Q+A D:REAM
THE 90s DANCE DUO WHOSE CLUB ANTHEM BECAME A POP HIT THAT SUMMED UP AN ENTIRE DECADE
BETH SIMPSON
© Sean McDonagh
Peter Cunnah was the cute tartansuited frontman, Al Mackenzie the DJ; club buddies who became pop stars and yes they wrote that epochdefining hit. But there is a lot more than just Things Can Only Get Better in D:Ream’s story – we’re talking a brilliant platinum-selling debut LP, drug epiphanies, cocaine addiction, a falling out over whether or not to support Take That and eventually reconciliation...
How did the pair of you first meet?
AL:
I used to run a night at the Brain Club in Soho. We met via my ex-wife. Pete used to go down there and one night she said to him, ‘Look, Al’s doing music, you’re struggling with something, why don’t you have a chat with him?’ I hadn’t been in a studio before where it was in a bedroom. Was there a bed in there?