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Boyzone may have to axe Gately footage from live show because of dispute with estate
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 23 September 2013
Boyzone have reportedly run into conflict with the Stephen Gately Estate over their upcoming 20th anniversary tour, which could result in plans to include footage of the late boy band singer in the new live shows being scuppered. The group may also not be able to include previously unreleased recordings of Gately singing on a new album.
Fellow Boyzoner Shane Lynch told The Sun: “The tour is 100% a celebration of our relationship with Stephen – it’s meant to be a party for us guys where we can remember him. We can never leave our Steo out. But unfortunately for us guys, you have Stephen’s estate in the background and it’s very difficult to take his image on board”.
He went on: “Even though he was part of Boyzone, I don’t know to what extent we can involve him in the show. The estate has their say and sometimes it’s a bit difficult to come to a compromise of what we can and can’t use. Some people have different ideas of what’s right and what’s wrong. I don’t want to pinpoint any individual – I just call it the estate”.
It is thought that Gately’s widower Andrew Cowles has given his permission for the use of footage of the singer at the upcoming Boyzone shows, and that it’s members of Gately’s family who are behind the block, possibly because they believe the Estate should benefit from the shows, and a financial deal has yet to be reached.
Gately, of course, died aged 33 in 2009 while in Majorca.
