Ah this was so heartbreaking to watch.
My daughter was 5 when Love Me For A Reason hit the big time, and she immediately became a fan. I had been a massive Osmond's fan from age 8-16 and loved that they had re-released the song with Boyzone singing it.
I encouraged my daughter with her fanaticism, she saw her first BZ concert in Manchester with me and her dad in 1997, then her friend and her mum accompanied us to the one a year later after her dad and I had split up.
I don't think we went to the 1999 farewell tour concerts, however we did go to see Ronan and also attended The Games when Shane Lynch took part. My daughter, Becki, hung around outside of Manchester Granada studio waiting for a glimpse of Keith Duffy, and Steo, her favourite, we went to see in Cinderella in Kent, and to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in London, Becki and other fans used to meet once a year in Hyde Park in the noughties to have their Steo Picnics, and Steo actually attended some of them with his boyfriend, joining in the quizzes and games they played. He signed pictures, greetings cards and records to give to fans within that gathering, as prizes sometimes, and even signed a Get Well Soon card for Becki after surgery.
It was so lovely to meet him at least 4 or 5 times in my case, and more times for my daughter, he was such a loving, gentle and kind man.
I appreciated the documentary very much, and agree that there was so much more info on each band member that could've been included. Louis Walsh came across so badly, my opinion of him has gone right down as I really wasn't quite aware of how badly he'd treated them. It seems obvious that he manipulated Ronan so that he became the scapegoat when they split up the first time, and caused so much tension from separating him from the others to do more TV presenting work and such.
I cried when I watched the footage as they were splitting up, and was in tears again throughout almost all of the 3rd episode when they were talking about poor Steo and his passing. I remember watching his Mass and funeral on Sky TV when it was broadcast live, again my daughter was so devastated when he died.
I'm sorry this is such a long post, but both my daughter and I have carried on loving Boyzone, we attended their concerts in 2007 and 2008, we attended a special celebrity concert in London that was held as a tribute to Stephen after he died, which Boyzone attended, and we later watched their last shows and bought their later albums before finally splitting for good in 2019, it's so tragic that so much Ill feeling has built up. I was sad that Mikey didn't feel able to meet up with the others, but I was glad that we were able to hear his side of their story too.