Boyband Westlife Claim They Have Simon Cowell to Thank for Latest Album Release
Boyband Westlife star Nicky Byrne has said that the group wouldn’t have released an album this year if it wasn’t for Simon Cowell’s help and encouragement.
Speaking to RT.ie, the singer said of ‘X Factor’ judge Cowell: “What he is with us is… he’s honest.
“What he sees is what he says. But we’ve a good relationship with him, especially this year, even stronger. This is our eleventh year with him.”
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Speaking about how the new album came about, he said: “We had a big meeting with him in August in his house in Beverly Hills… It’s a tiny little house… By the time you walk around it you’re tired!
“It was a great meeting and it was real positive.
“He kind of heard where we were coming from and agreed with it and was on the same page and that’s how we got working on this album.
“Otherwise there wouldn’t have been an album for Westlife this year.”Irish band Westlife are still fuming after BOB GELDOF snubbed them over 2004’s Band Aid II single – because he could have raised more cash for charity if he’d included them.The former Boomtown Rats star left the Flying Without Wings hitmakers off the charity song, dismissing them at the time as “not relevant”.But the four-piece is still reeling from the snub because they believe Geldof was just on a “power trip”.Singer Kian Egan says, “I think that was pretty rich given he only started his international campaigning when he realised the Boomtown Rats weren’t relevant any more.”
