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* '''Briana Corrigan''' - additional vocals (1988-89), co-lead vocals (1989-92)

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* '''Briana Corrigan''' Briana Corrigan - additional vocals (1988-89), co-lead vocals (1989-92)



* Alison Wheeler - co-lead vocals (2003-2007)

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* Alison Wheeler - co-lead vocals (2003-2007)
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* '''Briana Corrigan''' - co-lead vocals (1988-92)

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* '''Briana Corrigan''' - additional vocals (1988-89), co-lead vocals (1988-92)(1989-92)
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* Briana Corrigan - co-lead vocals (1990-92), backing vocalist (1988-90)

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* Briana Corrigan '''Briana Corrigan''' - co-lead vocals (1990-92), backing vocalist (1988-90)(1988-92)
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** ''Miaow'': The original cover painted by German artist Michael Sowa depicted a lot of dogs seated in a music hall with a gramophone on the stage, while the alternate cover, also by Sowa, depicted four dogs in a boat at sea. This change was made because HMV felt the original cover poked fun of their mascot Nipper and had the band change the cover in order for the album become available at their stores.

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** ''Miaow'': The original cover painted by German artist Michael Sowa depicted a lot of dogs seated in a music hall with a gramophone on the stage, while the alternate cover, also by Sowa, depicted four dogs in a boat at sea. This change was made because HMV felt the original cover poked fun of their mascot Nipper and had the band change the cover in order for the album to become available at their stores.
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* AlternateAlbumCover: Two examples in fact.
** ''Welcome to the Beautiful South'': The original cover depicted two pictures taken by Czech photographer Jan Saudek, one depicting a woman with a gun in her mouth and another depicting a man smoking, while the alternate cover depicts two different pictures with one featuring a stuffed toy rabbit and another featuring a teddy bear. This change was made because Woolworths took offence at the original cover and request the band to change it in order to become available at their stores. Another alternate cover depicted only the smoking man for the Canadian release.
** ''Miaow'': The original cover painted by German artist Michael Sowa depicted a lot of dogs seated in a music hall with a gramophone on the stage, while the alternate cover, also by Sowa, depicted four dogs in a boat at sea. This change was made because HMV felt the original cover poked fun of their mascot Nipper and had the band change the cover in order for the album become available at their stores.
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* Briana Corrigan - co-lead vocals (1990-93), backing vocalist (1988-90)

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* Briana Corrigan - co-lead vocals (1990-93), (1990-92), backing vocalist (1988-90)
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* Brianna Corrigan - co-lead vocals (1990-93), backing vocalist (1988-90)

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* Brianna Briana Corrigan - co-lead vocals (1990-93), backing vocalist (1988-90)

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The band broke up amiably in 2007, wittily subversive to the end by citing the cause as "[[CreativeDifferences musical]] ''[[CreativeDifferences similarities]]''." Since then, members Hemingway, Wheeler and Dave Stead have toured with other musicians as The South and the New Beautiful South, Heaton has recorded several solo albums and also reconvened with Jacqui Abbott, leading to the pair recording and touring again as a duo.

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The band broke up amiably amicably in 2007, wittily subversive to the end by citing the cause as "[[CreativeDifferences musical]] ''[[CreativeDifferences similarities]]''." Since then, members Hemingway, Wheeler and Dave Stead have toured with other musicians as The South and the New Beautiful South, Heaton has recorded several solo albums and also reconvened with Jacqui Abbott, leading to the pair recording and touring again as a duo.
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!!Principal Members (Founding members in bold:)
* '''Paul Heaton''' - co-lead vocals (1988-2007)
* '''Dave Hemingway''' - co-lead vocals (1988-2007)
* '''Dave Rotheray''' - guitar (1988-2007)
* '''Sean Welch''' - bass (1988-2007)
* '''Dave Stead''' - drums (1988-2007)
* Brianna Corrigan - co-lead vocals (1990-93), backing vocalist (1988-90)
* Jacqui Abbott - co-lead vocals (1994-2000)
* Alison Wheeler - co-lead vocals (2003-2007)
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** Taken UpToEleven with "Hold Me Close (Underground)", where the singer promises that they'll carry on making love, [[TogetherInDeath even when they're dead]].

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** Taken UpToEleven up to eleven with "Hold Me Close (Underground)", where the singer promises that they'll carry on making love, [[TogetherInDeath even when they're dead]].
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* SexinessScore: "Perfect 10" is about a BigBeautifulWoman who's described as "She's a perfect 10/But she wears a 12".
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* InsideAWall: "Woman in the Wall" is about an alcoholic who kills his wife in a drunken rage and hides her body in the walls of their house, but is tormented by hearing her voice from the walls every night.
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The Beautiful South were a British SophistiPop band active from 1988 to 2007. Variously classed as JanglePop, Northern Soul[[note]]A flexible term first applied to American R&B records and the provincial British scene that sprang up around them.[[/note]] and Alternative Pop Rock, as well as having a mid-'90s renaissance/peak parallel with BritPop, the Beautiful South formed after the breakup of the Housemartins, an IndiePop group that had gained traction in the mid-1980s -- including an unlikely UK Number One single with an ACappella cover of the [[Music/TheIsleyBrothers Isley-Jasper-Isley]] song "Caravan Of Love". While the Housemartins' former bassist Norman Cook went in a house/funk direction that would eventually lead him to become Music/FatboySlim, leader Paul Heaton started a new band that would be more influenced by Burt Bacharach, soul and jazz. He pulled Housemartins drummer Dave Hemingway up front with him to serve as a secondary lead vocalist.

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The Beautiful South were a British SophistiPop band active from 1988 to 2007. Variously classed as JanglePop, Northern Soul[[note]]A flexible term first applied to American R&B records and the provincial British scene that sprang up around them.[[/note]] and Alternative Pop Rock, as well as having a mid-'90s renaissance/peak parallel with BritPop, the Beautiful South formed after the breakup of the Housemartins, an IndiePop group that had gained traction in the mid-1980s -- including an unlikely UK Number One single with an ACappella cover of the [[Music/TheIsleyBrothers Isley-Jasper-Isley]] song "Caravan Of Love". While the Housemartins' former bassist Norman Cook went in a house/funk direction that would eventually lead him to become Music/FatboySlim, leader Paul Heaton started a new band that would be more influenced by Burt Bacharach, Music/BurtBacharach, soul and jazz. He pulled Housemartins drummer Dave Hemingway up front with him to serve as a secondary lead vocalist.
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* UnusualEuphemism: "Sandra Bullocks", for "sweaty bollocks", in the [[Bowdlerization bowdlerised]] radio version of "Don't Marry Her".

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* UnusualEuphemism: "Sandra Bullocks", for "sweaty bollocks", in the [[Bowdlerization [[{{Bowdlerization}} bowdlerised]] radio version of "Don't Marry Her".
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* CrossReferencedTitles: "I Love You (But You're Boring)" and "I Hate You (But You're Interesting)".
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* SeductionLyric: "Don't Marry Her" is a completely open, NSFW offer of sex to someone who seems intent on taking a different, less appealing option.
-->''Think of you with pipe and slippers''\\
''Think of her in Bed''\\
''Laying there just watching telly''\\
''Then think of me instead...''

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