Ronan Keating was left heartbroken back in 2009, when his best friend and Boyzone band mate Stephen Gately sadly passed away at the age of just 33 whilst on holiday in Majorca.

As well as a number of beautiful tributes to Stephen over the last decade, Ronan has now revealed he’s teamed up with the one and only Robbie Williams on a track which is dedicated to the late boyband star.

Admitting he had ‘tears running down his face’ when hearing the song, which was written by former Take That heartthrob Robbie, Ronan told Goss.ie about how the tribute came about.

He said, “Robbie emailed me out of the blue. It was Stephen’s 10th anniversary, and the boys and I were doing a TV show in London. Robbie saw the show and he emailed me that night.

“He said ‘hey Ro, I have this song I wrote and I wrote it the week Stephen died.’ And I’m standing in my kitchen, listening to this song with tears running down my face.

“I said ‘let’s do something together on it it would be lovely’. And then we worked on this record, it’s a very special song.”

The beautiful  duet from Ronan and Robbie, titled ‘The Big Goodbye’, featured on Ronan’s brand new album ‘Twenty Twenty’, released at the end of July 2020.