It wasn't the likeliest of pop history moments. If
you had been there, you might have chuckled at the
crotch-grabbing freestyle dancing and you might also
have fancied them rotten. That's ok - you would have
been right on both counts, but you would have been
missing the main point, because the moment that
Boyzone first danced their way on to the late, late
show with Gay Byrne, pop history took a turn down a
different leg of the trousers of time. Millions of
records have been sold since, millions of fans have
besieged gigs, millions of words have been written
about them and millions of young fans will never be
the same again.
