"The Last Goodbye" is a song by British girl group Atomic Kitten. It was written by Daniel Poku, Espen Lind, Mikkel Storleer Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Hallgeir Rustan, and Peter Björklund and recorded by the band for their second album Feels So Good (2002), while production of the song was overseen by Rustan, Eriksen and Hermansen under their under their production moniker Stargate. A mid-paced pop ballad, "The Last Goodbye" is built upon a flute motif and an acoustic guitar loop. Lyrically, the break-up song finds the trio thinking deeply over a relationship with their love interests from whom they parted. The song was released as the third single from the album in November 2002 and became a top-20 hit in Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Turkey, and the Wallonian region of Belgium. In Ireland and the United Kingdom, "The Last Goodbye" was released as a double A-single with the previously unreleased song "Be with You" and peaked at numbers five and two on the Irish and UK Singles Charts, respectively. An accompanying music video was directed by Jake Nava and filmed in Liverpool in October 2002. To further promote "The Last Goodbye", Atomic Kitten also recorded a Spanish version for the song, titled "Algun dia de adios". Background "The Last Goodbye" was written by Norwegian musicians Hallgeir Rustan, Mikkel Storleer Eriksen and Tor Erik Hermansen, a trio of Norwegian musicians who work under the production moniker Stargate, along with frequent collaborators Espen Lind and Peter Björklund and British DJ Daniel "D Mob" Poku: It is one out of two tracks Stargate contributed to parent album Feels So Good (2002), the other being lead single "It's OK!". Recording took place at the Metropolis Studios in London, while mixig was helmed at the StarGate Studios in Norway. Bernt Rune Stray played the guitar. Described by band member Liz McClarnon as a "sort of a slow ballad but still quite funky," "The Last Goodbye" was re-recorded for its single release to include solo parts of each Atomic Kitten member. While the original version features Natasha Hamilton on lead vocals on both the first and second verses, portions of her vocals were replaced on the single version, with McClarnon and Hamilton splitting the first verse and Jenny Frost and Hamilton sharing the second verse. Chart performance In Ireland and the United Kingdom, Virgin Records released "The Last Goodbye" on a double