Tim: This is the closing track off his (still brilliant) 2011 album, Reborn, sort of – it’s been re-recorded with some bits made Italian.
Tom: Quick warning: it’s an irritating generic fan-made stock-photo-video, so you might want to load this in a background tab and just listen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5oMeqWBnRo
Tim: Quite something, isn’t it?
Tom: I wouldn’t have agreed with you until that chorus hit – and then it just, well, started to fly. Which is good for something called “Swan Song”, I suppose.
Tim: The original album version was big enough with the sweeping orchestration and just his voice, but the Italian operatic singing added on top makes for a (let’s face it) ridiculous pop song, with lyrics about angels flying by, and I think it’s brilliant.
Tom: It’s a hands-in-the-air track that, frankly, wouldn’t be out of place in the middle of the Eurovision table. That’s a compliment, by the way.
Tim: The only disappointing bit about it that it’s now that much harder to yell along stupidly to the chorus, but I’m happy to make that sacrifice, just about – the original is, after all, still there, but we now have this as well, and it many things to sell it by itself. Erm, bit muddled there, but good. Yes.