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| Name= A Pocketful of Dreams | Type= studio | Artist = Big Fun

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| Name= A Pocketful of Dreams | Type= studio | Artist = Big Fun

Big Fun

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology....
| Label = Jive Records

Jive

Jive may refer to:* JIVE, Joint Institute for VLBI in European astronomy* JIVE , Java Interactive Visualization Environment* Jive , a ballroom dance style from the 1940s...
| Producer = Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, were a United Kingdom songwriter and record producer trio who had great success during the mid-late 1980s and early 1990s with many of their productions....
(tracks: 1, 2, 3, 6, 10),Phil Harding

Phil Harding

Phil Harding may refer to:* Phil Harding , British field archaeologist and television personality on Time Team* Phil Harding , British music engineer, producer, and remixer best known for partnership with keyboardist Ian Curnow...
& Ian Curnow (tracks: 4, 7, 11), Pete Hammond (tracks: 5, 8, 9), | Last album = | This album = A Pocketful of Dreams
(1990) | Next album = }}

Big Fun were an English

England

Boy band

A boy band, written in some countries boys band or boy's band, is a type of pop music band featuring several young male singers. The members are generally expected to perform as dancers as well, often executing highly choreographed sequences to their own music....
(1989-1994), featuring Phil Creswick

Phil Creswick

Philip Creswick is a English people musician and songwriter, and a former member of the boy band, Big Fun .His songwriting credits include: Family Fantastic's album Nice and the soundtrack to Winning London ....
, Mark Gillespie

Mark Gillespie (Scottish singer)

Mark Gillespie is a singer, songwriter and a former band member of the boy band, Big Fun .Gillespie is now living in London with his partner, and is no longer connected to the music industry....
and Jason John (a.k.a Jason Herbert), and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman

Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
, A Pocketful of Dreams (released in 1990), reached the Top 10 in the UK Albums Chart

UK Albums Chart

The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website ; the full Top 200 is published exclusively in ChartsPlus....
; and contained the hit single

Hit single

A hit single is a Sound recording track or Single that has become very popular. Although it is sometimes used to describe any widely-played or big-selling song, the term "hit" is usually reserved for a single that has appeared in an official Record chart through repeated airplay and/or significant commercial sales....
s "Blame It on the Boogie" (a cover of The Jacksons' 1978 hit), "Can't Shake the Feeling", and "Handful of Promises".

Their final single

Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
"Stomp" was issued in 1994, under the name Big Fun II as one of the members had left the band and although this failed to obtain the commercial heights of their earlier work, it reached the dance chart

Record chart

Record chart are a method of ranking music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
in the United States

United States

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After disbanding, Gillespie and Creswick became painter and decorators and John returned to being a model

Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who poses or who is displayed for the purpose of art, fashion, or other product s and advertising....
booker.

Discography

Singles

1989 - "Living For Your Love";
1989 - "Blame It on the Boogie
Blame It on the Boogie

"Blame It on the Boogie" is a Disco song, originally released in 1978 both by German born singer-songwriter Mick Jackson as well as ? in its more successful version ? by the The Jacksons and was later also covered by numerous other musician....
" (a remake of The Jacksons hit) (#4 UK
UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
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1989 - "Can't Shake The Feeling" (#8 UK);
1990 - "Handful Of Promises" (#21 UK);
1990 - "You've Got A Friend" - performed by Big Fun and Sonia
Sonia Evans

Sonia Evans , better known as just Sonia, is an England popular music singer from Skelmersdale, West Lancashire, who was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s....
featuring Gary Barnacle (#14 UK);
1990 - "Hey There Lonely Girl" (#62 UK);
1994 - "Stomp" - as 'Big Fun II', without Jason Herbert
Jason Herbert

Jason Herbert , born on March 18 1967 in Coventry, England, is a former band member of the boy group Big Fun . He was also the manager of former Ginger Spice Geri Halliwell, at Global Talent , and is currently managing the solo career of ex-Blue singer Lee Ryan, at the Big Group....
(#12 on the US Hot Dance Club Play
Hot Dance Club Play

Billboard 's Hot Dance Club Play chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. nightclubs. It is compiled by Billboard exclusively from playlists submitted by nightclub disc jockeys who must apply and meet certain criteria to become "Billboard-reporting DJs."...
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Albums

1990 - A Pocketful Of Dreams (#7 UK)