Sophie Ellis Bextor delighted her youngsters together with her new single.
The 44-year-old pop star is married to Richard Jones and has Sonny, 19, Package Jones, 16, Ray Jones, 9, Jesse, seven, and four-year-old Mickey Jones with him and admitted it felt “actually particular” to report ‘As Lengthy As I Belong’ – which can function the theme music for Channel 4 and Common Footage’ adaptation of Judith Kerr’s youngsters’s e-book, ‘Mog’s Christmas’ later this yr – as a result of the feline character has been part of their lives for thus lengthy.
She stated: “After I informed my children I’d been requested to sing Mog’s music, they couldn’t actually consider it as a result of Mog has been a part of our world since my eldest was small, and he’s 20 subsequent yr. It feels actually particular.”
The ‘Homicide on the Dancefloor’ hitmaker has teamed up with lyricist Don Black – who’s famous for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber – and composer David Arnold for the mission, who claimed he would have been “aggravated” if anybody else had been chosen to work on the monitor.
He stated: “I’d have been actually aggravated in the event that they’d have requested another person – it takes you again to the times if you have been studying the e-book to your children, so it’s a beautiful factor to be requested to do!”
Don – who has labored on the likes of ‘Tel Me on a Sunday’ and ‘Starlight Specific’ – described the brand new monitor as a “dream mission” for somebody similar to himself, particularly after engaged on the difference of Judith Kerr’s well-known image e-book.
He stated: “We each had such a good time doing ‘The Tiger Who Got here to Tea’ that it was a straightforward resolution to come back again for ‘Mog’ – it’s a dream mission for a lyricist!”
‘As Lengthy As I Belong’ will debut in December together with the movie.