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Not in a controlling way but just that I know what goes out, I’m okay with on every level. Whether it be a big thing or a small thing, I have to truly feel that it’s authentic and it has to sit well with me. I’ve been through things in the past where you just see an image come out and you go, ‘I didn’t approve that.’ We are genuinely a team. We all put our heads together and it’s a genuine meeting of the minds. But at the end of that, it has to be signed off by me. Ron says I’m the CEO of Matt Goss. So, at the end of day, they trust my judgement. I do all my own styling, I really enjoy it and I want to make sure it looks a certain way and feels authentic.
How has the writing of the record come together? I wrote the album. It took me a year. Ron has contributed on some of the bridges and stuff like that but I think he would say that I wrote the album. No other collaborators - it’s just Goss and Fair.
Are there any other surprises on there? We’ve got a really classic London soul record on there. It was funny, I played the record to my driver in London last week - a proper London guy, Pete – and he said to my executive assistant in the car [in a cockney accent] ‘Do you understand what you’ve got ’ere? Do you even understand what you’ve got ’ere?! This is fucking unbelievable mate, do you understand what you’ve got?’ And my American assistant guy was laughing, Pete was so passionate
MATT GOSS ON THE BROS REUNION RUMOURS: ‘THE
FELLAS CAN CALL ME ANYTIME’ HE MIGHT be fast becoming a well-respected name in a solo capacity, but no interview with Matt Goss would be complete without asking about the possibility of a Bros reunion. “We sold millions of records,” Goss tells Music
Week. “Bros really knew how to put on a show. As of this moment I’m officially saying, I’m going to hand it over to the lads. I miss being in a band. I can sing those songs whenever I want to - I've recorded a new version of [When Will I Be Famous?] for this album [Life You Imagine]. “At the end of the day, for me and only me, I
don’t see why we wouldn’t want to ever have a good laugh, go out and do some big shows across the world, have some fun and say farewell. The thing is, the last show we did with Bros was at Wembley Stadium with 70,000 people so it was an incredibly good way to gracefully go out. “But at the same time a lot of people want us
about it. There’s all different influences, from Donny Hathaway to Frank Sinatra, to Elvis, Stevie Wonder and The Police, and Queen - I think you can hear them all.
ABOVE Come on bro: Is a Bros reunion on the horizon?
to do a reunion. I’m just going to leave it to the fellas. But I’m more than happy to just crack on with my solo music and make great music with Ron and just embark on this beautiful new journey. In life you drive looking forward you don’t drive looking in the mirror.”
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