Mika

And there were like movie stars there.

And I remember, and so by that point, anyway, I still didn't get signed.

But by this point I was used to, I even did it.

She made me gate crash Diana Ross's Christmas party.

Yeah.

And I sang to Chaka Khan.

I promise.

Are you fucking serious?

No, I'm totally serious.

But if you learn it from a younger age, you're more likely to do it when you're older.

You might learn it in some ways, but you never really learn it, do you?

After all that training, I find myself in a position where I've written most of the songs on the first album.

And I've been told to go meet this terrifying guy called Lucian Grange.

Lucian Grange now is head of Universal worldwide.

And he's a very big deal.

But he's also infamous because he was a notoriously difficult and frank and expressive person.

executive anyway so i'm sitting there and there's this guy called lucien grange um drinking he's having tea and we're talking and he's like well there's a piano there so all right um was i then use it go on then i'm like all right fine and other all these american ladies are having you know the tea the bouffons and um and i sing i sing yeah i try to be like grace kenneth

They're in the middle of a hotel lobby.

Which is fine if the song is actually, now it's, you know, it's a bit more well-known than it was then.

But then it was just like, you know, just a weird song.