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Speaker 1: Let Me Tell You a Story.

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Speaker 2: Now on Time Clearsy releases the story behind the song

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Speaker 2: solid Rock, written by Shane Howard for his band go Anna,

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Speaker 2: was released in September nineteen eighty two as the lead

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Speaker 2: single from the band's debut studio album Spirit of Place.

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Speaker 3: Solid Rock peaked at number three on the Australian Kent

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Speaker 3: Music Reports a report at the nineteen eighty two Countdown Awards,

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Speaker 3: solid Rock won Best Debut Single. In twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 3: MTV Classic ranked the song tenth during a special Top

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Speaker 3: one hundred Big in the eighties Countdown ten.

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Speaker 4: Very successful, wasn't it?

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Speaker 3: That's very high up on that countdown? The title says

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Speaker 3: a lot, But what's the whole story?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 4: Well, look they feature did redo from a guy called

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Speaker 4: Billy Indo who was part of No Fixed Address, who

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Speaker 4: was the indigenous rock reggae band from parts of South Australia.

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Speaker 4: But Shane Howard tells the story and it included a

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Speaker 4: bit of a life changing journey for it.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't reive about what was going on in this country

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Speaker 1: and how difficult it was for some people, and how

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Speaker 1: incredibly difficult it was for Aboriginal people. You know, I

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Speaker 1: was busking in you know, in the park in Brisbane

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Speaker 1: with Aboriginal fellas you know, and trading songs on trains

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Speaker 1: and everywhere I went, and growing up road did in

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Speaker 1: southwest Victoria. Original people were a factor of life, and

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Speaker 1: we knew that they were discriminated against. We knew that

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Speaker 1: their lot was a hard one. But I really wanted

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Speaker 1: to go. In eighty one, I got run down at

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Speaker 1: three sick and the doctor said you need a break,

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Speaker 1: and I went. I always wanted to go to laro

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Speaker 1: On to see was Aboriginal culture still alive? Was still practice?

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Speaker 1: Was the language spoken? Where a dancers still danced? Was

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Speaker 1: it still a thing? And I went to laru On

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Speaker 1: again a little teens and in those days there was

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Speaker 1: no ula resort. It was very basic and I got

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Speaker 1: to touch something very rare and very precious, and I

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Speaker 1: got to have a remarkable experience. It was a long

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Speaker 1: way back to the camp to walk back in the

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Speaker 1: at they said, look camp tonight, so I need. I'm

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Speaker 1: camping out under the stars in that country with the

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Speaker 1: huge sworded form was the fullman and rising out of

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Speaker 1: the back the stars as bright as crystal. Come a

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Speaker 1: little bit closer in that country because it's so clear

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Speaker 1: and the soft washed pinjar of voices across the country.

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Speaker 1: It impacted on me powerfully. I realized that I was

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Speaker 1: in someone else's country and that song slow Rock grew

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Speaker 1: out of that experience, really, and it was a It

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Speaker 1: was a powerful time. I got to see a really

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Speaker 1: there was a deep intelligence work, a deep cultural history,

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Speaker 1: something very precious. It deserved to be honored and not

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Speaker 1: discriminated against.

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Speaker 4: The feeling the trip changed him forever, don't you?

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Speaker 3: I absolutely, I wondered again, must post back then again?

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Speaker 3: Was just the train that went there, not the luxury

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Speaker 3: you orient.

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Speaker 4: Express experience what it is today, pretty basic, rudimentary, and

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Speaker 4: that spirit of Place album from which the album came

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Speaker 4: was one of the most successful Bossie debut albums ever

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Speaker 4: at that point in time. It was absolutely surpassed lad

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Speaker 4: by a frog Stomp from Silver Chair and Get Born

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Speaker 4: from Jet of course, which solved millions. But it was

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Speaker 4: a beauty and it was a real point in time,

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Speaker 4: wasn't it really, Goanna?

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Speaker 3: I still can't believe it was tenth during the top

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Speaker 3: one hundred big in the eighties countdown.

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Speaker 4: That's right, And like you said, they cleaned up those

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Speaker 4: eighty two Countdown Music Awards. They won three awards, but

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Speaker 4: Solid Rock was well and truly up there. The story

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Speaker 4: behind the song at ninety six AFM, Goanna Solid Rock