Gold: Greatest HitsStepsGenre: PopDescription: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Gold (Greatest Hits) CD Jive 9201412 2001 20 Track AMAZON Countless tribute and sound-a-like bands have had various stabs at mimicking the magic of ABBA. Of the bunch Steps have been the most successful in their attempts to nurture a similar ABBA-esque musical style and image. It comes as no surprise that Steps should call their best of anthology Gold just like the bestselling best of from their Swedish heroes. The ABBA influences can be heard right from their earliest material--One For Sorrow to After The Love Has Gone (October 1999) through to newer compositions such as Baby Don't Dance (an updated version of Voulez-Vous?). Released at the peak of the line-dancing craze in the UK their thigh-slapping debut 5678 thus sounds remarkably out of place. Proving that they're no puppets of Mr Waterman the Euro-pop style Only In My Dreams is the first song written by Steps as a group. Their cover of Diana Ross's 1986 number one Chain Reaction looks destined along with Tragedy and the 70s disco inspired hit Stomp to become the songs which future generations will best remember Claire Faye Lisa H and Lee for. --John Galilee
