A Queen song brought Robbie Williams and Slash together

In a recent interview Slash has revealed his surprise new project: producing and co-writing the music for a crime drama television series. The series is “The Crow Girl”, adapted from a Nordic-noir novel and set in the city of Bristol.

As a producer, Slash participated in the writing of the script and casting and was present during filming in Bristol. Of this new role, he told the Sunday Times: “Having a name helps get a meeting, but it can overshadow the project. I need people to stop seeing me as the guitarist. It’s great for getting into the around, but it’s harder for people to take you seriously.”

He added that TV executives have asked for selfies with him. “It’s something that happens a lot.”

In the interview he described the process of (co)writing the music for “The Crow Girl”, songs born in various hotel rooms while he was on tour with Guns N’ Roses. He jokingly said, “It keeps me out of trouble.”

Slash (1965) also revealed the anecdote about how he ended up befriending Robbie Williams (1974), with which he shares his place of birth: Stoke-on-Trent (in the county of Staffordshire in the United Kingdom in the north-west of England).

“I was in Los Angeles at the Sunset Marquis Hotel, which is a favorite place for musicians,” he recalled. “I was walking by the pool and this guy shouted at me: ‘Are you Slash? From Stoke! I’m from Stoke too!’ I didn’t know who the fuck he was.”

“But that night I went on stage with this all-star cover band to do Queen songs and someone started singing the lyrics so well. I turned around and it was that fucking guy. And that’s how me and Robbie got together known”.

The Queen song that brought them together was “Fat Bottomed Girls.”