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	Stock Aitken Waterman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stock Aitken Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, were a British songwriting and record producing trio who had great success during the mid-late 1980s and early 1990s with many of their productions.
		Stock, Aitken and Waterman with Kylie Minogue, c.
		Waterman made no attempt to hide his hostility towards the sampling culture prevalent at the time, and when M/A/R/R/S sampled "Roadblock" for their track "Pump Up the Volume" he was quick to instigate legal action against them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stock_Aitken_Waterman (932 words)

	Info and facts on 'Stock Aitken Waterman' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stock Aitken Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, were a British (The people of Great Britain) songwriting and record producing (additional info and facts about record producing) trio who had great success during the late 1980s (The decade from 1980 to 1989) and early 1990s (The decade from 1990 to 1999) with many of their productions.
		However, Pete Waterman defended their style by comparing it to the output of Motown (The largest city in Michigan and a major Great Lakes port; center of the United States automobile industry; located in southeastern Michigan on the Detroit river across from Windsor) in the 1960s (The decade from 1960 to 1969).
		Waterman made no attempt to hide his hostility towards the sampling ((statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study) culture prevalent at the time, and when M/A/R/R/S (additional info and facts about M/A/R/R/S) sampled "Roadblock" for their track "Pump Up the Volume" he was quick to instigate legal action against them.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/stock_aitken_waterman.htm (1156 words)

	Encyclopedia: Stock Aitken Waterman
		Mike Stock (born December 3, 1951) is a British song writer best known as being one third of the song writing trio Stock Aitken Waterman.
		Pete Waterman, OBE (born at Coventry on January 15, 1947) is a British record producer, songwriter, radio and club DJ, television presenter and a keen railway enthusiast.
		Stock Aitken Waterman came under much attack from the music industry and press because of their brazen attitudes towards making records that were obviously designed to be commercial.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Stock-Aitken-Waterman (1915 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Stock Aitken Waterman - A428690
		By this time SAW were notorious enough to have their own sketches on 'Spitting Image', with them operating a huge conveyor-belt machine with two settings: high vocals for Kylie, low vocals for Rick and Jason....
		Stock and Aitken, when not producing bill-paying mum-pleasing atrocities like Robson and Jerome, went back to their gay disco roots with their own label, Love This Records, and produced 90s club classics like Newton's 'Sky High' and Tatjana's 'Santa Maria' (as featured to dramatic effect in the closing moments of Queer As Folk's first series).
		Waterman, meanwhile, used his millions to fund his boyhood dream of owning a private railway company, before returning to the world of pop in the late 90s with his immensely successful creation, Steps.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A428690 (1230 words)

	STOCK, AITKEN and WATERMAN : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Waterman's knowledge of pop music was astonishing: 'Yes, we listen to everybody's records, and we make records like them.
		Waterman's late-night TV dance show The Hit-Man And Her was another landmark of the era's kitsch; he also played with his trains (not toy ones: he had real trains, having purchased British Rail's Special Trains division during the privatization carnival), and became internationally known as a breeder of Koi carp.
		Stock and Aitken also went on to sue Waterman for a fairer share of royalties on their earlier work.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/s/S213.HTM (336 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| Taking Stock of modern pop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With the big personality of Pete Waterman, who has gone on to be a judge on Pop Idol and Popstars, the contribution made by Stock and Aitken is in danger of being forgotten.
		Stock says they were "wide of the mark" but admits he did not actually read the whole thing.
		Stock also worked closely with that other pop guru Simon Cowell, who at the time was hugely successful but less of a celebrity, collaborating on Robson and Jerome and Power Rangers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/3632388.stm (853 words)

	Starmakers fall out in £1m royalties battle
		STOCK, Aitken and Waterman, the men who made a career from launching unknowns on the road to pop stardom, are embroiled in a legal row over royalties earned from the stars they created.
		Waterman, who acted as the partnership's public face and organised its business affairs, led a lavish lifestyle at the height of his career, owning 18 classic Jaguars and Ferraris, which he kept at his £500,000 mansion in Cheshire.
		Waterman said through a spokesman that the action was "a technicality" which he could not comment on further.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/03/15/nhit15.html (490 words)

	Tangents fun'n'frenzy filled web site.
		There was Pete Waterman, the ideas man, lyricist, general wheeler-dealer and tv presenter on 'The Hitman And Her' arguably the trashiest TV show of its time, as well as a precursor to the world of 'Ibiza Uncovered'.
		SAW discovered and groomed new singing stars like Sinitta, Brother Beyond and Rick Astley, or took already famous faces from the world of TV and tabloids like Kylie, Jason and Samantha Fox and crowbarred them into the SAW sound, often resorting to recording with something sinister called the Calrec Soundfield Microphone.
		Stock and Aitken, when not producing bill-paying mum-pleasing atrocities like Robson and Jerome, went back to their gay disco roots with 90s club classics like Newton's 'Sky High' and Tatjana's 'Santa Maria' (as featured to dramatic effect in the closing moments of Queer As Folk's first series) and Waterman most notably with Steps.
	www.tangents.co.uk /tangents/main/pre-2001/saw.html (912 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Weekend \| Return of the hitmen
		Their roles in the studio were strictly demarcated - Stock and Aitken wrote the songs; Waterman suggested titles, applied his DJ instinct for what would work on the dance floor, liaised with artists and took care of business - and their personalities seem utterly different.
		Waterman bought a helicopter and a class 24 diesel locomotive, and parlayed their success into media celebrity, co-presenting The Hitman & Her, a low-budget TV show that revelled in the more garish aspects of provincial club culture and was broadcast in the middle of the night.
		Aitken's theories, which he starts quietly to expound, involve producers being too clever for their own good, music being dishonest, and, curiously, the popularity of fusion cooking in restaurants.
	www.guardian.co.uk /weekend/story/0,3605,1655004,00.html (2524 words)

