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And despite all their international chart success, the Corrs' roots remain firmly planted in Ireland. Born and raised as a close-knit family in Dundalk, they all played instruments from an early age. In 1990 they appeared in Alan Parkers film The Commitments when Caroline and Andrea were still in school. Before long they were gigging regularly around Dublin. Their break came in 1995 when on their first trip to America, they door-stepped top producer David Foster at a Michael Jackson session and asked for an audition. Foster was sufficiently impressed to agree to produce their first album, Forgiven Not Forgotten. Released in 1996 , it went multi-platinum in Ireland, Australia, Spain, New Zealand, Denmark and the UK and gold most everywhere else around the world.


Their second album, Talk On Corners, appeared in 1997, by which time the Corrs were in huge demand, appearing at a Christmas concert in the Vatican, selling out London's Albert Hall on St Patrick's Day, singing with Pavarotti, opening for the Rolling Stones and performing at the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. Talk On Corners became the biggest selling British album of 1998 and at one point, their first two albums achieved the Beatles-like feat of occupying the top two places in the UK chart. Talk On Corners eventually went platinum or multi-platinum in 15 different territories and gold in countless others.
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