Ian Prowse is a singer/songwriter who has been in a number of bands, without ever making it big.
Pele were formed on Merseyside in 1990 with keyboard player Andrew Roberts.
He formed Amsterdam in 1999, who had a UK top 40 single with "The Journey" in February 2005 .
Their albums are: Attitunes (Jan 2001), Live left and uncovered (Dec 2001), The Curse (Oct 2002), The Journey (June 2005) and Arm in Arm (March 2008)
Amsterdam also appeared on the compilation album 'Mersey Boys and Liverpool Girls' with their song 'And It Hurts' and have appeared backing Elvis Costello on the Jonathan Ross show.
Their song 'Does This Train Stop On Merseyside' was proclaimed by John Peel to be his second favourite song after 'Teenage Kicks' and that it moved him literally to tears, although public record of this statement seems to be amiss at the time of the publication of this Wikipedia article. From NME: "In a statement Liverpool band Amsterdam claimed that John Peel once said his second favourite song was their composition, 'Does this Train Stop On Merseyside?' (behind The Undertones' 'Teenage Kicks')."
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