Boyzone star Ronan Keating has said hearing Robbie Williams’ song about his late bandmate Stephen Gately left him with “tears coming down my face”.
The track, called The Big Goodbye, appears on Keating’s new album, Twenty Twenty, as a duet between the two pop singers. Gately died as a result of an undiagnosed heart condition at the age of 33 in 2009.
Speaking on Sunday Brunch, Keating said: “Last October was Stephen Gately’s 10-year anniversary and the boys and I were out celebrating Stephen’s life and honouring him. “I got home that night and there was an email from Rob saying: ‘I’ve seen you boys on the telly and I forgot that I wrote this song 10 years ago about Steo and I put it away’. “I’m standing in the kitchen with tears coming down
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