Ian Prowse is a singer/songwriter from Merseyside who has formed two well known bands.
Pele were formed on Merseyside in 1990 with keyboard player Andrew Roberts. They released 3 albums on Polydor/M&G Records releasing Six singles reaching the UK charts, but abroad they scored hits in Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Holland and most notably a Number One in South Africa with ‘Megalomania’.
Ian Prowse 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”).”
Amsterdam also released a duet on EMI Records of “Don’t Throw Your Love Away” with Elvis Costello in Jan 2008 for the Liverpool Number One project. Christy Moore also released his version of “Does This Train Stop on Merseyside?” on Sony Records album Listen on April 17 2009.
Ian performed John Peel’s second favourite song for Sheila Ravenscroft, John Peel’s wife, at the naming of a train ceremony in Liverpool’s South Parkway Station in October 2008.
The latest Amsterdam album Arm in Arm was voted 14th best album of all time out of Liverpool by the readers of Liverpool.com in December 2008

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