Stephen Gately
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 Stephen Gately facts

• All of Boyzone's studio albums during Gately's lifetime hit number one in the United Kingdom, their third being their most successful internationally
• With Boyzone, Gately had a record-breaking sixteen consecutive singles enter the top five of the UK Singles Chart
• He performed for millions of fans globally
• He released a solo album in 2000, after the group's initial break-up, which charted in the UK top ten and yielded three UK hit singles, including the top three hit "New Beginning"
• Gately went on to appear variously in stage productions and on television programmes as well as contributing songs to various projects
• In 2008, he rejoined his colleagues as Boyzone reformed for a series of concerts and recordings
• Gately made his sexuality known in 1999 and came out to publicity
• He married Andrew Cowles, first in a commitment ceremony in Las Vegas in 2003 and more formally in a civil partnership ceremony in London in 2006
• Upon Boyzone's reformation, Gately featured as part of the first gay couple in a boyband music video for "Better", in what was to be his last with the band
• Gately died of a congenital heart defect in a flat that he and Cowles owned in Mallorca, Spain in 2009