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RSVP may refer to:

• RSVP (invitations), request for responses

Music[link]

• R.S.V.P. (Five Star song), 1985
• R.S.V.P., a song by Heart from the 1987 album Bad Animals
• R.S.V.P., a song by Pop Will Eat Itself from the 1994 album Dos Dedos Mis Amigos
• R.S.V.P., a song by The Bloodhound Gang from the 2000 album Hooray for Boobies
• R.S.V.P., a 1988 album by Anne Clark
• R.S.V.P., a 2000 album by Ol' Skool
• R.S.V.P., a 2009 album by Richie Jen
• R.S.V.P., a 2010 song by Maulana

Science and technology[link]

• Resource Reservation Protocol
• RSVP-TE, an extension of Resource reservation protocol for traffic engineering
• Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, speed reading technology

Other[link]

• R.S.V.P. (film), a 2002 horror film
• RSVP (board game)
• Ride from Seattle to Vancouver and Party, bicycling event
• R.S.V.P., Pentel pen modified by hobbyists
• RSVP, Australian, dating site owned by Fairfax Media
• Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, a volunteerism promotion by Senior Corps

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Jason Donovan
Jason Donovan performing at Here and Now Tour 2011
Background information
Birth name	Jason Donovan
Born	(1968-06-01) 1 June 1968 (age 44) Malvern, Melbourne, Australia
Genres	Pop, Pop rock, Musical
Occupations	Singer, actor, radio and TV presenter
Years active	1979–present
Labels	PWL, Polydor
Website	jasondonovan.com

Jason Donovan (born 1 June 1968) is an Australian actor and singer. He initially achieved fame in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, before beginning a career in music in 1988. In the UK he has sold over 3 million records, and his début album Ten Good Reasons was one of the highest-selling albums of 1989 with UK sales of over 1.5 million copies. He has had four UK No. 1 singles, one of which was "Especially for You", his 1988 duet with Kylie Minogue. In more recent years, he has returned to acting on television and in stage musicals.

Biography[link]

Jason Donovan was born in Malvern, Melbourne, is the son of actor Terence Donovan, who also appeared in Neighbours as Doug Willis, and Sue McIntosh. His half-sister is former Neighbours star Stephanie McIntosh. Donovan attended De La Salle College, Malvern. His partner since 1998 is Angela Malloch, a former stage manager, with whom he has three children; a daughter, Jemma (born 28 March 2000) a son, Zac (born 22 March 2001), and daughter, Molly (born 9 March 2011). Donovan and Malloch were married in Bali in 2008.^[1]

He was the subject of an episode of the BBC TV series Who Do You Think You Are? on 30 August 2010 in which he discovered he is a descendant of the pioneer William Cox, who built the first road across Australia's Blue Mountains in 1814. Donovan also confirmed he is of Jewish descent through his maternal great-grandmother, Eileen Dawson (née Lyons). His great-great grandparents Joseph & Rosetta Lyons originated from Whitechapel, London.

[edit] Television career and Neighbours

Donovan made his first television appearance at the age of eleven in a guest role on the Australian series Skyways. In the episode, his on-screen sister was played by future co-star Kylie Minogue. He also featured in the series I Can Jump Puddles before reaching fame in 1986 in the soap opera Neighbours as Scott Robinson, replacing actor Darius Perkins, who had played the role for the first year of the series. His character's most notable story arc was his onscreen romance and wedding to Charlene Mitchell (played by Kylie Minogue).

He won his first Logie Award for "Best New Talent" in 1987 and received a commendation in the category "Performance by a Male Actor In a Series" from the Television Society of Australia's Penguin Awards. In 1988 he was awarded the 'Silver Logie' for the "Most Popular Actor" on Australian television.^{[citation needed]}

In addition to his regular role in Neighbours, Donovan appeared as "Happy Houston" in the 1988 Australian World War II mini-series The Heroes, based on the historical novel by Ronald McKie. He won the 1990 Logie Award for "Most Popular Actor in a Mini-Series".

