"write the song I've written it. You can't get too attached and just have to hand it over and forget the fact that you've written it."" The band recently admitted regret of the release of the Gary Barlow-penned song. The music video that premiered on December 15 on their YouTube Channel showcases their success in the last 14 years. It shows Brian McFadden on the footage, which also sees a cameo from the band's manager Louis Walsh. Beautiful World (Westlife song) ""Beautiful World"" is a song by Irish boy band Westlife. It was planned to be the lead single from"
"Westlife Westlife are an Irish pop vocal group, which formed in 1998 in Dublin, disbanded in 2012 and reunited in 2018. They were originally signed by Simon Cowell in the UK, Clive Davis in the US and managed by Louis Walsh and Sonny Takhar. The group currently consists of Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, and Shane Filan. The group rose to fame with their debut international self-titled studio album, ""Westlife"" (1999). Followed by ""Coast to Coast"" (2000), ""World of Our Own"" (2001), ""Unbreakable - The Greatest Hits Vol. 1"" (2002) and ""Turnaround"" (2003) which continued the group's success worldwide."
"in UK music history. ""Obvious"" was released as the final single from the album, charting at No. 3. On 9 March 2004, just three weeks prior to embarking on their fourth world tour, McFadden left the group to spend more time with his family and six months later to release solo music projects. On that day, a press conference was held where all the group's members were present, each giving emotional individual speeches. McFadden's final public performance as part of Westlife was at Newcastle upon Tyne's Powerhouse nightclub on 27 February 2004. McFadden attended the first day of the band's"
"single was a cover of the Beatles song, ""With a Little Help from My Friends"", which also reached the No.1 spot. On 9 March Westlife became a four piece after Brian McFadden decided to leave the band. His final single with the band was ""Obvious"" which peaked at No.3 in February; the remaining members Shane Filan, Mark Feehily, Nicky Byrne, and Kian Egan, went on to further success without McFadden. In April, Eamon achieved the number one spot with a song with more profanities than any other hit single; it stayed at number one for 4 weeks. In another first"
"top 10 in seven European countries and also in Australia and New Zealand. In March 2004, McFadden left the group to spend more time with his family and work on solo projects. He subsequently began a solo career and decided to revert the spelling of his first name back to its original, ""Brian"". Before launching his solo career he co-wrote the song ""If My World Stopped Turning"", which was sung by Ireland's entry Chris Doran in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. Following his departure from Westlife, McFadden signed to major record label, Sony BMG. In September 2004, he released his"
"Markus Feehily Markus Michael Patrick Verdon Feehily (or Mark Feehily, born 28 May 1980) is an Irish singer and songwriter. He was one of the lead singers of the boy band Westlife from 1998 to 2012. He is the highest charting LGBT performer with most number one appearances in the UK Singles Chart (15). He rose to fame as one of the two lead singers of the boy band Westlife. He shared lead vocals with Shane Filan. Before Westlife, Feehily, Filan and Kian Egan were members of the band Six as One and later on renamed as IOYOU, which released"
"over a month later after suffering losses in Ireland's property crash. Sources: APRA, ASCAP, BMI, OSA, SESAC, SOCAN, SUISA Repertoires. In SESAC, Filan uses ""John Francis Filan"" as an alias. Filan has co-written a number of songs including: Support Acts Cancelled Shows Support Acts Support Acts: In 2017-2018 UK and Ireland Love Always Tour, The Chip Shop Boys accompanied Filan as his band mates. Shane Filan Shane Steven Filan (born 5 July 1979) is an Irish singer and songwriter. He was one of the two lead singers and frontman of boy band Westlife during the group's duration from 1998 to"
"Shane Filan Shane Steven Filan (born 5 July 1979) is an Irish singer and songwriter. He was one of the two lead singers and frontman of boy band Westlife during the group's duration from 1998 to 2012 and from 2018 up to the present. Filan has since released three solo albums: ""You and Me"" (2013), ""Right Here"" (2015) and ""Love Always"" (2017). He appeared sixteen times in the UK Singles Chart number-ones making him the most appeared Irish music artist in the British music number-one singles history. Shane Steven Filan was born on 5 July 1979, in Sligo, Ireland. He"
