Final yr, The Struts’ frontman Luke Spiller revealed in an interview with The Solar that he had written, recorded, and submitted a tune for the 2021 James Bond movie “No Time to Die” and that it featured late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.
The well-known movie franchise, nevertheless, opted to go along with Billie Eilish and Finneas’ monitor as an alternative (a tune which went on to win an Oscar, a Grammy, and a number of different awards).
“I’ve all the time been obsessed with quite a lot of the Bond songs. I had a crack at it, however obtained crushed by Billie,” Spiller instructed the newspaper. “It’s a incredible tune. I referred to as Taylor and we reduce the drums in his house studio.”
Now, in a brand new interview with Lipps Service, Spiller has revealed that the monitor he and Taylor labored on collectively – titled “Angel Like You” – might be featured on his upcoming solo album (which might be launched subsequent month).
“It actually form of stemmed from this loopy, mad, concept that I needed to have a go at making an attempt to get a Bond tune, on the time,” Spiller stated concerning the tune. “And I had these two songs that I’d wrote and I’d recorded them with my producer John Levine. And I simply keep in mind I referred to as up Taylor and I used to be like, ‘You already know, this wants like a fantastic, nice, drum half on it. Would you be down?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah.’ So we went as much as his home and recorded it and whatnot.
“And it simply – It’s superb once I hear it now he actually jumps out of the audio system and all nice singers, musicians, they try this. They possess one thing that jumps by way of the combo and it sounded nice.”
Spiller continued, explaining how these songs impressed him to place out a solo album: “Clearly, I by no means obtained the Bond tune, which was positive. However, extra importantly, like I stated, these had been the 2 songs that I then lived with. After which when covid occurred, and I wasn’t touring, I had, like, quite a lot of time to self-reflect and I listened to those tracks – ‘Satan in Me’ and ‘Angel Like You’ – And I believed to myself like, ‘There’s one thing on this. And, okay, it won’t be proper for the band, nevertheless it actually speaks to me, and it’s actually from the center. What if I maintain doing stuff like this?’”
(Transcribed by AlternativeNation)