Donovan left Neighbours in 1989. In 2009, he announced that he had been asked to return in 2010 to tie in with the show's 25th anniversary, but said that he was unable to do so due to other work commitments.^[2]

1988–1991: Pop career[link]

While he was still appearing in Neighbours, Donovan followed Minogue (who had already left the series by this point) in signing a recording contract with Mushroom Records in Australia, and with PWL in the UK. His first single, "Nothing Can Divide Us", was released in 1988. Like Minogue's material, it was written and produced by Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman (known as Stock Aitken Waterman). The single reached number five in the UK, and the top 40 in several other countries.^{[citation needed]}

Donovan's next single was a duet with Minogue. "Especially for You" was released in December 1988, and after spending four weeks at No. 2 in the UK, it hit No. 1 in January 1989. It was the fourth-highest selling single in the UK in 1988, and 17th in Australia for 1989. Donovan and Minogue also dated for a time during this period.

His next single, "Too Many Broken Hearts," reached number one in the UK in March 1989. He released his début album, Ten Good Reasons, in May 1989, which also reached number one (for three weeks). For two weeks, Donovan held the number one positions in the singles chart and the albums chart simultaneously, when his next single, a cover of Brian Hyland's "Sealed With a Kiss", entered the UK charts at number one.

In December 1989, he took part in Band Aid II's version of "Do They Know it's Christmas", which also included Minogue.

Donovan released his second album, Between The Lines in May 1990, again produced by Stock Aitken Waterman. Although the album reached Platinum status in the UK, it was less successful than his debut a year before, peaking at no.2 and selling only a fifth as many copies. Five singles were released from the album, and although they all reached the UK Top 30, they also signalled a decline in his popularity. Between 1988 and 1992, Donovan garnered 16 Top 40 hit singles in the UK.

[edit] 1991–1993: Joseph, and The Face

Donovan continued to act alongside his pop career, and in 1990 he appeared in his first feature film Blood Oath (aka Prisoners of the Sun).

With questions about his ability to sing, and the break-up of his relationship with Minogue due to her relationship with INXS singer Michael Hutchence, in 1991 Donovan accepted the lead role in the restaged London Palladium version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, directed by Steven Pimlott. Donovan had his third solo UK #1 single with one of its songs, Any Dream Will Do, while the production won the 1992 Laurence Olivier Awards for set design and costume design. Donovan later left the production citing "exhaustion" and was replaced in 1993 by TV presenter Phillip Schofield.

In 1992, Donovan launched a successful libel action against The Face magazine which had published allegations that he was gay. Donovan won £200,000 in damages and the magazine had to pay a further £100,000 in costs,^[3] but the action of his lawsuit made him appear homophobic to some sections of the media and had the effect of alienating much of his audience. Donovan tried to make amends and claimed that he did not sue the magazine out of greed or because he was homophobic, but because he had been accused of lying to his fans. Rather than launch an appeal, the publishers of the magazine came to an agreement with Donovan over the damages he was awarded. Regardless, Donovan's career never recovered from his act of litigation. Although he had been a mild drug user who had smoked cannabis joints up until this point, in the months after his libel action Donovan began using cocaine.^[4] In a 2007 interview in the magazine Marie Claire and also in his 2007 autobiography Between The Lines: My Story Uncut, Donovan admitted that suing The Face was the biggest mistake of his life.^[4]

Now no longer signed to PWL, who had released his first two albums and a "greatest hits" compilation, Donovan moved to Polydor Records. A year after his libel action against The Face, he released his third album, All Around The World (1993). However, the album was not a success and failed to make the UK Top 20 (all of Donovan's albums up until then had been Top 10) and was not released at all in his native Australia. Donovan was subsequently dropped by his new record company, effectively marking the end of his career as a pop star.

