Rock star Guy Garvey reveals he was inspired to write smash hit in the BATH

Rock star Guy Garvey was inspired to write smash hit 'One Day Like This' in the bath, where he came up with the opening lines. The song went Double Platinum in the UK, spent more weeks in the charts than any other Elbow record and won the Ivor Novello Award.

The proud Mancunian and son Jack - who is already writing songs at just four years old - still come up with lyrics in the bath. "I radiate deep satisfaction and love for him whenever he does that," said Guy, 47, who started out with Elbow after meeting at college in Manchester more than 30 years ago.

"Jack loves 'School of Rock' on TV - he recognised the voices of Louis Armstrong and Robert Plant. We write songs, he and I, in the bath. I wrote 'One Day Like This' in the bath. I have the recording somewhere.

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"That one came from the rhythm, 'bomb bomb, ting ting', then the line 'Blinking in the morning sun'." Band members, brothers Craig and Mark Potter helped him. "I took it to Craig and Mark and we grew it really quickly, in about two days."

Guy, a visiting professor in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, played the audio files of the song for his debut lecture. He added: "It showed where it nearly went, and it brought the house down, it just sounds so wrong when you know a song so well."

The band's love of anthems grew from the first time an audience sang their lyrics in Brighton, when they played to a crowd of 300. Two years later, Guy invited tens of thousands at the Glastonbury festival to sing along with them.

Around 4,000 of them were credited on their next album sleeve. Guy recalled: "We came off for the encore in Brighton, but the only thing we talked about was