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• Goss Moor, Cornwall
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Matthew Weston Goss (born 29 September 1968)^[1] is an English singer and songwriter currently based in Los Angeles. He was the lead singer of 1980s pop group Bros, which also featured his twin brother Luke Goss as drummer and Craig Logan as bass player. He currently is appearing at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Bros[link]

Solo career[link]

Matt Goss began his solo career in 1995, and has enjoyed chart success with singles such as "The Key". He recorded a duet "This Pain" with his friend, Denise Pearson of Five Star in 1997, although the song never saw commercial release. He was one of the chefs on Gordon Ramsay's Hells Kitchen (ITV).

Goss's single "Firefly," remixed by Paul Oakenfold, reached #1 on the World Trance chart.

In June 2009, it was announced that he would be playing live shows at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. By January 2010, the live show had moved to Caesars Palace, playing at Cleopatra's Barge every Friday and Saturday night. In June of the same year, Goss signed a three-year contract with Caesars Palace. His live show is produced by the creator of The Pussycat Dolls and his manager Robin Antin. The show played for one night at the Royal Albert Hall, London on 19 October 2010 and returned on 21 October 2011.

In February 2011, Goss appeared in a Yorkshire Tea television advertisement campaign.

Bibliography[link]

Matt Goss authored two books: More Than You Know: The Autobiography published in 2005,^[2] and Bear Crimbo, a children's story published in 2010.^[3]

Discography[link]

Singles[link]

Albums[link]

• 1995 The Key
• 1997 One (as Co*Bra)
• 2004 Early Side of Later
• 2009 Gossy

References[link]

External links[link]

• Matt Goss – Biz Website
• Matt Goss – Official Website 2011
• Matt Goss New Album Produced By Ron Fair
• Matt Goss headliner at Caesars Palace
• Matt Goss is Las Vegas's new Frank Sinatra

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Kieran Goss is a Northern Irish contemporary singer-songwriter.^[1]

Biography[link]

Kieran Goss was born and raised in County Down, Northern Ireland. He was just nine years old when he got his first guitar. Growing up in a big family with diverse musical tastes meant that early on he was hearing his brothers’ Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson records, his mother’s Frank Sinatra records and his sisters’ Rolling Stones records. These varied influences gave Goss his own unique sound.

Goss supported himself while a law student in Belfast by playing club gigs and the University Students’ Union, earning himself support slots for Elvis Costello, Christy Moore and Joe Jackson along the way. He recorded his first album, Brand New Star, in 1989. It contained the songs "Brand New Star" and "Just Around The Corner," which came to the attention of Mary Black as she was preparing the album Babes In The Wood. She recorded both songs.

Kieran followed up Brand New Star with New Day in 1994 and in 1998 he released the album Worse Than Pride, which contained the Top 10 single "Out Of My Head." It was the second most played song on Irish radio that year. Worse Than Pride achieved double platinum status nine months after it was released. Red-Letter Day followed this in 2000 containing fan-favourite "Reasons To Leave".

In the winter of 2002, Goss released the compilation Out Of My Head... The Best Of Kieran Goss. His sixth studio album, Blue Sky Sunrise, was recorded in Tennessee in the spring of 2005 and was produced by Rodney Crowell and Peter Coleman. It was released later that year.

Goss currently resides in County Sligo, Ireland.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• Brand New Star (1989)
• Frances Black & Kieran Goss (1991)
• New Day (1994)
• Worse Than Pride (1998)
• Red-Letter Day (2000)
• Blue Sky Sunrise (2005)
• Trio Live (2008)
• I'll Be Seeing You (2009)
• For The Record (2010)

Compilations[link]

• Out of My Head... The Best of Kieran Goss (2002)
• A cover version of Underneath Your Clothes on Even Better than the Real Thing Vol. 1

DVDs[link]

• Kieran Goss Live at Belfast Opera House (2011)

Miscellaneous[link]

• Kieran is an uncle of the Oscar-nominated director Tomm Moore.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Kieran Goss Official Website
• Kieran Goss on MySpace
• Kieran Goss on Facebook

Luke Damon Goss (born 29 September 1968) is an English singer and actor. He has appeared in numerous films including Blade II (2002) as Jared Nomak, One Night With The King (2006) as King Xerxes, Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) as Prince Nuada and Tekken (2010) as Steve Fox.

