GAY DAD: IT AIN'T STRAIGHT

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On the Gay Dad page you will be able to add and update factual rmatn, post media and nnect this topic to other topics on the webse. Gay Dad. Br-pop phenoms Gay Dad were led by sger Cliff Jon, a oime mic journalist who first began nceivg the band durg the early 1990s.

Inial tails are sketchy and the nascent group's le-up was fluid, although dmmer Nicholas "Baz" Crowe was a mastay om the outset; a 1994 mo rerd wh legendary Rollg Ston producer Andrew Loog Oldham proved so disastro railed Gay Dad's momentum for over a year, however, and they did not make their live but until 1995.

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Early gigs were often a shambl, and by 1996 Jon -- who the terim had veloped a fascatn wh psychelia and glam-rock -- began to rethk the band's approach; a subsequent mo earned Gay Dad nsirable sir buzz, and the sprg of 1997 they signed to London Rerds. Their but sgle, 1998's "To Earth wh Love, " beme a UK smash, and the band -- addn to Jon and Baz now prisg guarist Charley Stone, bassist Nigel Hoyle and keyboardist Jam Riseboro -- emerged as media darlgs; the full-length Leisure Noise followed mid-1999, wh Stone leavg Gay Dad soon after. GAY DAD Songs statsUK No.

1s0UK Top 10s1UK Top 40s2UK Top 75s5Weeks the Top 10Weeks the Top 101Weeks the Top 404Weeks the Top 7510GAY DAD Albums statsUK No. GAY DADPeak: 22, Weeks: 314 Aug 1999OH JIMGAY DADPeak: 47, Weeks: 231 Mar 200122 Sep 2001 Official Albums Chart19 Jun 1999 Official Physil Sgl Chart Official Sttish Albums Chart Official Physil Albums Chart Official Inpennt Albums Chart Official Inpennt Sgl Chart. For a few weeks, Gay Dad, led by sger Cliff Jon, a former rock cric, were 1998's "next big thg" England.

THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS

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Per alcune settimane l 1998, i Gay Dad, panati dal ntante Cliff Jon, ex cri rock, furono la "next big thg" Inghilterra. NPR spoke to three men, sgle gay fathers, who chose to bee dads via surrogacy, after years of g to terms wh their inti, their fai, and the technologil advanc that have ma journeys like this possible.

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"At that pot 1994, you didn't see many gays [on] the mp. So I realized I was gay, but I was like sred, nfed. But the procs for sgle people, particularly relatively olr gay men, he says, was difficult.

Black, gay and heavyset the South, he was raised by a sgle mother a fay of sgle mothers. DUSTIN LING "Sometim the gay muny is seen as, oh, 's the funny guy who's always about fashn or always about travel, " says Dt Lg. "Fathers – gay fathers and mothers – e different and var forms, not jt that one-note inty.

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" Raised on the island natn of Aba to Asian parents, Lg says there weren't many exampl of gay men around.

THIS AMAZG GAY DAD ADOPTED FIVE FOSTER KIDS TO KEEP THE SIBLGS TOGETHER

Dpe the challeng of life as a sgle gay dad New York, Lg remas an optimist. Qutns have been raised regardg the wrg and productn creds of the Gay Dad sgle ‘To Earth Wh Love’ sce the words “rmatn whheld by label” has appeared all chart listgs where thorship is normally acknowledged.

Acrdg to a source close to the band, a problem has arisen bee the current sgle is ma up of var versns of the track rerd over the years sce Gay Dad formed 1993. “Gay Dad have rerd several versns and ed bs om var on to put together the current sgle, ” claims the source. Click here to read April Long‘s review of Gay Dad Manchter.

Not the nvoy of survivalist glam necsary to lure back the public the band annoyed after the disgntled and over-hyped Leisure Noise, Gay Dad's sophomore LP go for a lo-fi yet more sonilly plex approach and hs another brick wall of Queen-tailored rhetoric and pyrotechnic rock anthems.

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Durg the two-year wa between albums, Gay Dad had pared self down to a three-piece, and the rult is a posive, more direct, and ragg jangle of '70s-fixated Brish pop. " So well fact that you almost fet Gay Dad's unpersuasive threads of extremist pop-metal ("Dosr") that populate the rt of the album.

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