1995–1999: Drugs[link]

Donovan later admitted that by 1995 he had a serious drug problem, taking around two grams of cocaine a day. In early 1995, he attended model Kate Moss's 21st birthday party at The Viper Room in Los Angeles, where he suffered a drug-induced seizure (the same venue at which River Phoenix had died of a drug overdose in 1993). Donovan was rushed to hospital and claims that the last face he remembered seeing was that of Michael Hutchence.^[1]

Later in 1995, Donovan starred in the natively produced Australian film called The Last Bullet^[5] with Koji Tamaki, directed by Michael Pattison, which was set in World War II on the Pacific island of Borneo in the last days of 1945.

In 1998, Donovan took the lead role of Dr. Frank N. Furter in the UK touring production of The Rocky Horror Show, where he met stage manager Angela Malloch. After the pair had a brief relationship, Malloch became pregnant and gave Donovan an ultimatum that he had to kick drugs once and for all if he wanted to be part of their child's life.^[1]

In various articles in late 1999, Donovan admitted that he still used cocaine, saying: I still have a joint and I still take coke, but not as much as I did two years ago.^[6]

Donovan has claimed to be drug-free since 2000, the year his first child was born.^[1]

2000–2005: Fatherhood[link]

Donovan's daughter Jemma was born in March 2000. Since then, with his drug problems now under control, he continued to act on stage and television, and had a role in the medical-legal television drama MDA (2003–05), on Australia's ABC network. Since 2003, Donovan has also lent his voice to the Buzz! series of quiz video games.

In late 2004, he was headlining in the stage musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium. He finished his original run on 13 March 2005, but was then invited back from June onwards to play in the final two months of the show, until its closure on 4 September 2005. Following this, he has toured the UK performing a few gigs and returned to the stage in January 2006 to star in a UK tour of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. After this, he returned to Melbourne to star in David Eldrige's Australian transfer of the London drama Festen.

[edit] 2005–2006: Virgin marketing campaign and I'm A Celebrity...

In 2005, Donovan's mobile phone number was circulated around the web in Australia, due to an image that was taken in Sydney. It appeared that Donovan was trying to sell his car, and unwittingly released his mobile phone number to the public. From 10 September, his answering machine had a special message on it, because he was frustrated by the number of calls he was receiving for no particular reason. Virgin placed advertisements in several high-profile Australian newspapers, urging people not to call Donovan, one of their customers.^[7] Virgin Mobile has since admitted the photos were all part of a marketing ploy. Virgin also ran TV advertisements showing Donovan answering prank calls, asking the viewer not to call him, then displaying his number.

Donovan took part in I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2006 and finished in 3rd place. While in the jungle, he became good friends with David Gest and Matt Willis. Donovan also took part in many Bushtucker Trials, which included wearing a helmet full of insects and playing a giant game of Operation. Donovan lost out on the King of the Jungle Crown to Matt Willis. However, during an interview on "The Steve Wright Show" on BBC Radio 2 (January 2008), he claimed that his appearance on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! had revitalised his career.

2007–2009: Return to music and soap operas[link]

Jason Donovan at a 2007 book signing in Waterstones Bournemouth.

Donovan performed a medley of songs from Joseph along with other actors who have played the eponymous role (Donny Osmond and Lee Mead) at the Concert for Diana in July 2007.^[8]

In early 2008, Donovan had a role in ITV's post-watershed soap opera Echo Beach; the series was cancelled after 12 episodes. He also presented Sunday Night with Jason Donovan, a programme on The One Network of British local radio stations.

On 25 September 2008, Donovan performed in the canteen at the head offices of Tesco in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. He was promoting his forthcoming album, Let It Be Me, which was released on 10 November 2008. The album, his first for 15 years, reached No. 28 in Britain.

Also in 2008, Donovan performed at the Party In The Park in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.

In 2009, Donovan performed as Tick (Mitzi) in the London stage musical production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert at the Palace Theatre. Also in 2009, Donovan began appearing in television commercials (with Kerry Katona and Coleen Nolan) for the frozen food supermarket chain Iceland in the UK.

