Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody has said the band’s latest single with Kylie Minogue was “always destined” to become a collaboration after he originally wrote it with the Australian singer in mind.
Lightbody said he had written several songs in the hope of getting one to Minogue after hearing she was looking for new material.
“I’m a long-term fan, who isn’t, of Kylie?” he said.
“When I heard that Kylie was looking for a song, I wrote her a bunch, but then I couldn’t get them to her.”
The band instead decided to record one of the songs themselves, although Lightbody said it remained known internally as “Kylie” throughout the recording process.
“I wrote the songs and they were all just called Kylie 1, Kylie 2, Kylie 3,” he said.
However, after completing the track, he felt something was missing, “and that was obviously Kylie”.
The band eventually succeeded in sending the song to Minogue, who agreed to record vocals for it.
