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February 2006
Westlife May
Duet With Michael Jackson
Irish
boy band Westlife said there was a strong
chance they would be recording a duet with
controversial pop star Michael
Jackson.
After
picking up the the Best Irish Pop Act for
the sixth year in a row at the
Meteor
Ireland Music
Awards
in Dublin's Point
Theatre,
Shane Filan said the notion of a duet with
Jackson had come from their manager Louis
Walsh.
"The
idea to do a single with Michael Jackson
came from Louis Walsh who met up with an
agent about three months ago in Germany,"
he said, adding it was a 50/50 chance
whether it would go ahead. It would be
this cool thing to do, we are all big fans
of Michael Jackson.
Filan
said the song would be a ballad rather
than an up-tempo song.
He said
there was also a possibility they would be
performing a duet with Lionel Richie and
they were also discussing doing a song
with Julio Iglesias for his up-coming
album.
"If we
get one we would be very happy because
they are all big names," he
said.
Nicki
Byrne said last year had been a defining
year for the band after Brian McFadden had
left them to go solo. But he said they
went on to have their biggest album in
about four years.
"2005
became this phenomenal year for us," Byrne
said. "If we get the songs right, we can
go on for as long as we want
to.
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