Tuesday 27 April 2021

D:Ream

D:Ream are a house/pop duo Pete Cunnah and Al McKenzie met in London in 1991. They are best known for the hit "Things Can Only Get Better", which was at UK#1 for 4 weeks. They had 2 other top 10 hits with "U R The Best Thing" and "Shoot Me With Your Love". "U r the best thing" spent 1 week at #1 on US Dance Chart in July 1993. They achieved a total of 12 Top 40 hits.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Jan 1993   24	Things Can Only Get Better
Apr 1993   19	U R The Best Thing (remix)
Jul 1993   29	Unforgiven
Oct 1993   26	Star / I Like It
Jan 1994    1	Things Can Only Get Better (remix)
Mar 1994    4	U R The Best Thing (remix)
Jun 1994   18	Take Me Away
Sep 1994   25	Blame It On Me
Jul 1995    7	Shoot Me With Your Love
Sep 1995   20	Party Up The World
Nov 1995   40	The Power (Of All The Love In The World)
May 1997   19	Things Can Only Get Better (re-issue)

What happened next?
D:Ream only released two albums before breaking up. They did reunite in 2008 and their last activity was playing support for Wheatus at a festival in Suffolk in 2012. In 1997, "Things can only get better" was used as the theme tune for Tony Blair's Labour Party election campaign in the UK and represented their last chart hit (as a re-issue). Their keyboardist, Brian Cox went on to become a physics professor and science broadcaster often on the BBC.

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