"McFadden from the band. The band originally planned to write a farewell song for Brian, as it was his choice to leave, however, due to tour rehearsals and TV appearances, it was decided ""Obvious"" would be released as a single instead. However, as a tribute, CD2 features a medley of Brian's favourite Westlife songs. Turnaround Tour (2004) Obvious (Westlife song) ""Obvious"" is the third and final single released from Westlife's fourth studio album ""Turnaround"" (2003). It was written by Carl Björsell, Carl Falk, Didrik Thott, and Sebastian Thott under their stage name Pilot, Savan Kotecha, and Andreas Carlsson. It was"
"journey and are part of our family too. We never imagined when we started out in 1998 that 14 years later we would still be recording, touring and having hits together. It has been a dream come true for all of us."" Greatest Hits Tour (Westlife) The Greatest Hits Tour (also known as The Farewell Tour) was the twelfth and final concert tour by Irish boy band, Westlife. The tour, visited the Europe and Asia and supported the group's compilation album, ""Greatest Hits"". After the tour finished, the group disbanded after performing for 14 years. The last show, on 23"
"lead singer in Westlife. Their first album was released in November 1999, titled ""Westlife"". With Westlife, Filan has received twenty-eight platinum discs and sold 55 million records worldwide. On his 2014 book ""My Side of Life"", he revealed that he was the first member of Westlife who had a solo record offer deal back in 2001 but he rejected it as he was scared of the thought of going solo. He also opened up in 2015 interview that he wouldn't go with solo music if he had money. In 2017, he said that his most memorable travel was in 2003"
"their 2004 album ""Allow Us to Be Frank"" peaked at number three. Before Christmas 2008, they wrote a letter to their website saying that 2009 was going to be the most exciting year yet for Westlife. The recording process of their tenth album started on 1 July 2009. Byrne said that there will be many first-time producers and writers for the upcoming album. He also wanted to have collaboration works with Chris Martin of Coldplay who happens to be a big Westlife fan. Westlife worked with JC Chasez, Darren Hayes, Ben Adams, Adrian Bradford, and Guy Chambers for the album"
"Alexandra Burke, Jason Orange, Susan Boyle, Rachel Stevens, JLS, Jamie Cullum, Gloria Estefan, Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams, and V, where the former boyfriend of Feehily was a member named Kevin McDaid. In 2018, the band is reported to have a collaboration with Ed Sheeran for their comeback single. Some of the products that Westlife officially released, aside from their music releases, include video games, Cadbury chocolates, books, calendars, and tour merchandises such as T-shirts, jewellery, stationary, toiletries, dolls, watches, clocks, mugs, duvets, wallpaper, key chains, and posters. Their second studio album ""Coast to Coast"" received additional products mostly in Asia"
"more albums in German, both becoming best-sellers. In late 2003, Klas Anderhaal left the band to resume his career as a studio musician, and was replaced by drummer Johan Norgren, known for his unusual habit of playing barefooted. At the same time, the band announced that they were doing a farewell tour the following year, and that the band would retire for good afterwards. Not long after, on 30 January 2004, the band's guitarist Lasse Westmann died suddenly, only a few weeks after being given a clean bill of health after a lengthy battle with cancer. The treatment had, however,"
"band's firm grew five-fold in 2010 with 35 million euros or 31 million British pounds up to an estimated 50 million euros for four of them in the band. A UK Tour was first officially announced on 18 October 2011, with dates confirmed for May 2012 and it was titled, The Greatest Hits Tour or ""The Farewell Tour"". ""Stereoboard.com"" reported that the tour was sold-out in minutes. On 19 October 2011, Westlife officially announced they were splitting after an album and a tour. During this time, the Official Charts Company compiled the band's chart history which states that other than"
"hard-working music artist and third most hard-working band in the UK by PRS in 2010. Also from the said year ""Billboard"" compiled the top international touring acts worldwide, the group ranked 14th with $5,104,109 estimated net take of tour grosses (assuming a typical 34% artist cut after commissions and expenses). As of 2011, the group is the longest reigning band and second longest reigning number one music act in the 21st century in UK. On 14 March 2011, Westlife confirmed that they had left Cowell after 13 years and his record label Syco Music after nine years. The group cited"
"when his wife stayed at The Hilton in the Maldives for their honeymoon. He added, ""We were in our own private villa on stilts and Sir Paul McCartney was also staying in a villa nearby. I once bumped into him walking along the sandy, tree-lined path to the spa. He took one look at me and started belting out the Westlife cover song Mandy that we’d just released."" On 20 October 2011, Westlife announced that they had decided to split and go their separate ways at the end of their 2012 Farewell Tour. Filan showed interest of being a solo"
