Keith Urban Remembers Early-Career 'Playgirl' Photoshoot: 'Luckily, I Play Guitar and Not Harmonica'

Keith Urban embraced his status as a heartthrob early on, even posing A player at the beginning of his career.

In live recording Literally! With Rob Lowe on SiriusXM, country star and host Rob Lowe laughed off the risque photo.

– I didn’t know such a thing existed! Urban, 56, said of the NSFW magazine’s existence, which he Unstable star, 60, replied in disbelief: “Hold on Mr. Urban. We know you’re from Australia.”

Keith Urban on ‘Literally! With Rob Lowe’ in September 2024.

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The “Somebody Like You” singer clarified that he understands the purpose Playboyand Lowe cheekily replied with, “it equals a wobble.”

Urban also shared the simple backstory of the almost forgotten shoot.

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“It was a guy from my record company who said, ‘Hey, you know, we can do this article in A playerand they’re going to make a big, long, beautiful piece on the record,’ and I said, ‘Great,’ and then we’re going to go record. I said, ‘Oh, okay,'” he recalled.

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Instead of dwelling on being blindsided by the photo part, Urban took a different view of the situation, telling Lowe, “Luckily, I play guitar, not harmonica.”

Elsewhere in the interview, the “Blue Ain’t Your Colour” musician reflected on writing love songs and revealed that it’s not all about his A-list wife Nicole Kidman.

“People think everything I write is about her and of course, you know, a lot of it is and a lot of it isn’t,” Urban said.

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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban in November 2023.

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The Australian country star released his self-titled debut in 1991, and a year later moved across the world to Nashville after being inspired by his father’s country records. He released his second self-titled album — the first in America — in 1999. Since then, Urban has won multiple Grammy Awards, countless ACA Awards and even earned a Golden Globe nomination for his original song “For You” featured in An act of courage.

Urban met Kidman in 2005 and married in 2006. The couple has two children, Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret. The Big little lies the actress, 57, shares two children – Bella and Connor – with ex-husband Tom Cruise.

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