. >> nick hornby wrote such novels as "about a boy" and "high fidelity" both hit films. the music itself is almost another character in his fiction work and when he met this character, ben folds, the seeds were planted for a unique transatlantic project. an album called "lonely avenue" with lyrics written by nick hornby and music by nick fold. we asked if this was a match made in artistic heaven or an experiment that looked better on happy? >> ♪ >> for me, it was not unlike any other writing gig. i had to write in a document and think about characters and words and write them down. it wasn't as if i suddenly became a musician in this process. i was paying

nick hornby. >> as europeans, it's a great compliment when americans love our movies.y remaking them. [ laughter ] "we love it so much, we're going to do it again." >> jimmy: exactly. >> the results are often quite wonderful. i haven't seen yours. >> jimmy: i didn't want to watch yours, because i didn't want it to affect my character and steal anything from you. >> i didn't want to watch yours, because it was like somebody cloning your cat or something. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: what? "like somebody cloning your cat"? >> or your child, let's say. i'm sure it's beautiful -- >> jimmy: i did mine for artistic reasons. you just weren't -- >> no, i did mine for the money. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: exactly. but it was weird for me to do it, 'cause we shot ours in boston the year that the red sox did win the world series. and they don't play around. no -- no city would fool around, if they were about to win the world series, they don't want an actor on the field in a baseball hat. >> no, no. i felt equally unwelcomed actually -- mine was a few years in the past when something simil