2010-03-03 02:54:10 -

Recording BOYZONE's new album without tragic singer STEPHEN GATELY was "l ike therapy" for bandmate RONAN KEATING - because the boy band could pour their hearts out in songs.
The Irish group was left stunned when Gately died suddenly in Majorca,

Spain in October (09).
They were part way through recording new album Brother at the time, and decided to release the album as soon as possible in honour of Gately.
And Keating confesses the "negative energy" the band was feeling from t heir grief helped make it their best record yet.
He tells British talk show Live From Studio Five, "Events happened last year which almost forced this album so quickly upon us. We would have ta ken a bit more time but we found all that negative energy we had, and wer e feeling, went into the album. It was our way of releasing it.
"We spent most of the end of last year... finishing this album. It was like therapy in a way for us."