"Westminster. However, the picture continued onto the back cover, which showed that in fact they are spraying the fire with petrol, thus feeding it. The band released three more singles on Rough Trade, ""Demystification"" (a psychedelia-influenced track backed with ""Great White Hunter""), ""Dancing"" and ""More Trouble Coming Every Day"", as well ""Le Vache Qui Rit"" (initially intended for a split EP with The Mob for an anti-draft benefit in Belgium). The band split up in late 1982, Steve Lake disaffected with the anarchist music scene in general and the band worn out from touring. Bass player and vocalist Steve Lake"
"and invited to play at the annual Edinburgh Military Tattoo, shrugging off rumours of a split. In September 2003, Westlife released ""Hey Whatever"", which peaked at No. 4 on the UK Charts. Their fourth studio album, ""Turnaround"", was then released in November, earning the group another UK No. 1 album. ""Mandy"", a cover of the Barry Manilow hit, was released in November 2003. Their version won them their third Record of the Year award, in under five years. Their version of ""Mandy"" is also considered the single with the longest leap to the top (from No. 200 to No. 1)"
"an all-time high. Walsh then went back to the boy band formula to create Westlife, which Keating co-managed with Walsh for the first couple of Westlife's number one singles and albums. Westlife were an Irish boy band, formed in Dublin in July 1998. They sold over 50 million records worldwide, a total that included studio albums, singles, video releases, and compilation albums. The group accumulated 14 number-one singles in the United Kingdom. They achieved a total of 26 UK top ten singles over their 14-year career. Despite an earlier bitter feud, Walsh had a public reconciliation with Boyzone, including Ronan"
"to the disappointment of his fans, Paddy cut his long hair and joined a religious order in France. Members of the family continued to perform as soloists or together, or in combination with their partners, as both Jimmy and John married singers. In 2004, there were only seven members remaining: Paddy, who left in 2004, Maite, Angelo, Patricia, Jimmy, Joey and the returning Paul. In 2004 the band released ""Homerun"", which had more rock influences than the other albums, but it was not a success. In that year they started touring again with the Roncalli Circus. Later, in 2005, the"
"Obvious (Westlife song) ""Obvious"" is the third and final single released from Westlife's fourth studio album ""Turnaround"" (2003). It was written by Carl Björsell, Carl Falk, Didrik Thott, and Sebastian Thott under their stage name Pilot, Savan Kotecha, and Andreas Carlsson. It was produced by Jake Schulze, Kristian Lundin, and Karl Engström, with additional production by Quiz & Larossi. It was composed in the traditional verse–chorus form in E major, with Filan, McFadden and Feehily's vocal ranging from the chords of C# to A. ""Obvious"" peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart, but marked the departure of Brian"
"Safe (Westlife song) ""Safe"" is a song by Irish pop group Westlife from their tenth and final studio album ""Gravity"" (2010) and this pop rock ballad was released on 14 November 2010 as the album's lead and only single in the United Kingdom. It was written by John Shanks and James Grundler, and the single version was produced by Shanks, Richard ""Biff"" Stannard, and Ash Howes. This song is the group's last physical single under the tutelage of Simon Cowell, having left Syco and Cowell in March 2011. ""Safe"" debuted at number four in Ireland, becoming their twenty-fifth top ten"
"than any song she's ever done. I mean, she did some stuff on ""Happy"" that's awesome, but this other song she takes it to another level."" The song ""Lost Then Found"" was also co-written by Tedder and Lewis along with Dan Muckala, Jess Cates and Lindy Robbins, and features Tedder's band OneRepublic. Another Tedder song, ""Shadows"", was written with AJ McLean for the Backstreet Boys. After it failed to make the Backstreet Boys' album, Cowell wanted it for Lewis but then decided it better suited Westlife. Justin Timberlake contributed production and backing vocals to several songs, including ""Don't Let Me"
"to score in the match. The Rest of the World team won the game 4–2. In June 1998, Byrne attended an audition for new Irish boyband, where Boyzone manager Louis Walsh approached him to join his new venture, Westlife. Byrne joined Westlife along with Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan and Brian McFadden. Byrne revealed in ""Westlife: Our Story"" that he had wanted to change the name of the band to West High; but the others preferred Westlife. With Westlife, Byrne has had 25 top ten UK singles, 14 of which, were number one, 7 number one albums and has"
