Duncan James has jokingly hit out at Mariah Carey for doing a duet with Westlife as a substitute of Blue.
Duncan James has jokingly hit out at Mariah Carey for doing a duet with Westlife as a substitute of Blue
The singer, 47, is celebrating the Blue marking 25 years in music with the discharge of their seventh studio album Reflections, and has now recalled how he as soon as discovered himself ingesting vodka photographs with Mariah on a flight.
He advised The Solar the prospect assembly with the U.S. star happened whereas travelling from Los Angeles to London on the top of Blue’s chart success.
Duncan mentioned: “I used to be sitting in first-class on a flight from LA to London and Mariah Carey was reverse me. “Through the flight, her assistant got here as much as me and mentioned: ‘Mariah wish to have a drink with you on the bar’.
“I used to be like, ‘Holy f***’.
“I ended up doing photographs of vodka together with her on the bar whereas she was singing in my ear.
“I believed, ‘I’ve made it’. That was the most effective second in my entire profession.
“She knew who Blue was too. However then she did a duet with Westlife as a substitute of us. It’s like, ‘Cheers, Mariah’.”
Blue – made up of Duncan, Lee Ryan, Antony Costa and Simon Webbe – did find yourself collaborating with main names together with Sir Elton John, on Sorry Appears to Be the Hardest Phrase, and Stevie Marvel on their cowl of Signed, Sealed, Delivered.
Simon added to The Solar: “One minute I used to be signing on, then you definitely’re getting nods from legends like Elton John. We bought a tour of his place and he advised us All Rise was the most effective album of that 12 months.”
Duncan mentioned: “We went into his walk-in wardrobe and we noticed his glasses – rails and rails of them. I used to be like, ‘F****** hell that is good, we’re having a proper outdated nostril round Elton’s home’.”
Blue’s new single One Final Time was written by Duncan in reminiscence of his greatest good friend Terry John, who died out of the blue final 12 months.
Duncan defined: “It was nearly like Terry was channelling the melody and the One Final Time lyric into my head.
“That is my love letter to Terry and I’m so completely happy that the boys liked the music. We’re all at an age now the place we’ve got misplaced any person actually near us.
“We will all relate to the lyrics on this music as a result of they’re so highly effective.”
Blue are set to tour Asia later this 12 months earlier than returning to the UK for 17 dates starting in Oxford on 6 April, adopted by reveals throughout Europe.
Simon mentioned: “We’re 4 regular boys from 4 completely different corners of the U.Okay. and in some way we’ve got been put collectively to make this band. And we haven’t simply had hits within the U.Okay. – we’ve got gone worldwide.”
