Louis Walsh Claims Ronan Keating’s Pop Career Is Dead

Ronan Keating’s former manager Louis Walsh has reignited a bitter feud by bizarrely claiming the Irish singer’s pop career is dead and that he will never have another hit single. The Big Interview.

Old Wounds Opened on The Big Interview

Walsh, 74, managed the pop band Boyzone, which originally launched Keating’s career in 1993 alongside members Stephen Gately, Shane Lynch, Mikey Graham, and Keith Duffy. Walsh continued to manage Keating’s early solo career through the release of memorable hits including Life Is A Rollercoaster and When You Say Nothing At All. The professional relationship fractured due to declining popularity, creative differences, and disputes over musical direction. Walsh claimed that Keating started believing his own publicity over him.

The partnership officially ended in 2009 when Keating fired Walsh as his manager, citing creative differences. Recalling the fallout on The Big Interview, Walsh stated that he did all the work for Boyzone and picked all the songs. Ronan started believing his own publicity then, Walsh said, recounting a conversation at the Four Seasons where Keating allegedly declared he no longer wanted to be a karaoke artist. But that’s what he is! I was picking all the songs – he hasn’t had a hit since. He hasn’t! He’s singing all the old songs now, he doesn’t have a record deal.

Walsh Says Keating Will Never Be a Pop Star

Despite Keating returning to Boyzone—which continues as a four-piece following the 2009 death of band member Stephen Gately due to an undiagnosed heart defect—Walsh insisted the singer’s career as a major recording artist has concluded. It’s over – he’s never going to be a pop star now, Walsh said. He’s never going to have another hit. I’m happy. We had great times together, we had great fun, but it was a bad divorce, and it’s fine – I’m over it.

Walsh added that despite the end of his solo chart viability, Keating will continue working in other capacities. I’d say he’s happy enough in his life, because he’s always gonna be working. He’ll either be a DJ, or he’ll act, or he’ll dance. He can do anything, Walsh said.

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