Patrizio Buanne chats to I Like Music

We went to Abbey Road Studios to record the song and suddenly realised we hadn't asked for permission and needed permission. So my producer was asking for that and thought he wouldn't get any answer, or we'd be ignored or the answer would be no. So we had to chase that through the management and the publishing company. After four months we received a phone call from Robbie's management, saying Robbie listened to my version, he remembers me, sends his regards, thinks it's great and he wishes me good luck.

He remembered me because we met in 2003 already, before I was signed to a record company. I did a concert in Budapest and had already done a lot of touring before I had a career in Europe. He happened to be there, we stayed in the same hotel. I was sitting with my musicians in the bar, having a drink, having a laugh and playing on the piano. Suddenly six musicians came in, with Robbie. And it seems to be a musicians' thing after the concert, to have a drink. So we had a chat and we were singing along together; we had a duet. He said 'you've got a brilliant voice, if I do a Swing When You're Winning 2, I'd like to consider you as a voice partner.' I said 'are you kidding?' and he said, 'No, I can't promise anything, but you sing brilliantly; you have a big future.'
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