Pete on the cover of his autobiography I Wish I Was Me

Peter Alan Waterman, OBE (born in Coventry on January 15, 1947) is an English record producer, songwriter, radio and club DJ, television presenter, president of Coventry Bears rugby league club and a keen railway enthusiast. He is the owner of significant collections of both historic and commercial railway locomotives and rolling stock, a passion fueled by his first job. Waterman had left school illiterate, not learning to read until the age of thirty eight.^[1] Following his railway job as a fireman on locomotives Waterman became a gravedigger and then an apprentice at General Electric Company, becoming a trade union official. ^{[citation needed]} Image File history File links Pete_waterman_i_wish_i_was_me. ... Image File history File links Pete_waterman_i_wish_i_was_me. ... The Precinct in Coventry city centre. ... January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes . ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... A disc jockey scratching a record. ... A television presenter is a British term for a person who introduces or hosts television programmes. ... Coventry Bears are a rugby league club, formed in 1995. ... A locomotive (from Latin loco motivus) is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. ... Literacy is the ability to use text to communicate across space and time. ... The General Electric Company plc (GEC) is a British company that was renamed Marconi plc on November 30, 1999 after its defence unit Marconi Electronic Systems was divested and sold to British Aerospace. ... A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers...

Inspired by The Beatles, Waterman became a DJ. He first hit the charts singing under the name 14-18 with a single inspired by World War I - "Good-Bye-Ee". In the 1980s he was a member of the highly successful music trio Stock Aitken Waterman before forming his own company, PWL (Pete Waterman Limited). To date he has scored a total of twenty two UK number one singles with his various acts and he claims upwards of 500 million sales world-wide (inclusive of singles, albums, compilation inclusions, downloads, etc). Pete has also appeared in the Steps video "Tragedy". The Beatles, an English musical group from Liverpool, are one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful popular music artists in history. ... Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Italy Russia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul von Hindenburg... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... (From left to right) Pete Waterman, Matt Aitken and Mike Stock in 1987. ... PWL (Pete Waterman Ltd) is the production company and one-time record label owned by pop mogul Pete Waterman. ... STEPS were a highly successful British pop group who achieved a series of top hit singles between 1997 and 2001. ... The Bee Gees Tragedy is a song originally by the Bee Gees, included on their 1979 album Spirits Having Flown. ...

In 1988 he revived the name of the London and North Western Railway Company for his rail vehicle maintenance business, based at Crewe, which is now the largest privately owned rail maintenance business in the country. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) was formed in 1846 by the merger of three railway companies - the Grand Junction Railway, London and Birmingham and Manchester and Birmingham. ... Map sources for Crewe at grid reference SJ705557 Crewe is a town in south Cheshire, in the north west of England. ...

In addition to his passion for music and the railway, Waterman is also a huge supporter of Walsall FC. However, he has ruled out any move towards buying the football club. ^{[citation needed]} Walsall Football Club are a professional football club based in Walsall in the West Midlands, their stadium is called the Bescot Stadium and they are in the English Coca-Cola Football League One. ...

He co-presented The Hitman and Her with Michaela Strachan. He also presented a show on Radio City. The Hitman and Her was a television programme hosted by Pete Waterman and Michaela Strachan from August 1988 until 1992, produced by Granada Television. ... Michaela Strachan Michaela Strachan (born in Essex, April 7, 1966) is a British television presenter. ... Radio City 96. ...

In more recent years, Waterman managed the boy band One True Voice, who were formed as the result of the UK television programme Popstars: The Rivals. Waterman said to rival Louis Walsh that if One True Voice failed to reach the 2002 Christmas number one in the UK, he would commit suicide. ^{[citation needed]} One True Voice were beaten to the number one spot by Girls Aloud. This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ... One True Voice were a British boyband created by the ITV television series Popstars: The Rivals, which also produced girl group Girls Aloud. ... Countries which had a version of Popstars Popstars is an international reality television program and a precursor to the Idol series. ... Louis Walsh Louis Walsh (born Kiltimagh County Mayo, Ireland, August 5, 1952) is a manager in the music industry. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Each year, record companies compete for the Christmas number one single spot on the British charts. ... Girls Aloud are a pop group from the United Kingdom. ...

In the New Year's Honours List published 31 December 2004 he was given an OBE for his services to music. Just three days later his son Paul died at the age of thirty three, Waterman's website announcing that he had been in hospital since June with a "serious illness". Waterman's other son, Pete Junior, had been in a near-death go-karting accident in 1999, seeing him left badly burnt and in a coma. ^{[citation needed]} December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Old Farts by the Sometimes-United Nations. ...

Bibliography

• I Wish I Was Me: The Autobiography; Virgin Books ISBN 1-85227-900-1

References

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External links

• Pete Waterman Limited
• Stock Aitken Waterman fan site
• Waterman's model railway manufacturing company website
• "Pete Waterman: Lucky, lucky, lucky" at BBC news