Four years late

IT WAS A long start and a slow change for Brendan Brady taking him to the point of his life he was the most happiest he had been in years even though at times he felt let down.

He often thinks back to that early spring morning in his house where he had that nameless guy in his bedroom and watching MTV which he rarely did but had a glimpse of the rock star Steven Hay. It was still music to his ears. He laughs slightly to himself as thoughts keep wondering in his mind as he lies down on his black leather couch in his studio working on his first album. He closes his eyes and smiles.

He remembers that he got off of the chair for good once he was done talking to his best friend Joel, who never believed that he could become a better person or that he could be a rock star. He walked back into his bedroom and got dressed and after that he went for a walk outside his Hollyoaks flat that he lived with his sister Cheryl and since he had music on his brain he went to a used guitar shop and bought himself a blue Gibson guitar even though he didn't know how to play, he just knew that deep down he had to be a rock star. He didn't even know if he could sing or not but he had to give it a try, it was more than just getting the boy of his dreams, it was about the boy gave him a reason to be a better person, gave him a reason to try things he never thought that he could.

Brendan recollects the morning after that he was lying in bed with his laptop on his lap searching for Steven Hay know he knows that he went most of the time as Ste but to him he would always be Steven. Brendan was too busy the day before to search about him. He found out all sorts of stuff about him on Wikipedia, which included information about his famous friends in Hollywood and New York and even visits Hollyoaks to visit friends. Brendan had no idea that he lived in the same neighborhood. He found his contacts that he knew and the schools that he and his friends attended and anything else that he thought was useful or just to simply feel a bit closer to Steven and he printed up all that information up. Even though they wouldn't have contact for a few years. He thought he was being lame but he didn't care.

He was surprise to read that he had been in the entertainment industry for almost 20 years starting with being an extra in the movie "One Lonely Ice Skater" at the age of 3 which was about a this young boy trying to break it into the Ice Skating world, then he was on a reality show called "Can You Dance" when he was 10, funny thing was that he remembered watching it as a kid but didn't recognize him from the show.

Brendan registered to a local community college for music, when he relocated to his home town of Belfast Ireland when he found out his son Declan was ill.

Besides the full time schedule at college he would stay late most night to read books upon books about music, writing songs, and how to be a rock star, at the library, during those long hourly sessions by himself he wrote a full album worth of songs.

He graduated the college with honors all though he was still getting plastered and high most nights and still overdosing on sex when he wasn't staying late at the college. He kept telling himself that he promised not to fuck up his life anymore with all that crap but he still had those nameless guys in his bed sometimes more than one at a time. He wasn't happy that he made his life spiral out of control but one thing that had stopped was his abusive ways or at least he thought so.

Six months after Brendan graduated he moved back to Hollyoaks to restart his life anew. There he started going to a school strictly based around music, there he became friends with a signed gothic band; Kill bitch Die. They wore all black with pale faces and smokey eye makeup and black hair and tons of piercings. They had nasty rude attitudes, which fit Brendan just fine but they seemed kind and friendly with Brendan, whom they had met at the school's Cafeteria one afternoon. The band needed some hard kicking songs so Brenan wrote a few songs for them, it was Brendan's first paying gig as a song writer and he was totally hooked.

Since life with the gothic band; Kill Bitch Die was doing so great he dropped out of the music school and shortly after that he had some time off and money to go to most of Steven Hay's concerts though they weren't the first Steven Hay concert's he had been to.

Brendan was so happy with the way his life was turning out but he still felt empty inside as if there was more out there for him so when the tour with Kill Bitch Die came to an end he went into a local studio and made a demo with some of his friends that he had made while attending music school. He decided to make a cover of the 80's classic "I Love Rock N Roll" which was originally done by the female band Joan Jett and the blackhearts in 1982.

With the help of Brendan's best friend Joel Dexter; who was now a very famous jazz singer, took the copies of the demo to different studios, producers, manager's, and label companies, which included the company that Joel was signed to.

It was a slow start but eventually one company did listen to the demo and called Brendan to let him know that what he had was gold. They made an arrangement to meet up. Once they had their first meeting the producer who wanted to work with Brendan; Rhys Ashworth, told Brendan that he should redo the demo into something genius.

Present time

Brendan sat up on his leather couch and stands up to go back to work on his debut album with the songs he wrote while attending community college and he was overly excited.

6 months later, as Brendan was at home having his first interview thinking back on all those years of hard work and dedication to his craft of discovering who and what he wanted to become and now 'I Love Rock N Roll' was the number one Rock song on the billboard, which left Steven Hay's new song 'Taking Chances' just below his. He couldn't help but smile and rethink all those memories that got him to where he was today. But two things that bugged him were the tabloids spreading lies about him that made him seem like a bad person and the fact that Brendan had yet to meet the lovely and talented young man; Steven Hay, but in his head already knew that he disliked him very much.