One Day Like This was the song that gave Elbow their breakthrough hit in 2008 — and as singer Guy Garvey says, it was written because the band’s record company demanded a song they could take to radio.
One Day Like This was a last-minute addition to the album The Seldom Seen Kid, and as Garvey recalls in a new interview with The Guardian: “I got a call from David Joseph, who was head of Universal Music. He said: ‘Congratulations on the album but have you got anything else, to help us out on radio?’
