he’s going to rip them to shreds
(laughs) but he really pushed me.
He would say, ‘I’m not going to
do it for you’ because I was like;
why don’t you just write them?
You’re the best songwriter there is.
I didn’t want that though because
I wanted to do my own thing but
he pushed me. He would suggest
different things and then I would
go away and I’d think about it; so
that’s basically how we did it. I was
touring with him a lot so while we
were on the road in the dressing
room, we’d have time and it started
formulating then.”
Working on new music while on
tour is not a new concept by any
means, it’s how most albums get
to the ready for studio mode, but
for Zara this album was different
in more ways than one. This was a
comeback effort of sorts after she
had taken time off to work on her
one-woman play titled, Beneath
My Father’s Sky which had kept
her busy for a period of time.
Like most musicians Zara couldn’t
stay away from creating and after
working with Thompson both on
Watch Zara Phillips talk about her play Beneath My Father’s Sky
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