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Fact #166614

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Short story:

Successful UK pop duo Paul And Barry Ryan call it a day, because Paul Ryan cannot cope with the pressures of success. Barry Ryan will continue as a solo artist.

Full article:

Barry Ryan : Paul sort of downed tools and said, 'That’s it, sod it, I’ve had enough'. He hated being on stage. He really didn’t like it at all and I think that’s when he really got the bug for the idea of becoming a songwriter. He went into the studio with Graham Nash – I remember he did a song called Fifi The Flea, a really nice track. It was a little before that but it got him in the mood to really write songs. He wanted to be in the background.

I think the first song Paul wrote was a song called The Show Is Over, We Are Going Home which is a really fantastically Beatley, sort of Sergeant Pepper song. It’s wonderful. He wrote that before Eloise. Eloise was the second song he wrote.
(Source : http://thestrangebrew.co.uk/articles/barry-ryan-interview/)