![]() ![]() We started off by spending a lot of time making our tracks sound like absolutely finished records, which was a mistake in retrospect, because by the time people got round to wanting to use them, things had moved on a bit - so what was a great production when we wrote it was no longer a great production when it got covered by somebody. "Well, basically me and him have been locked in a room for the last year and a half, just writing. We were writing loads of stuff and said then that people would hear it shortly," explains Bill. "The last time we were in SOS, radio edits were the main thing that we were doing, though we always knew that the years of grounding as radio people and musicians/writers/producers would come to the fore one day. The single, co‑written and co‑produced by Padley and his colleague Jeremy Godfrey, was Atomic Kitten's 'Whole Again'. This move has proved so successful that Wise Buddah Music's very first co‑written and co‑produced single crashed straight into the British charts at number one and remained there for four consecutive weeks - an unusual achievement in these volatile times. Then, he was dispensing advice on radio editing and plugging, and putting together a new division of Wise Buddah, the company he co‑founded, to break into the world of pop songwriting and production. It's less than two years since Bill Padley last graced the pages of Sound On Sound. Number one UK hit 'Whole Again' took Atomic Kitten from the girl‑band niche to a universal audience, and made an impressive first single release for co‑writers and co‑producers Bill Padley and Jeremy Godfrey. ![]()
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