2010–present[link]

In September 2010, Donovan took part in the BBC Television Series Who Do You Think You Are?, tracing his family tree back several generations. Donovan's fifth studio album, Soundtrack Of The 80s, was released in October 2010. The album is composed of cover versions of well known 80s hits such as "Drive" (The Cars), "I Just Died In Your Arms" (Cutting Crew) and "Sign Your Name" (Terence Trent D'Arby) and several others. The same year, Donovan played the role of The Artilleryman in the 2010–2011 stage show Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. The show toured the UK and Europe, starting in November 2010 and finished in Germany in January 2011.^{[citation needed]} Donovan also voiced the part of Toby the Kangaroo in the environmental animated film, Animals United.

In February 2011, Donovan appeared on the BBC series Ready, Steady, Cook. Donovan has appeared in Casualty as a British soldier injured in Afghanistan. In 2011, he performed on the Here and Now Tour, and also toured in a production of The Sound of Music playing Captain Von Trapp. The production co-starred Verity Rushworth as Maria.

From September 2011, Donovan took part in the ninth series of Strictly Come Dancing.^[9] He was partnered with dancer Kristina Rihanoff and finished third in the competition.

Donovan also currently hosts his own show on Heart Network Radio across the UK, on Sunday afternoons between 12 noon to 4pm.^[10]

In March 2012, Donovan released a new album of covers, Sign Of Your Love, which peaked at number 36 in the UK Albums Chart.

In May 2012, Donovan was interviewed by Piers Morgan on the ITV series Piers Morgan's Life Stories talking about his relationship with Kylie Minogue and his battle with drugs.

Discography[link]

Singles[link]

Albums[link]

Acting credits[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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Five or 5 Star(s) or star(s) may refer to:

• Five-star rank, a senior military rank
• A grading of a hotel, restaurant, movie, TV show, theatre or musical work or performance - see star (classification)
• Five Star (film), South Indian Tamil film
• Five Star Production, a Thai film production company
• Five Star Final, 1931 film
• The Five Star Stories or Five Star Monogatari, manga series and 1989 film
• Five Star Theater, American 1930s radio series
• Five Star Jubilee, a 1961 NBC-TV program
• Five Star Jet Center, and Five Star Flight Academy, at Barnes Municipal Airport, Westfield, MA, USA
• Five Star Publishing, fiction imprint of Gale (Cengage)
• Five Star Bus Company, Inc, in the Philippines
• 5 Star (supermarkets), an Australian group, competitors of IGA (Australian supermarket group)
• UEFA elite stadiums (known as 5 star stadiums until 2006), football stadiums graded on suitability to host major matches
• Five-starred red flag or Five-star red flag, the Flag of the People's Republic of China
• Five Star, a triangular shaped and powerful firecracker manufactured in the Philippines
• Five star energy rating system, a No load power#Policies to reduce no load power for mobile phone chargers
• Five Star Supermarket (Ireland), a former supermarket chain in Ireland
• 5*, a UK TV channel, sister channel of Channel 5

Albums, EPs, music DVDs & songs[link]

• Five-star (album), 2007 greatest hits album by Japanese singer Yuki Isoya
• Five Star (album), 1990 eponymous album by the British group Five Star
• 5 Star (song), by rapper Yo Gotti

Bands[link]

• Five Star, a British pop group from Romford, Essex
• Five Stars (Bulgarian group), includes Svetlozar Hristov, singer about Torbalan
• The Five Stars, a Samoan musical group

See also[link]

• Five-pointed star
• All pages beginning with "Five Star"
• All pages beginning with "Five star"
• All pages beginning with "5 Star"
• All pages beginning with "5 star"
• For other numbers of stars, see Category:Star ranking systems.

