Westlife reveal "Lighthouse" was written by Gary Barlow

Westlife revealed that a "Lighthouse" was written by Gary Barlow is so loved, they betrayed one of his tracks so as to release his new single.

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The group's Mark Feehily 'Beautiful World', a song was written, which was due to be the lead single from their forthcoming 'Greatest Hits' compilation but at the last minute they ditched the song in favour of one given to them by the Take That star and his 'Patience' co-writer John Shanks.

Mark said: "It was literally up until a day ago that we were deciding between 'Lighthouse' and 'Beautiful World' for the first single but they went with 'Lighthouse' in the end.

"I wasn't too gutted though. Once I write the song I've written it. You can't get too attached and just have to hand it over and forget the fact that you've written it."

The group insisted that the rivalry between her and Take That and they think that this "cool" fishing for these songs is to write.

Mark told the Daily Star newspaper: "I love the idea of Gary writing for us and throwing all the rules out the window."

Nicky Byrne added: "Some people might think Gary would be seen as the competition but we don't at all. It's kind of cool he's written for us."