Then we all went back to Robert Holmes à Court's
party... Michael fainted, but it was a pretend faint so
he could get out of the party. These are behind the
scenes highlights – the people who I think were there
might have been Barry Crocker and Normie Rowe,
Marcia Hines – all these people carrying on like
kids, and I was one of them. We were trying to get to
Michael's floor, all of us trying to get to the 14th
floor, and we just kept going, there were about 20 of
us in the lift – and silly things like that...
Someone who's done a lot and lived a lot... John
Lydon aka Johnny Rotten recently bagged shows
like The Voice and Australia's Got Talent because
he said people are in training to become cruise
singers rather than playing real music.
So I guess that's part of it, and then in terms of work...
my fifth album is a pretty pinnacle kind of thing for
me, I have to say. I'm very proud, and I feel really at
the beginning, I feel like I'm at the beginning of my
career doing this. I say that in a really humble kind of
way because I'm not doing it as a retrospective, even
though the flavour of the music has elements of that.
I'm not rehashing myself, like songs from the gift
shop, or going down that line. I feel like I'm still
creating and doing it from now, from this perspective.
And it's not easy, it probably would have been easier
if I had done my favourite love songs and dined out
on that kind of thing. But that's not me.
Oh, I agree with him wholeheartedly... Dave Grohl
said the same thing, and I'm totally in line with him.
I think there is something special from having
lived a life and not come up in a manufactured
way, so kudos for that... when you look back at
your illustrious career, what have been some of the
special moments?
On television, the heady days of the 80s were pretty
remarkable. That was a time and place – I don't know
if I will ever go back to that kind of excess!
I think I remember them...
It was quite daunting too, I was a kid, in my teens and
early 20s... There were all sorts of moments that you
go wow, I was there for that... I was a telethon singer
for one year when Robert Holmes à Court owned
Channel 7, and he also owned the rights to the Beatles
catalogue. He was doing a deal with Michael
Jackson, who was buying them from him. That was
just bizarre. Michael and I were backstage together, I
was in one corner, being really shy, and he was in the
other – he said hi! I thought there's Michael Jackson!
that was really weird... part of that deal for him to buy
the music was he had to appear on his telethon show.
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