minutes ago, Kerryd said:

Yeah, he was only with them for barely 1 1/2 years.

Truly a legend in his own lunchtime!

[Jim1000]

Surely one of these larger than life characters who make life in easy town ...........................

[sapson]

Is he the guy that used to ride around Pattaya wearing a glitter suit on a bicycle covered in flags and bells and lights ..... a low profile unassuming kind of man.

[RAZZELL]

9 minutes ago, sapson said:

Is he the guy that used to ride around Pattaya wearing a glitter suit on a bicycle covered in flags and bells and lights ..... a low profile unassuming kind of man.

Nope...that was "Glitterman".

 

Now back in the UK, saw him a few years ago in the same get-up riding around Wimbledon Village!

 

RAZZ

[jacko45k]

10 hours ago, sapson said:

Is he the guy that used to ride around Pattaya wearing a glitter suit on a bicycle covered in flags and bells and lights ..... a low profile unassuming kind of man.

No! Glitterman went home a long time ago.