"other lads will need to be convinced because they were always very clear that when Brian left it was for good."" but Egan later twitted ""Guys I'm sorry to say but I don't know where these rumours are coming from about a Westlife reunion but it's untrue. Sorry #westlifeforever."" In 2015, 2016, 2017, Walsh expressed that the four-piece band will reunite. He had been in contact with Albert Hammond, Ed Sheeran and James Arthur to create songs for the band. He wants to adopt an edgier side for their comeback. However, on 2016–2017, four years following the split, Filan told"
"Nicky Byrne Nicholas Bernard James Adam McGarry Byrne, Jr. (born 9 October 1978) is an Irish singer, songwriter, radio presenter, dancer, television presenter and former professional footballer, best known for being a member of Irish music band Westlife; he was the band's oldest member. Before his music career, he played professional football, representing Republic of Ireland at several junior levels. Since then he has had a successful TV and radio presenting career. His wife Georgina is the daughter of former Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, and they have twin sons called Rocco Bertie Byrne and Jay Nicky Byrne and a daughter called"
"IOYOU's song ""Together Girl Forever"". For 6 months, Shane's mother, Mae Filan, tried to phone Louis Walsh (who is also the manager of Boyzone). Eventually, she was able to speak to him and talked about her son's band. Three of them were dropped and the other three, Shane, Kian and Mark, joined in finding two more singers for the band. Then they were joined by Nicky Byrne and Brian McFadden to form Westside. The name of the band then changed to Westlife as there were already a number of bands with the name Westside. Filan, along with Feehily, was the"
"2010. The single was first performed live on BBC Radio 2 Weekend Wogan Show. They held it on the world famous BBC Maida Vale Studios in London. Press releases stated, Westlife return with their most heart-stirring offering to date. New single Safe showcases the awesome emotional weight of an outfit at the height of their powers. Recorded in Los Angeles, with legendary producer John Shanks, the soaring ballad features the quartet in their most nakedly raw form. 'I'm crawling on the floor to reach you/I'm a wreck you see' sings band member Mark Feehily as strings swell to head-spinning effect."
"developed a sore ear during a Westlife performance. She lost a further ten per cent of her hearing whilst flying to Spain to appear in the music video of the group's first single ""Spanish Eyes"", released in 2004, despite being warned beforehand that her hearing was at risk if she flew. O'Sullivan spoke of her deafness in an article in the British newspaper ""The Guardian"", shortly before her demise. The newspaper compared her with other deaf musicians, such as Phil Collins, Ozzy Osbourne, Fatboy Slim and Pete Townshend, although noted that their deafness developed ""due"" to their careers. She continued"
"top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart, nine No. 1 Irish hit singles and six No. 1 UK hit singles and five No. 1 albums, with 25 million records sold by 2013 worldwide. They were put together in 1993 by Louis Walsh, who is also known for managing Johnny Logan and Westlife. Before even recording any material, Boyzone made an appearance on RTÉ's ""The Late Late Show"". The group split in 1999. Boyzone made a comeback in 2007, originally with the intention of just touring. The band have sold 2 million records since their return. Gately died on 10"
"Lighthouse (Westlife song) ""Lighthouse"" is a song by Irish boy band Westlife and it is the lead single from their second compilation album ""Greatest Hits"" (2011). The song is their final physical single after their announcement to disband prior to their 2018 reformation. Also the single is the group's first and last physical single not under the tutelage of Simon Cowell, having left Syco and Cowell in March 2011. The song was written by Gary Barlow and John Shanks, and was released on 11 November 2011. A music video was filmed in South Africa and premiered on 20 October 2011."
"Westlife (album) Westlife is the self-titled debut studio album by Irish boy band Westlife. The album was released on 1 November 1999 through RCA. The album spawned the five UK number-one hit singles ""Swear It Again"", ""If I Let You Go"", ""Flying Without Wings"", the double A-side ""I Have a Dream""/""Seasons in the Sun"", and ""Fool Again"". This album broke records like ""Most Entries at Number 1 by a Debuting Act"", ""Only music act to have four number one in UK Singles Chart in only a year"", ""The first and only artist so far to have every single from their"