	VH1.com : Stock, Aitken & Waterman : Biography
		Stock, Aitken & Waterman were about as commercial as it gets -- at times, they were downright bubblegum -- and that fact wasn't lost on the British rock critics who bashed them unmercifully.
		Stock, Aitken & Waterman was the team that American star Donna Summer turned to when, in 1989, she wanted to return to a Euro-disco/Euro-dance approach.
		With Minogue, Stock, Aitken & Waterman wanted a very hands-on approach; in addition to doing the producing and writing, they wanted to control the image that Minogue projected in her videos.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/stock_aitken_and_waterman/bio.jhtml (789 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Stock, Aitken and Waterman
		By this time SAW were notorious enough to have their own sketches on 'Spitting Image', with them operating a huge conveyor-belt machine with two settings: high vocals for Kylie, low vocals for Rick and Jason and the rest of the music entirely interchangeable between artists.
		Stock and Aitken, when not producing bill-paying mum-pleasing atrocities like Robson and Jerome, went back to their gay disco roots with their own label, Love This Records, and produced '90s club classics like Newton's 'Sky High' and Tatjana's 'Santa Maria
		Waterman, meanwhile, used his millions to fund his boyhood dream of owning a private railway company, before returning to the world of pop in the late 1990s with his immensely successful creation, Steps.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A493661 (1216 words)

	stock (cookery) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about stock (cookery)
		White stock is made from poultry or veal, and vegetables boiled together in water.
		Brown stock is made from red meat or bones, and vegetables, browned in fat before being boiled in water.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /stock+(cookery) (104 words)

	icWales - The hit man
		The SAW team saw hundreds of fledgling pop stars and starlets either launch themselves into the musical stratosphere or fall cruelly by the wayside as they built their empire on songs that you just could not get out of your head.
		SAW finally imploded as the music industry grew darker at the tail end of the 80s; as cocaine became the currency - something Stock insists he was never involved with - and as the trio got so famous they received flmail and death threats.
		After Aitken had left, Stock and Waterman were at each other's throats, and the heady days of the Hit Factory were over for good.
	icwales.icnetwork.co.uk /0900entertainment/0050artsnews/tm_objectid=14678062&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=the-hit-man-name_page.html (1713 words)

	bmusic - Newsletter No. 101
		Waterman had led a far more lavish lifestyle than his colleagues at the height of their careers, owning 18 classic Jaguars and Ferraris, which he kept at his £500,000 mansion in Cheshire.
		Waterman was facing a grim future with his fortune dwindling and his staff, once over 40 people, down to just two after ploughing all his money into the rail venture.
		Waterman had made ignorant comments regarding her size that you'd expect from a bloke who was one part of a trio who helped to bugger up popular music for the better part of a decade.
	www.bmusic.com.au /links/whatsnew/newsletters/archives/newsno101.html (6447 words)

	LiMBO Kylie Minogue News \| www.kylie.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the next two years, Stock Aitken Waterman sold 40million records., but, says Mike: "It was hard work - On that first day Kylie came in, I was working in the morning with Bananarama, at lunchtime with Rick Astley, and in the evening I was mixing Sam Fox.
		Waterman said the duo were due "cash only" for their contribution and had no continuing interest in SAW's music.
		Stock Aitken and Waterman dominated the music chart for the best part of the 1980s.
	www.kylie.co.uk /newsroom/00000029.html (1851 words)

	Minogue sues UK producer - Music - www.smh.com.au
		Waterman was originally a partner in Stock Aitken Waterman, the giant songwriting and producing company founded in 1984, which has pumped out some of the biggest hit singles of all time.
		Stock Aitken Waterman launched Minogue's career outside Australia in 1988 after she visited their London office wanting to record a song.
		Then in 2002 Waterman told a magazine that the pop star's first hit in 1988 almost sent the Stock Aitken Waterman company bankrupt because it had to pay her so much.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2005/01/22/1106334261192.html (636 words)

	CD Times - The return of Stock, Aitken and Waterman?
		Apparently the 80's production team Stock Aitken & Waterman have reformed and are planning their "coming of age" album to celebrate 21 years in the music industry.
		Stock Aitken Waterman were hugely successful in the 1980's with over 100 top 40 hits in the UK alone including 13 number ones.
		Pete Waterman was last seen as a judge on pop idol, Mike Stock inflicted the Fast Food Rockers on the world and hasn't quite been forgiven yet and Matt Aitken left the music business altogether.
	www.cdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=1385 (552 words)

