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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. It's hard to believe their

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Speaker 1: supply has been delivering classic hits for fifty years, some

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Speaker 1: of the most beautiful and enduring songs in the last

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Speaker 1: fifty years. So the guys are heading back to celebrate

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Speaker 1: where it all began, right here in Australia. Russell Hitchcock, Hello, how.

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Speaker 2: Are you doing good?

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Speaker 3: So well fift We thought Graham would be there as well, Russell,

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Speaker 3: don't tell me there's been trouble.

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Speaker 2: You know. He's on his way from the airport. There's

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Speaker 2: a really bad storm in Los Angeles right now, so

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Speaker 2: he may show up before we finish this.

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Speaker 3: He's doing a bit of an ace freely whenever you

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Speaker 3: talk to kiss this is what would.

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Speaker 1: Happen as in traffic.

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Speaker 3: Aces are well, he's into something, but you're here, So.

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Speaker 1: Russell, take us back to It all began with you

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Speaker 1: two because you met during rehearsals for Jesus Christ Superstar.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we met on May twelfth, nineteen seventy five, actually,

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Speaker 2: and we were there was everybody in the chorus, of course,

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Speaker 2: but we had no experience in theater or anything like that,

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Speaker 2: so we were very nervous and very green. But the

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Speaker 2: minute that we met, we clicked one of those magic

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Speaker 2: moments that very few people get to have in their lives.

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Speaker 2: That's been one of them for me. And it was

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Speaker 2: only about a week after we first met each other

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Speaker 2: we started to work together. And of course by the

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Speaker 2: time Superstar had ended about eighteen months later, we'd had

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Speaker 2: air Supply formed Love and Other Bruises was a big hit,

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Speaker 2: and you know, we're off and running kind of, and

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Speaker 2: I guess we were a bit of an overnight success

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Speaker 2: because nobody really knew who we were. But you know,

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Speaker 2: that was very heavy days for us in a great experience.

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Speaker 3: And also the resurgence of air supply in twenty eighteen

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Speaker 3: in Deadpool, that scene when your song just comes on,

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Speaker 3: it is just so great.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know those things are, I mean, our manager

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Speaker 2: are very sequel. He kind of you know, finds that

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Speaker 2: stuff for us and we never really know when they're

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Speaker 2: coming out, because you know, he either tells us and

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Speaker 2: we forget or whatever. But that was a very pleasant surprise.

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Speaker 2: And also my daughter was at the movies watching Mister

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Speaker 2: and Missus Smith some years ago and Brad Pitt saying

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Speaker 2: making love it and nothing at all. She called me

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Speaker 2: from the theer and she goes dad.

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Speaker 3: That must be a big deal.

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Speaker 2: There was another series, another series that was quite violent,

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Speaker 2: and two or three guys were beating the crap out

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Speaker 2: of some other guy and they were playing even the

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Speaker 2: Knights are Better in the back.

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Speaker 1: Because everyone knows, you know, one air supply song, but

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Speaker 1: we just played like six or seven of them a

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Speaker 1: bit earlier in a montage. There are so many great songs.

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Speaker 1: You had hit after hit after hit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we did in the in the early eighties, from

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Speaker 2: Lost in Love being released worldwide, we had I think

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Speaker 2: seven top five songs back to back, which was quite

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Speaker 2: unheard of in those days, apart from maybe the Beatles

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Speaker 2: and Michael Jackson, which was heady company at the time.

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Speaker 2: Of course, we had a great run, great break and

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Speaker 2: fortunately the fans that supported us back then. I think

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Speaker 2: we have four generations coming to see us from then

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Speaker 2: until today. So we're very happy with our career and

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Speaker 2: fifty years on the road is quite an achievement and

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Speaker 2: we're so looking forward to going back to OZ to

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Speaker 2: celebrate that landmark.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is kind of, as you say, where it

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Speaker 1: all began. Do you have any crazy memories of those days?

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Speaker 1: The Countdown years all of that. How crazy did it get?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we were a fixture on Countdown and blessed her Molly,

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Speaker 2: he was one of our biggest supporters in the day,

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Speaker 2: went to bat for us when nobody else wanted to listen.

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Speaker 2: Donnie Sutherland at Sounds, Ray Burgers at Flashes. You know,

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Speaker 2: just such great support from from the TV media back then.

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Speaker 2: And of course we wouldn't have had the career in

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Speaker 2: Australia and certainly Overseas if it wasn't for the support

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Speaker 2: from those guys in the early days.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the outfits that you wore, like you know,

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Speaker 3: the kung Fu outfits on that particular record cover.

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Speaker 2: We've all got.

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Speaker 3: It was like kung Fu outfits with the r and

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Speaker 3: Williams boots. I didn't know what you're going to be.

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Speaker 2: We played, We played a gig in Sydney called Oh

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Speaker 2: I can't remember of course, but it was We were

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Speaker 2: built with a It was a punk night, a midnight

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Speaker 2: Oil Rats banded all these other bands that you know,

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Speaker 2: full on hardcore and we came on in our white

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Speaker 2: suits and we got so much stuff thrown at us

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Speaker 2: and a lot of obscenities yielded us too, but we

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Speaker 2: you know, at that point we thought, you know, what

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Speaker 2: doesn't kill you makes a stronger kind of thing. But

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Speaker 2: we thought it was funny, and unfortunately the stage was

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Speaker 2: so high they couldn't get to us.

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Speaker 1: Look at you filling stadiums all around there, and look.

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Speaker 3: At you now you're still doing it and we're so

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Speaker 3: happy to see your tickets go and sale next Friday.

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Speaker 3: For more information, head to David Roy Williams dot com.

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Speaker 3: Russell say hello to Graham for us and great to

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Speaker 3: catch up with you.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you guys for having us and we look

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Speaker 2: forward to seeing you in Australia. And if you come

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Speaker 2: and make the show, I'll be sure and come backstage

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Speaker 2: and see we'd love to see you.

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Speaker 1: Can't wait.

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Speaker 3: Thanks all, good idea, Thank you for joining us. There,

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Speaker 3: he goes Russell Hitchcock.

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Speaker 2: There