Career[link]

Luke Goss along with twin brother Matt Goss, started his career with the hugely successful 1980s boy band Bros. In total he has charted with thirteen hit singles in the UK.

Luke Goss pictured in 1993

When Bros broke up in the early 1990s, Goss worked with the Band of Thieves. His autobiography, "I Owe You Nothing", was a top 10 best seller book and went on to have three subsequent printings. He also began to appear in stage musicals including Grease and What a Feeling, and has turned to acting in films full-time, with his first most notable role being the villain Jared Nomak in Blade II. He also appeared as The Creature in the Hallmark Channel's Frankenstein. Goss can be seen in the 2004 crime drama, Charlie in which he plays real-life gangster Charlie Richardson. Again, in the 2005 comedy, The Man he stars as another villain, Joey / Kane.

He has since had roles in One Night with the King, as King Xerxes. He appeared in Bone Dry, as Eddie and in the thriller Unearthed, as Kale. Goss received a CAMIE (Character and Morality in Entertainment) Award for his work in One Night with the King on May 12, 2007 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. Both One Night with the King and Bone Dry were viewed at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Bone Dry premiered in Los Angeles on January 9, 2008.

In the autumn of 2008, Goss returned from filming Hellboy II: The Golden Army in Budapest, Hungary, in which he plays Prince Nuada.^[1] The sequel was released in North America on July 11, 2008. In February, 2008, he signed to play the role of Steve Fox in Tekken, which was filmed in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was seen in a commercial for the new Cadillac Escalade Hybrid. In January 2010, Goss won the role as Frankenstein in Death Race 2^[2] under the direction from Roel Reiné, which began shooting on location in Eastern Europe in February, 2010.^[3] Goss also played the lead role in Syfy's dark tale television film Witchville.^[4] In May 2010, he won the Ultimate Badass Award at the PollyGrind Film Festival for his role in the zombie-vampire film The Dead Undead.

Personal life[link]

Since 1994, he has been married to backing singer Shirley Lewis, (who has worked with singers Elton John, George Michael, Luther Vandross, and many others), and has one stepdaughter, Carli. In January 2007, he and wife Shirley moved permanently to Los Angeles, but still maintain a residence in London.

Filmography[link]

References[link]

• http://www.perfectpeople.net/celebrity-star/7706/luke-goss.htm
• Telegraph.co.uk Interview with Luke Goss

External links[link]

• http://www.lukegossforum.com - Official website
• http://www.lukegossforum.com - Official Facebook
• http://www.myspace.com/lukegosssite - Official MySpace page
• Luke Goss at the Internet Movie Database

Wayne Keith Goss (born 26 February 1951) was Premier of Queensland from 7 December 1989 until 19 February 1996.

Early life[link]

He was born at Mundubbera, Queensland and educated at Inala High School and the University of Queensland (LLB). He worked as a solicitor and then with the Aboriginal Legal Service before setting up his own practice.

Political career[link]

Goss entered state politics as an Australian Labor Party (ALP) MLA in 1983 for the Division of Salisbury and later Logan. He was elected Leader of the Opposition in 1988.

Goss led Labor into the 1989 state elections against the National Party government of Russell Cooper. The Queensland Nationals were still reeling from revelations of the rampant corruption of longtime premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen, and polls showed Labor had its best chance of winning power in years. Labor had been in opposition since 1957, and last made a serious bid for government in 1972. Bjelke-Petersen's immediate successor, Mike Ahern, had been toppled in a party-room coup just two months before the election and replaced by Cooper.

Goss seized on National ads arguing that his plans to decriminalise homosexuality would result in gays flooding into Queensland. He replied with ads painting Cooper as a wild-eyed reactionary and a carbon copy of Bjelke-Petersen.