	> The Hit Factory: The Stock Aitken Waterman Story - by Mike Stock (Book)
		S/A/W became known as the ‘Hit Factory’, producing and recording more than 100 Top 40 singles during the 1980s –; a claim that even The Beatles, did not achieve.
		Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman notched up over 60 UK Top Ten singles, including 13 UK Number Ones as a trio, with an impressive stable of artists, including Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Rick Astley and Bananarama.
		The Hit Factory is Mike Stock’s story of how it all came together – about a lot of fun, hard work and innocent dreams, the personalities behind the scenes and the stars whose hits lit up the charts.
	www.davegeeonline.com /book/mike-stock-hit-factory.htm (289 words)

	icCoventry - The return of Stock, Aitken and Waterman
		Coventry-born music mogul Pete Waterman and his famous former partners, Mike Stock and Matt Aitken, are set to launch an album of some of their best work.
		In the early 90s, Waterman split from the partnership and in 1997 Mick Stock and Matt Aitken sued in a major row over royalties.
		Waterman, who was born in Stoke Heath, Coventry, was also involved in another royalties row this year with pop princess Kylie Minogue, who claimed he had underpaid her by £440,000.
	iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=15946961&method=full&siteid=50003&headline=the-return-of-stock--aitken-and-waterman-name_page.html (271 words)

	PWL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This page describes Stock Aitken Waterman (or SAW for short), the ubiquitous pop writing and producing team of the 1980s, and Pete Waterman Limited, the independent British record that was home to the producers and most of their releases.
		Stock and Waterman continued to write and produce, despite a number of high-profile defections of artists and mixers from PWL.
		Stock and Aitken's reunion single, "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" by Kym Mazelle and Joycelyn Brown, was released in 1994 on Arista UK.
	suif.stanford.edu /~jeffop/WWW/pwl.html (517 words)

	Mike Stock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In April 2003, Stock together with millionaire businessman Bob Patmore launched a new record label called "Better the Devil Records".
		In September 2004, wrote a book titled The Hit Factory: The Stock, Aitken and Waterman Story ISBN 1843307294.
		In 2005, Stock Aitken Waterman began working together again.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_Stock (110 words)

	MTV.com \| Kylie Minogue \| Biography
		As was their way, Stock Aitken and Waterman wrote and produced her records and they controlled her video image.
		If she was ever just along for the ride, Minogue took her first step towards control over her career with her 1990 single "Better the Devil You Know," not letting Stock Aitken and Waterman see the video she was making for the song until it was completed.
		SAW insisted on casting her in a girl-next-door mode, while Minogue opted for a saucier Madonna-like image.
	www.mtv.com /music/artist/minogue_kylie/bio.jhtml (885 words)

	Stock Aitken Waterman: S/D (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		SAW- actually, I got a bit annoyed with using variations of the same chorus in their post-1985 stuff (and even later, variations of the same verse!!!), but some of their early-to-mid-period stuff stands up really well!!!!
		What are Stock and Aitken up to now their old mucker (and ex- plaintiff or was it the other way round) is on his way to becoming a National Treasure?
		The best thing about Stock Aitken Waterman was their absolute refusal to bow down before any aesthetic standard whatsoever.
	ilx.p3r.net /thread.php?msgid=1911431 (2568 words)

	FirstCoast News.com - Print Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		LONDON (AP) -- Pop impresario Pete Waterman collected an award from Queen Elizabeth II - and said he had been amazed that she knew some of his songs.
		Waterman, who was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, or OBE on Wednesday, said his childhood dreams had been limited.
		Stock, Aitken and Waterman also guided the careers of singer Jason Donovan and the all-girl band Bananarama in the 1980s, and helped create some 200 hit singles.
	www.firstcoastnews.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=33055 (164 words)

	REVIEW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		SAW are best known in America for exposing (or cursing) America to Rick Astley, Kylie Minogue and Bananarama.
		Although the future of the trio is suspect, their past has spurned many collectors to try and obtain all of their associated collectibles.
		The 40 page 'zine, including many photographs and interviews, highlights the history of the SAW legacy, including the most complete discography of SAW material available in any format.
	www.westnet.com /consumable/1994/10.17/revsaw.html (144 words)

	Who is Kylie Minogue? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Signed to a contract by British songwriters and record producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman, Minogue achieved a string of hit records throughout the world, but her popularity began to decline by the early 1990s, leading her to part company from Stock, Aitken and Waterman in 1992.
		Minogue had become Stock, Aitken and Waterman's highest selling act, so in the face of widespread comment that the second album was a poor imitation of the first, it was decided to adjust the overall style of her music.
		Realizing that her fans were growing apathetic towards the Stock, Aitken and Waterman formula, and that she could only develop as an artist if she broke away from them, she decided to leave.
	www.juiceenewsdaily.com /0505/entertainment/kyl_mon.html (4311 words)

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