I t’s a beautiful morning in Keith Urban’s backyard in Nashville and the country star is politely telling me to naff off. “I just don’t want to give you guys a headline about my wife, Ed,” Urban says, his Australian accent unsoftened despite 30 years in Tennessee. It must be galling for a man who has sold 20 million records, sung with Taylor Swift, Dolly Parton and the Rolling Stones and is about to release High , his new album of stonking, hook-filled country-pop, to be constantly asked about his other half.
When that woman is Nicole Kidman, however, it’s kind of inevitable. Not that being married to one of the biggest stars in the world is all bad. Urban was already a success when he started dating Kidman in the summer of 2005, with four Academy of Country Music awards and one of his five albums making the Top Ten in America.
Yet a cynic might point out that since they got together he has won four Grammys and enjoyed all seven of his subsequent albums hitting the Top Ten..
