Michael Bublé joins Magic breakfast to talk about his new album and to celebrate Elton John’s 75th Birthday
Canadian Superstar and four-time Grammy winner Michael Bublé joined the Magic Radio Breakfast Presenter Harriet Scott to talk about his new album ‘Higher’ and celebrate Elton John’s birthday with a whole segment dedicated to the music legend.
Michael told Magic Radio Breakfast about his relationship with Elton John, who he called ‘a beautiful man’. The star revealed that when his oldest son Noah was battling liver cancer Elton would always check up on Michael and Noah “I didn’t know him and he called me every single Sunday, every single Sunday he would call to tell me that him and David were praying for me and that they loved us and would send toys. That’s who he is, that’s who he really is, so Happy Birthday Sir Elton, thank you.”
To mark the coming of their fourth child and to declare his love for his wife, Bublé told Harriet Scott he marked the occasion with the music video of his song ‘I’ll Never Not Love You’, speaking about it the star said “she is my best friend…so 14 years ago, I wrote ‘Haven’t Met You Yet’ for my wife, I asked her to be in the video…here we are 14 years later and I got to make the sequel which nobody knew before they saw the video. It was the sequel, and of course the easter egg is at the end. It was our way of telling people that we are expecting another.”
The singer also chatted to Magic Radio Breakfast Presenter Harriet Scott about his favourite song on the new album and how he balances a busy working life with his family.
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Further select quotes can be found below:
Talking about his song ‘I’ll Never Not Love You’ “I was so excited. I was in my boxer shorts in my kitchen, it was 11pm. We got the demo and I danced till two in the morning in my kitchen… All I could do was fantasise about this moment when the world would get to hear it, and I would get to share it with everyone. I thought you know it has been a long time since I’ve had a nice big hit…you know in the whole world, and it is nice to be back even though I wasn’t really gone.”
Talking about how he copes being away from his family “I try to Zoom with them, it’s so sweet actually. You know what the best ever is, we put the computer on, and we go to sleep together, and my kids are really worried that somehow, we’ll disconnect them later, or I’ll hang up, but I don’t. There’s something really cosy about…it is tough to be away from them especially at this age.”
On his time during the pandemic “During the pandemic, I mean obviously I hurt for a lot of vulnerable people. But for me…I didn’t miss anything. I didn’t miss a birthday, or a first word or a walk or any of that…I became probably one of the greatest bum wipers who ever lived.”
On how Disney almost ended his marriage “We went to the Disney’s. That’s what we did, we went Disney, Disney, Disney. Until one point where we fought so bad, that my wife said, “we have made a mistake, we must annul this marriage.” And I said, “well I can’t stand you either” and so we walked away from each other, and we said we are going to walk away, and we are going to think about things. We came back and we said…you know what, maybe we will just try, and we will just keep trying, and 15 years, we had four children.”