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Pop Will Eat Itself (also known as PWEI or The Poppies) are an English alternative rock band, originally formed in Stourbridge in 1986, with members from Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country. Initially known as a Grebo act, their style changed to incorporate sample driven indie and industrial rock.^[1][2] Their highest charting single was 1993's "Get The Girl! Kill The Baddies!".^[3] After initially disbanding in 1996, and having a brief reformation in 2005, they issued their first release in over five years in 2010.

History[link]

Early years: 1981–1988[link]

An early permutation of the band formed in 1981 under the name From Eden; members included Clint Mansell, Adam Mole, Chris Fradgley, Malcolm Treece and Miles Hunt (Treece and Hunt went on to form The Wonder Stuff). From Eden recruited Graham Crabb to replace Hunt on drums before splitting up. Crabb, Mole and Mansell recruited Richard March and changed their name to Wild and Wandering,^[1] (named after a Wasted Youth album) and they eventually became Pop Will Eat Itself in 1986. They took their name from a quotation in an NME article on Jamie Wednesday by David Quantick.^[2]

In 1986 the band released the "Poppies Say Grrr!" single which became the 'Single Of The Week' in the NME and playlisted by BBC Radio 1.^[1] Crabb moved from drumming to singing and was replaced by a drum machine called 'Dr. Nightmare'.^[2] Their style continued to expand with "There Is No Love Between Us Anymore" and "Def. Con. One" (1988). As a result, PWEI were signed to the record label RCA and they achieved Top 40 hits with "Can U Dig It?" and "Wise Up! Sucker" from their album, This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!^[1] In October 1988 they were bottled off the stage when supporting Public Enemy, although invited to tour the then Soviet Union.^[2][4]

The RCA years: 1989–1993[link]

They released three successful albums on RCA. The first two (…This is This! and Cure for Sanity) were recorded with the aid of Flood, known for his work with Nine Inch Nails, U2 and Depeche Mode.

On 1992's The Looks or the Lifestyle? the band recruited Robert "Fuzz" Townshend as their drummer to complement their standard array of loops and pre-programmed drums, with one of his first live performances being at the now closed Brighton Richmond club, now known as The Pressure Point. The album peaked at UK #15, and featured the Top 30 hit singles "Karmadrome" and "Bulletproof!"^[1][2] By January 1993, however, the band's biggest supporters at RCA had left the company, and the remaining executives did not understand the band or their music.^[5] The band was dropped from the label before the "Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!" single was released. It went on to peak at number 9 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's biggest hit.^[1]

Industrial influence: 1994–1995[link]

RCA agreed to write off the debts that the band had accumulated in recording studio fees in return for PWEI's back catalogue.^{[citation needed]} They signed a recording contract with Infectious Records, a label initiated by their friend Korda Marshell, who had signed them to RCA, but had since left the label.

PWEI's political stance became more explicit with the release of the single "Ich Bin Ein Auslander". A collaboration with Asian group Fun-Da-Mental, the song had anti-nazi styled lyrics and reached the UK Top 30.^[1] A different version of this song later appeared as the opening track on the 1994 album, Dos Dedos Mis Amigos. The album peaked at #11 in the UK Albums Chart and spawned their then final single release, "Everything's Cool", which became their ninth Top 30 UK hit.^[1]

The band found some new popularity after signing with Trent Reznor's Nothing Records in the US, and touring with Nine Inch Nails, as well as having their songs used on the PlayStation game Loaded. In March 1995 the band released the Dos Dedos Mis Amigos remix album Two Fingers My Friends! which featured remixes by The Orb, Apollo 440 and Renegade Soundwave. It was about this time that Crabb left the band and was replaced by Kerry Hammond with Mansell taking over full vocal duties. The band continued recording and touring until 1996, including a collaboration with The Prodigy. However, the band took a break before finishing production of their next album with Reznor. One track from this period was released, a cover version of Gary Numan's "Friends".^[6]

Almost all artwork and corporate identity for the band's record sleeves and merchandising were designed by the Sheffield based, now defunct design house The Designers Republic. The Designers Republic's work with PWEI can be found in the Design Museum, London.

