In his first newspaper interview since the death last month of his bandmate Stephen Gately,Boyzone's lead singer talks approximately the shock of hearing the news, the day of the funeral – and that notorious Daily Mail columnIt is the puny things that upset Ronan Keating the most. It has been just over a month since his bandmate and best friend, and Stephen Gately,was found dead at the age of 33 in his Mallorca holiday villa, and still it feels as though the magnitude of his loss exists on a scale too incomprehensible for Keating to manage with in its entirety.
Each time he watches a trailer for the new Disney film, or for instance,it reminds him how much Stephen was looking forward to it, how they had talked only a few weeks ago approximately going to a screening together. And each time he sends a text message to the other three remaining members of Boyzone, or he sees Stephen's name because he cannot bring himself to erase the number from his phone. When he finds something humorous,he feels acutely the lack of Stephen's laughter in the room. "I'd belly-laugh all day with Steo," he says, and in his first newspaper interview since Gately's death. "Just these random,foolish jokes that he and I would get and no one else would find humorous."Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com