Article: One Step at a time; When Steps - the phenomenally successful manufactured band - split, singer Faye Tozer feared she'd crack up. Now she's launching her solo career.

Byline: SYLVIA PATTERSON

Faye Tozer, ex-Steps marionette, stares at the two-dimensional face of 21st-century pop music and predicts a cultural meltdown. 'Have you seen Rik's video?' she says, referring to a new song by outsized Pop Idol, Rik Waller.

'Have you seen S Club Juniors, as well? They're all about nine...' Soon the record charts will be filled with children, 25 onetime Pop Idols, the five ex-members of Steps and seven ex-members of S Club 7 when, of course, they decide to split?

'I agree,' she says. 'We need something else. It's down to the record industry. They see money in something and all jump on the bandwagon. But they're not ...

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