Goss and Labor won a strong majority government, scoring a 24-seat swing—the worst defeat of a sitting government up until that time in Queensland. His election win, which ended 32 years of Coalition/National Party rule, was seen as the beginning of a new era, with The Courier-Mail declaring "Goss the Boss". Once installed in office, he presided over the implementation of many of the reforms of the landmark Fitzgerald Inquiry into police corruption.

The Goss Government introduced several electoral reforms, the most notable being the elimination of the "Bjelkemander" that had helped keep the Queensland Nationals in power. It also introduced social reforms such as decriminalising homosexuality. Goss' Chief of Staff as Premier was former diplomat Kevin Rudd, later leader of the federal Labor Party and Prime Minister of Australia.

Goss won a second term at the 1992 state election, maintaining the same 19-seat majority he won in 1989 over the National Party and the Liberal Party (the two non-Labor parties went out of coalition in 1983, but resumed the coalition after the 1992 election).

Before the 1995 election the Goss Government announced a plan to clear sensitive bushland for an alternative to one of south-east Queensland's major roadways. This prompted the Greens Party to do something it had never done before: it recommended that its supporters not give their second preference, on voting ballots, to Labor. Partly as a result of this, as well as the increasing unpopularity of Goss's management style (widely thought to be authoritarian) and growing anger at the federal Labor government, Labor was severely punished at the polls. Notably, it lost several seats in Brisbane's Bayside area, known as 'the koala seats' because of the passion stirred up by a belief that the new road would destroy the habitat of koalas. Labor lost the popular vote to the Rob Borbidge-led Coalition, but managed to win 31 out of 40 seats in Brisbane, allowing it to salvage a knife-edge majority of one seat.

Irregularities were alleged in the Townsville seat of Mundingburra, which had been won by Labor's Ken Davies by only 12 votes over the Coalition's Frank Tanti, the most serious being that several servicemen serving in Rwanda didn't have their votes counted. Following a declaration by the Supreme Court of Queensland, sitting as a Court of Disputed Returns, a by-election was ordered for February 1996, which Tanti won. This outcome brought about a hung Parliament; the balance of power was held by Gladstone Independent Liz Cunningham. Cunningham announced that she was going to support the Coalition on the floor of Parliament, leaving Goss with no alternative but to resign as Premier in favour of Borbidge.

Goss' defeat proved to be a harbinger of federal Labor's massive defeat in the federal election held a month later. Labor suffered particularly heavy losses in Queensland; it was cut down to only two seats there, its worst result in the state since being reduced to only one seat in 1975. Goss later said that Queensland voters had turned so violently on then-Prime Minister Paul Keating that they were "sitting on their verandas with baseball bats" waiting for the writs to drop. [1]

Goss returned to the back benches of the Opposition under new Opposition Leader Peter Beattie and assumed something of an "elder statesman" role. However, a diagnosis of a brain tumour (subsequently partially removed without any problems) forced him to scale back his activities. Despite support from both sides of Parliament - evidenced when the House gave him a standing ovation on his return from surgery - Goss retired from politics.

At the time, rumours circulated that the Labor Party's Federal Opposition Leader Kim Beazley had offered Goss a front-bench position if he ran and won a seat in a Federal election; however no proof has been offered of this suggestion.

Post-political career[link]

Since his retirement from politics, Goss has served as an advisor to accountancy group Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as well as in various other public roles. Goss is currently Chairman of the Australian firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.

From 2003 to 2007, Goss was on the board of Ingeus Limited, the company founded by Thérèse Rein, the wife of former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, his former chief-of-staff.

Goss became Chairman of Free TV, the lobby group representing the free-to-air television companies in Australia, in 2008.

Wayne Goss is also an Ambassador of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation.

Family[link]

He still lives in Brisbane with his wife, Roisin.

They have two children, Ryan and Caitlin, both of whom attended the University of Queensland and were awarded Rhodes Scholarships to attend the University of Oxford in 2007 and 2009 respectively.^[2]

See also[link]

• Goss Ministry
• Gossia

References[link]

External links[link]

• Wayne Goss calls for cooperative federalism (Radio Interview 21 Oct 2005)

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