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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/westlife-cowell-picked-our-covers.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Westlife were unsure about the cover versions on their new record" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-westlife-cowell-picked-our-covers.jpg" alt="Westlife were unsure about the cover versions on their new record"/></a></p>
<p>Westlife have admitted they weren&#8217;t sure about the two cover versions on their new album &#8211; but were persuaded by Simon Cowell to keep them on the record.</p>
<p>The Irish boy band deliver their own version of Athlete&#8217;s Chances and The Reason by Hoobastank on their new offering Gravity, on which has the X Factor judge is an executive producer.</p>
<p>Shane Filan said: &#8220;It&#8217;s Simon Cowell&#8217;s doing. Every year he puts a couple of songs out there and says that we should do versions. After we thought we&#8217;d finished the album, we sat down with him and he said &#8216;Guys, trust me, it&#8217;ll be a big song for you&#8217;. We weren&#8217;t sure at first, but we lived with them, and sure enough he was right. It&#8217;s more a trust thing with Simon. He has worked with us and picked each of our No 1 singles, so we want to show that we trust him.&#8221;</p>
<p>The boys added they were nervous about working with producer John Shanks.</p>
<p>Kian Egan confessed: &#8220;I think we were nervous not because we didn&#8217;t think it was going to work, but because of his success rate and who he has worked with before &#8211; Jon Bon Jovi, Take That, Backstreet Boys, Sting, Sheryl Crow, you name them. He&#8217;s a big producer and has had 45 No 1s in America.&#8221;</p>
<p>But Mark Feehily revealed the recording of the album went better than they could have imagined thanks to Shanks.</p>
<p>&#8220;We met John Shanks, got on immediately, and the album was done, from not having one song written to being finished, inside three months,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;We just went for it, and we think it&#8217;s one of the best albums we&#8217;ve ever done. It&#8217;s exciting getting the feedback that&#8217;s coming in now.&#8221;</p>
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