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Boyzone won six awards in 1992 - but their change of fortune is partly down to Lord Lloyd-Webber.
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Other contestants include Chris Brosnan, son of Bond star Pierce, socialite Lady Victoria Hervey and ex-Boyzone star Shane Lynch.
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Last year, 10 million viewers watched the inaugural Record of the Year contest, with over one million voting for Boyzone.
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During the show, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and Boyzone singer Ronan Keating will light a symbolic candle to start the country's millennium celebrations.
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Last year, 10 million viewers watched the inaugural Record of the Year contest, with over one million voting Boyzone's No Matter What the winner.
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Boyzone frontman Ronan Keating, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are also in contention for the live awards, which are being broadcast on ITV.
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Lord Lloyd-Webber is also proud of Boyzone's success - but still fuming at the way record company Polydor deleted No Matter What from the charts by reducing its price.
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Jonathan King, who is behind the show, said Boyzone and Sir Cliff Richard were among the early names on the list but had failed to make it to the later stages.
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In 1996 Boyzone's cover of Words made the top.
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Take That bowed out with a cover of How Deep Is Your Love, Boyzone covered Words, Steps redid Tragedy for the under-10s and recent PopStars - The Rivals boy group One True Voice covered Sacred Trust.
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In November 2009, a story by Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir about the death of former Boyzone singer Stephen Gately attracted a record 25, 000 complaints to the PCC, on the grounds it was homophobic.
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