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Speaker 1: Let Me Tell You a Story.

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Speaker 2: Time Clearsy releases the Story behind the.

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Speaker 1: Song Blue sky Mine Midnight All. Released in February nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety Gosh Timer's Flowed Past as the first single from

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Speaker 1: their seventh studio album, Blue sky Mining. Blue sky Mine

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Speaker 1: picked at number eight on the Australian Singles Chart, number

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Speaker 1: forty seven on the Billboard one hundred and number one

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Speaker 1: on both the Billboard Album Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks charts.

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Speaker 1: The music video won the ARIA ARIA Award for Best

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Speaker 1: Video at the ARIA Music Awards of nineteen ninety one.

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Speaker 1: Most of us realize the link to the with num

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Speaker 1: Asbestos Mine, But what's the whole story behind the song?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, and we'll get to Peter Garrett on at least,

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Speaker 4: but this was a bigger hit in Canada and it

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Speaker 4: wasn't Australia where it was number seven best in New Zealand.

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Speaker 4: Isn't that incredible?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Mid not what a band an unlike no other band

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Speaker 4: with a giant frenetti, outspoken lead singer in Peter Garrett

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Speaker 4: and of course that powerhouse drummer and Rop. But it

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Speaker 4: was Peter Garrett who had this to say about the

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Speaker 4: themes behind the Solfs.

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Speaker 2: By nineteen ninety it was clear that there'd been this

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Speaker 2: incredible scandal and tragedy with workers in asbestos related industries,

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Speaker 2: whether it was mining in particular Blue sky Mine or

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Speaker 2: later on people who were just installing this stuff or

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Speaker 2: treating this stuff in different places and having that information

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Speaker 2: come through and then crafting a song around that. It

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Speaker 2: was really a recognition that working Australians had been badly

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Speaker 2: done by and that we were in danger as a

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Speaker 2: nation of allowing powerful commercial forces, powerful corporate interests to

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Speaker 2: really damage the health of ordinary Australians, working Australians. And

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Speaker 2: that's what Blue sky Mine's about me.

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Speaker 1: So thelioma was the horrible condition that we're all ending

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Speaker 1: up with.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and we heard so much in the news about

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Speaker 4: the story, but there's still people suffering that there was class,

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Speaker 4: actual family members and just hideous.

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Speaker 3: You know that.

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Speaker 4: I like to get the harmonica out of the studio

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Speaker 4: every now, and unfortunately I can't actually play the thing.

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Speaker 4: But Peter Garrett camp and he's Peter talking about playing

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Speaker 4: the methal game.

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Speaker 3: When Blue sky started to come together in the studio,

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Speaker 3: it had this kind of soul feeling. It really felt

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Speaker 3: like I needed a bit of half. Anyone said, come on,

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Speaker 3: come on rock, you know, play some harp. So I

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Speaker 3: dragged it out of the bag and stuck it in

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Speaker 3: my mouth and started to suck and blow and lo

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Speaker 3: and behold. There's not a great deal of the ness,

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Speaker 3: you know. I mean, I just suck as much air in,

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Speaker 3: and I figure, even if I haven't got the notes

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Speaker 3: quite right, it'll be loud enough, you know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, blow took credit.

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Speaker 1: I also have a harmonica, and I also cannot play

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Speaker 1: it because when I tried to learn it, a harmonica

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Speaker 1: virtuoso told me that you need to suck air in

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Speaker 1: and blow it out at the same time. And I said,

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Speaker 1: what now, But how do you do that?

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Speaker 4: Circular breathing or something? Circular?

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Speaker 1: Mean circular? Bro, Well, that's the same thing for like

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Speaker 1: a didjer do.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, I met Pete can do that too,

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Speaker 4: quite possibly. But it wouldn't be the song without that

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Speaker 4: harmonica coming in those com