Vestan Pance[link]

All PWEI songs were credited to Vestan Pance. It was a pseudonym for the band as a whole. Although the songs were mainly Crabb or Mansell compositions, using a pseudonym was considered more interesting than just "All songs by Pop Will Eat Itself". When Townshend joined the band, an attempt to change the name to 'Vestan Pance and Socks' was denied by RCA.^[7]

Disbanded: 1996[link]

Crabb concentrated on his ambient side project Golden Claw Musics. After the rest of the band split in 1996, March and Townshend went on to form the big beat band Bentley Rhythm Ace.^[2] Townshend also released two solo albums and Mansell wrote a number of film scores, including Requiem for a Dream, π, Doom, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Moon, and Black Swan.

Reformation: 2005[link]

The band reformed to play their first gigs in eight years, in Nottingham, Birmingham, and London in January 2005. These gigs were notable for their Instant Live albums, whereby ten minutes after the completion of each gig, double live albums of the performance could be purchased.

The band released a preview of new material called 'Sonic Noise Byte' on 4 November 2005, as a torrent download for members of their official website pweination. However, an announcement on the official website in March 2006 confirmed that Mansell and March would no longer be involved in the project due to other work commitments, effectively ending the PWEI reformation. However the remaining band members continued as Vileevils, and released the tracks "Retro Dreaming" and "Street Fightin" for download via the pweination website.

A secret, one-night PWEI reunion was scheduled to happen at the Vileevils show at Stourbridge Rock Cafe on 9 June 2007, but was foiled when Mansell was unable to obtain a visa in time to fly back to the UK.^[8] March still appeared at the show, and after the Vileevils set they played the planned PWEI songs, sans Mansell.

PWEI World Service: 2010–present[link]

On February 23, 2010, a press release was issued to those on the dPulse Recordings mailing list, stating that Crabb would be discontinuing work on the Vileevils project, to concentrate on reviving Pop Will Eat Itself with a new PWEI album, new band and tour dates to be announced.^[9] On 11 May 2010, PWEI released the "Axe of Men 2010" single on a CD/DVD combination, featuring "Axe of Men 2010", a remastered "Sonic Noise Byte", and a DVD with Vileevils material.

In July 2011, a new line-up was announced, featuring Graham Crabb as the only original member. In October that year the album, New Noise Designed By A Sadist, was released on Cooking Vinyl, to be followed by a UK tour.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Live albums[link]

• Weird's Bar and Grill (Live) (1993) UK #44
• The Radio 1 Sessions 1986-87 (1997)
• Reformation: Nottingham Rock City 20.01.05 (2005)
• Reformation: Birmingham Carling Academy 22.01.05 (2005)
• Reformation: Birmingham Carling Academy 23.01.05 (2005)
• Reformation: London Shepherds Bush Empire 24.01.05 (2005)
• Reformation: London Shepherds Bush Empire 25.01.05 (2005)
• On Patrol in the UK 2012 (2012)

Compilations[link]

• Now for a Feast! (1988)
• 16 Different Flavours of Hell (Best of) (1993) UK #73
• Wise Up Suckers (BMG best of) (1996)
• PWEI Product 1986-1994 (Anthology) (2002)
• The Best Of (2008)^[3]

Remix albums[link]

• Two Fingers My Friends! (1995) UK #25

EPs[link]

• 2000 Light Ales from Home (1986) under the name 'Wild And Wandering'
• The Poppies Say GRRrrr! (1986)
• Poppiecock (1986)
• Very Metal Noise Pollution (1989) UK #45
• Amalgamation (1994)^[3]

Singles[link]

Videos[link]

• Unspoilt by Progress VHS (1991)
• Reformation: Birmingham Carling Academy 23.01.05 DVD (2005)

References[link]

External links[link]

• The Designers Republic
• The official pop will eat itself web site
• An unofficial pop will eat itself fan site with forum