The Bold and the Beautiful (often referred to as B&B) is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987.
Set in Los Angeles, California, the show centers upon the Forrester family and their fashion house business Forrester Creations. The program features an ensemble cast, headed by its longest-serving actors Susan Flannery as Stephanie Forrester, John McCook as Eric Forrester, Katherine Kelly Lang as Brooke Logan, Ronn Moss as Ridge Forrester also known as the core four. The Bold and the Beautiful is also a sister show to the Bells' other soap opera The Young and the Restless, as several characters from each of the two shows have crossed over to the other since the early 1990s, and its title derived from Y&R.
Since its premiere on March 23, 1987, the show has become the most-watched soap in the world, with an audience of an estimated 26.2 million viewers. As of 2010, it continues to hold on to the second-placed position in weekly Nielsen Ratings for daytime dramas. The Bold and the Beautiful has also won 31 Daytime Emmy Awards, including one for Outstanding Drama Series in 2009 and again in 2010, as well as in 2011.
The Beautiful South were an English alternative rock group formed at the end of the 1980s by two former members of Hull group The Housemartins, Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway. The group also consisted of Sean Welch (bass), Dave Stead (drums) and Dave Rotheray (guitar) and a succession of female vocalists - Briana Corrigan, Jacqui Abbott and Alison Wheeler.
The group broke up in January 2007, claiming the split was due to "musical similarities", having sold around 6,500,000 records worldwide. In January 2009, it was announced that the former members Dave Hemingway, Alison Wheeler, and Dave Stead would reform under the name "New Beautiful South" which was later changed to "The South".
The Beautiful South was originally conceived as a quintet with two lead vocalists, Heaton and Hemingway. Rotheray and Heaton, meanwhile, co-wrote the band's compositions.
On the band's first album, Briana Corrigan was featured as a background vocalist; she was promoted to full membership status in 1990, and thereafter featured as a lead vocalist on numerous Beautiful South tracks, which helped to characterise the bittersweet kitchen sink dramas played out in Heaton's often barbed songs. Also important to the band's sound was studio keyboard player Damon Butcher, who, though never an official member of the group, played virtually all the piano and keyboard parts on the band's albums.
(Ivor Raymonde / Mike Hawker)
I wanted you so
Wanted you to hold me tight
Take my love and treat me right
I needed your love so
But you're just the hurtin' kind
Nearly drove me out of my mind
Your hurtin' kinda love
Your hurtin' kinda love, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
It left me crying
I'd never been blue
I never had to cry all day
Tryin' to wash the hurt away
But then I fell for you
Giving you the love I had
Just to have you treat me so bad
Your hurtin' kinda love
Your hurtin' kinda love, oh, oh, oh, oh
It left me crying
So, now you're with another love
It just may be your lover
Could be the one to do what you have
Done to me, yeah
I want you to know
Even though you broke my heart
I can make a brand new start
I'm so glad to see you go
You will bring me no more pain
I will never cry again
Your hurtin' kinda love
Your hurtin' kinda love, oh, oh
It's over, baby, yeah
Your hurtin' kinda love
Your hurtin' kinda love
Come on baby, take this hurt off me, yeah
Come on baby, take this hurt off me, yeah
Come on baby, take this hurt off me
Each afternoon there's nothing else suitable
Tea and bickies with the Bold and the Beautiful
While outside is sending me crazy
I'll be your Thorn if you be my Macy
Go, go, go (x5)
Go, go, go, daytime T.V!
Amber is a scammer from the wrong side of the tracks
She's been sneaking round with Deacon; he wants her and his baby back
But she's married now to Rick who is an unsuspecting victim
Rick's mum Brooke tried to warn him but he didn't want to listen
Hey, Brooke and Deacon are now lovers, but in direct retaliation
To Rick and Amber's marriage, Deacon married Rick's relation
And in this sick and twisted world where blood appears as thin as water
Deacon's wife is Rick's sister Brigitte, and therefore Brooke's daughter
Each afternoon and there's nothing else suitable
It's tea and bickies with the Bold and the Beautiful
We'll get up late and have a 3pm breaky
I'll be your C.J. if you be my Becky
Go, go, go (x3)
Go, go, go, daytime T.V!
Eric, Ridge and Thorn have all been married to Brooke
But of the Forester men it's on Ridge that she's hooked
Ridge's marriage to Brooke met its inevitable failure
He's been happily married twice now to a woman named Taylor
But Brooke wasn't happy with a simple separation
She said I'll get that guy I've got drive and determination
It's come to Stephanie's attention and her intervention
Will seek to the prevention of Brooke's bad intentions
This plot is lacking some counter attacking
When they write Macy back and she'll send that bitch packing
Go Ricki (x7)
Go Jerry (x8)
I know that I've got a love strong and mutual
Every afternoon with the Bold and the Beautiful
So many plots and so many issues
Some days we have to use a whole box of tissues
I've never known a love deeper or greater
Than taping each episode to watch again later
I don't think it's bad or unusual
This sacred love of the Bold and the Beautiful
Go, go, go (x7)