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In the wake of Stephen Gately's sudden death on October 10, his bandmates in Boyzone plan to record a tribute album for him. "We have decided that what we do now is we're going to make the next album for Stephen," Ronan Keating recently opened up.

"We want to stick together because we find comfort in being together at the moment," he continued. "We have a couple of songs with Stephen's vocal on it so that's a saving grace. Thank God we have that, that's very important to all of us and we know the fans would really appreciate that too."

Boyzone have been talking about a new album before Stephen was found dead at his apartment in Majorca, Spain and the late singer was very excited about it. "He actually texted me just before he went out on the night he died and he said he couldn't wait to get started. I had never seen Stephen so full of life, so happy, so healthy and just so alive," Ronan told Sky News.

"That's what's making his death all the harder for us. We are spending a lot of time sticking together because it is helping us to deal with our grief."