East 17: It's Alright

Some songs were born cheesy, but it doesn’t stop them from becoming a big hit.

English boy bandits East 17 took their name from the U2 track Miss Sarajevo, that or it’s one of those silly UK postcodes. Wiki says they toyed with the idea of shortening it to E17 but decided not to, as the party drug ecstasy was prevalent at the time.

‘It’s Alright’ is a ballad-cum-dance track from the album Walthamstow. It climbed to #3 on the UK charts back in 1993. The following year we colonials did what we always do, and propelled England’s ‘nearly there’ to #1.