'The world is such a nice thing!': Matt Maltese, the songwriter for pop's A-list … and Shakespeare
After getting dropped by a major label, the Leonard Cohen-influenced south Londoner kept going, and has now won fans in RosalÃa, Sabrina Carpenter and more. But writing for the Bard is the best of all, he says Three years back, Matt Maltese was in a casual co-writing session with some friends. Out of it came a song called Magnolias, a stripped back piano ballad about imagining his own funeral. "I didn't think anyt…