Did you or Graham dream you would
have so much success together when
you started out?
No. I don’t think anyone could possibly
envision that. We thought we would
probably be good for three or four
years in Australia and that would be
the end of it. But as fate would have
it we got one of our songs released
worldwide in 1980, Lost in Love, and
the rest of it was ‘off to the races’ after
that, as they say.
Tell me about your relationship with
Graham Russell.
You know he’s my best friend and
neither of us has brothers so kinda
figure that we were you know the brothers
in arms. He writes the songs; I can’t write
songs. And he doesn’t want to be the lead
singer so there’s no conflict there, and
really we don’t see much of each other
when we’re not on the road or in the
studio. He lives in Utah and I’m in georgia
so when you get back to see each other to
play or perform in the studio it’s always a
cool thing because you never get sick of
each other. We have a great relationship,
very close. We’ve been through probably
four or five careers over the years ups and
downs, as you say. But he’s been the one
- there’s been a few occasions where I’ve
been, in the early days when things weren’t
going very well, I said ‘You know I don’t
know if we can keep doing this’ and he was
always the one to say ‘No no no we have
the talent, we have the songs we’ve just go
to stick with it.’ And so now I don’t second
guess anything he thinks is the right
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thing to do because he’s been right every
time. And we’ve just enjoyed this career
tremendously. You know, we’re still the
best of friends. We still have a great time on
stage and we look forward to making it 50
years. If we can that would be great.
What is life on the road like for Air Supply?
Well the performing parts always fantastic
even if we do multiple dates at one place
from time to time. And it’s always different
because the audience is different from each
night. That part of the thing I love to death,
but as you well know traveling now is just a
giant pain. It’s necessary, but to have to go
through security everywhere and there’s
always delays always cancellations always
going on to affect your travel. I actually like
staying in hotels, if they’re nice. So I like
somebody to make my bed every day and
bring me food if I need it, and so I enjoy it. I
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