As front man of pop balladeers Wet Wet Wet, Marti Pellow scored four Number 1
albums and topped the UK singles chart for a record 15 weeks with their cover of
The Troggs hit Love Is All Around. Born to working class stock in Clydebank,
Scotland on March 23, 1965 (real name: Mark McLachlan), Marti Pellow was
expected to become a builder like his father but, upon discovering Sam Cooke and
Marvin Gaye, turned his hand to music and developed into a smooth-voiced,
hard-crooning, heart-throb. The band split in 1999 with Marti Pellow suffering
drug problems but, while recovering in The ...