If you get Top Of The Pops Magazine then you'll be familiar with their groovy little stories with 911 as these superheroes. Well in the July 1998 issue they put 911 to the test to see if they really are superheroes.

Me & 911

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The Serious Bit
Right boys... ever done anything vaguely heroic?
Lee: Yes. Survived my illness.
Spike: I once saved a spider - how's that?!

Ah, so you're not scared of creepy crawlies?
Spike: I hate 'em but one of me mates was gonna kill this spider so I trapped it in a glass and chucked it out the window.
Lee: I once saved a bird with a broken wing. Thing is, I didn't know it was hurt so I picked it up and threw it, thinking it would fly. It smacked its head on the floor.

Jimmy, you're keeping very quiet...
Jimmy: I was just remembering the time when we all did something very heroic at Heathrow airport. There was a woman crying at the front desk cos her flight to India had been cancelled.
Spike: Oh yeah! She wanted to visit her dying mother and had to get a flight that night so we offered to lend her our car to take her to Manchester airport.

Jimmy, you must have saved a few Lives as a Lifeguard?
Spike: He saved our career. We wouldn't be here without him!
Jimmy: Too right! Erm, I did save quite a few lives actually. Two in the deep end, one in the shallow end...

How did that feel?
Jimmy: Pretty normal. That's what you're trained to do so you tend to be quite automatic about it.

So you're a true real Life hero?
Jimmy: Well, unfortunately I had one life-saving attempt which went very wrong. I tried to resuscitate the guy and I was unsuccessful. I was depressed for days afterwards.

Did you go over and over the situation in your head?
Jimmy: Yeah, but there was nothing more I could have done. I kept thinking, 'If only I'd been on that side of the pool two minutes earlier instead of walking to the other end, I could have saved the guy's life.' But you can't go round thinking like that, it’d do your head in.
Spike: It was fate.
Lee: (In mock dreamy voice.)
Like us three getting together - that was fate!
Spike: Bleurgh! Pack it in, I'm eating my lunch!

Have you been heroes to any 911 fans?
Lee: Well. I don't know about heroes but I do have a really sad story about a fan. At Christmas I went to visit a dying girl and she told me how excited she was about coming to see our tour the following March but she died in January. It was terrible.

Everyone sees your happy pop side. How do you deal with awful situations Like that?
Spike: It’s really depressing. I knew this fan in Warrington who only had a short while to live. I talked to her every single day and visited when I could. Then, one day on the tour, I phoned her before we went on stage and she sounded really happy. An hour later I had a call to say she'd died. I was gutted.

So is it part of your pop star job to do charity work and visit fans in hospital?
Lee: No, it's something that we do because we want to do it.
Spike: The nurses at Warrington hospital invited me in at Christmas, so along I went with tots of pressies only to find they'd discharged all the patients the day before! They had me signing loads of autographs for their nieces.

Is there anything that you're scared of?
Lee: (Going all mystical.)
The plank of death.
Spike: What?!
Jimmy: (To Lee.) You're a plank!
Lee: That's why I hate flying so much, You don't have any control over it.
Spike: (To Lee.) But on telly they reckoned people who've had near-death experiences aren't scared of dying.
Lee: I think it made me more scared. There are so many things in life I wanna do. I've been given another chance and I can't risk losing that.

So you're not the risk-taking type of heroes?
Jimmy: Oh no, we're risk-takers all right. The kind of somersaults Spike and I do are really dangerous.
Spike: There are times when the lights are dead low and we don't know if we're gonna hit them or not, but we just go for it.

Verdict So Far:
Very promising. We're getting the superhero capes measured up right now.

The Silly Bit
OK, now for some superhero dilemmas...

An old lady’s cat is stuck up a tree, but you're wearing your shiny new slacks. Do you risk a pant-splitting episode or do you leave the kitty stranded?
Spike: I'd get a saw and chop the tree down.
Jimmy: Nah, you'd squash the poor thing. I'd put the quality of my pants to the test and shimmy up the tree.
Lee: I'd take my pants off and race up the tree.
Spike: Yeah, me too. I enjoy taking me pants off.

A fan with a very bad cold faints at your feet during a signing. Do you dive in to give her the kiss of Life or do you offer her some Tunes when she finally comes round?
Spike: I'd be straight in there for the old kiss, flu or no flu.
Jimmy: I've forgotten what it's like to snog. It's been a while.
Lee: You're not doing it for the good of the girl though, are you? You're doing it for yourself.
Jimmy: Of course. I'd use my tongue too if she was really struggling.

You're boogying away at Peter Andre's boat party. Suddenly Shaznay All Saint shimmies too close to the edge and topples into the water.
Spike: (Sarcastically.) That's a bit of a shame.
Lee: Hmm. She needs saving but the thing is, you've just had your hair blow-dried and set.
Spike: I'd chuck the life ring in, I suppose.
Lee: Don't be nice to her.
Spike: No, I'm not saying I'd dive in or anything.
Lee: I'd just stand there and laugh.

Do we detect a Little tension here?
Lee: No! I can't swim anyway so what more could I do? I'd shout, 'Oooh Help! Help! Someone's drowning!'
Spike: I'd dive in. You never know, she might snog me afterwards!

You're strolling past Aqua's dressing room when you hear a scream. Mrs Aqua is standing on a chair quaking in fear as a huge, highly-poisonous spider scuttles towards her. What do you do?
Spike: I'd stand on it. And if it made a leap for me ankle I'd get me bat out and squash it. Crack it one on the nose. Then I'd ask Lene for a snog.
Lee: I think I'd get her to sing Barbie Girl. That'd scare it off!
Jimmy: I'd take a run up, dive across the room and join her on the chair. Then, cos I'd be on top of her, I'd forget all about the spider and give her the kiss of life.

Young Zac Hanson is being bullied by big burly rocker Jon Bon Jovi. He's calling Zac a Little girls' blouse. Do you step in and save your pop pal?
Spike: I'd definitely step in and give Jon a talking to.
Jimmy: Me too. I'd say, 'Oi, you used to look like him once. Just cos you've cut your hair you reckon you can push everyone around. Well, you can't!'
Lee: I'd grab Zac's drumsticks and whack Jon Bon on the head. 'Pick on someone your own size, mate!'

The Final Verdict:
OK boys, you've proved yourself be true superhero material...

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