Gorillaz

Damon Albarn has revealed that Gorillaz' forthcoming collaboration with Stevie Nicks was originally meant to sung by Julian Casablancas.

[pre-order here](http://gorill.az/crackerislandalbum)). Last month, Nicks revealed that her “one demand” to Gorillaz was to feature in the official ‘Oil’ music video. However, he’d initially set his sights on [ The Strokes](https://www.nme.com/artists/the-strokes)‘ frontman as a guest vocalist. In a way, one of the nice reasons for working with people from so many different eras is that it’s not a numbers game. And the whole song is… It’ll also contain Gorillaz’ recent [Tame Impala](https://www.nme.com/artists/tame-impala) team-up, [‘New Gold’](https://www.nme.com/news/music/gorillaz-announce-new-album-cracker-island-release-new-gold-with-tame-impala-and-bootie-brown-3301856), as well as guest spots from the likes of [Bad Bunny](https://www.nme.com/artists/bad-bunny), [Beck ](https://www.nme.com/artists/beck)and [Thundercat](https://www.nme.com/artists/thundercat). This non-generic collaboration.” “I can’t wait till it comes out because I’m so proud of it,” she said. “Not for any [reason], just logistically and everything. And so, I don’t know. He continued: “I was amazed when Greg Kurstin said, ‘I can get Stevie Nicks’. [Damon Albarn](https://www.nme.com/artists/damon-albarn) has revealed that [Gorillaz](https://www.nme.com/artists/gorillaz)‘ forthcoming collaboration with [Stevie Nicks](https://www.nme.com/artists/stevie-nicks) was originally meant to be sung by [Julian Casablancas](https://www.nme.com/artists/julian-casablancas).