Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman at PWL Studio. Photo: Ken Sharp/Smash Hits magazine (1990)/File image
Reporters never forget their scoops. It’s that exclusive story we broke, that interview no one else got, which earned us a front-page byline and a yellowed newspaper clipping that we still cling to over the years, to remind us of how great it feels to beat the competition.
I was 22 when I met Pete Waterman at Legends, one of the biggest dance clubs in Kuala Lumpur in the 1990s. He was 45 and one of the greatest and most successful British songwriters and producers of the 1980s. It was also 1am in the morning!
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