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Speaker 1: Russell Morris is going to be in town November the eleventh,

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Speaker 1: doing the Real Thing at Crown Theater. Tickets through Ticketmaster.

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Speaker 1: He joins us, Now, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Clearzy and Lisa, how are you good?

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Speaker 1: Very well? Now, the real thing in concert is going

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Speaker 1: to see you play in front of a fifty six

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Speaker 1: piece orchestra. That is going to be spectacular with a

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Speaker 1: fifty six piece orchestra performing not only that, but all

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Speaker 1: your hits from over the decades rearranged for orchestra by

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Speaker 1: David Hirschfelder, the Academy Award nominated composer. This is awesome.

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Speaker 1: Have you done anything like this before?

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Speaker 3: No, I've done sort of smatterings, but I always had

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Speaker 3: my hand up with the orchestras to try and see

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Speaker 3: if they include me in the summer season, but they

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Speaker 3: never did. This came about, which was fabulous. And to

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Speaker 3: be working with David, who's done so much great work

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Speaker 3: with John Farnman.

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Speaker 2: By the way, isn't it great to hear that he's.

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Speaker 1: On the rail celebrating all morning?

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I know.

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Speaker 3: It is just absolutely fabulous And I always admired what

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Speaker 3: he did with John and the people who want to

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Speaker 3: come to the show.

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Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just a conjurit.

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Speaker 3: I get up there and I sing the songs the

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Speaker 3: real star of the show to me, and he'll always

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Speaker 3: deny because he's so modest. He is much arrangements to

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Speaker 3: arrangements are absolutely gobsmacking you. And I think if anyone's

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Speaker 3: deciding they may want to come to the show, they

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Speaker 3: just need to read the reviews that of people who

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Speaker 3: have gone to see the show. He's I'm astounded. I

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Speaker 3: get every time he would send me a new arrangement.

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Speaker 2: I was just cobsmacked to go, Wow, he's a bit

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Speaker 2: of a journe.

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Speaker 4: And it's funny because we were celebrating the Phantom and

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Speaker 4: the John Phantom News this morning by playing Playing to Win,

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Speaker 4: which was David Hirsch felt all over it. You're pretty

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Speaker 4: modest yourself, Russell, but we I did tease Lisa this

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Speaker 4: morning saying there was a very big Perth connection with

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Speaker 4: the real thing, and that was of course, the of

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Speaker 4: the song was from Perth.

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Speaker 2: What's he ever done? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Range John the other day, you've got to come to

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Speaker 3: the show.

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Speaker 2: You have to come to the show, I said, you will.

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Speaker 3: You'll probably start crying because what's been done to the

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Speaker 3: songs is.

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Speaker 2: Pretty pretty spectacular.

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Speaker 3: Quite a few people that came to the show actually

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Speaker 3: teared up, which was lovely.

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Speaker 1: I had no doubt, and I imagine it would have

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Speaker 1: been made quite the impression of Molly too.

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Speaker 3: Well, Molly didn't come because this sounds horrible. We couldn't

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Speaker 3: get anyone to bring him because.

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Speaker 2: Of what he's Yes, we had a bit of a problem,

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Speaker 2: so we're doing.

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Speaker 3: We sold out Hamer Hall, but now we've got two

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Speaker 3: more shows and the second one sold out. In the

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Speaker 3: third one is halfway through, so we're trying to go.

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Speaker 2: I have to have Molly Thereeler, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I've got to get someone to bring him, and I

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Speaker 3: think maybe Jerry Ryan will be him along the guide

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Speaker 3: from the Jacob Caravans, who loves Molly and is really

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Speaker 3: very kind to him, and I think he's the guy

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Speaker 3: to do it.

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Speaker 1: I think Molly will absolutely love it. Now, how was

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Speaker 1: the process of taking your songs from as they are

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Speaker 1: to be orchestra appropriate? As you said, you've just got

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Speaker 1: the great fortune of having David Hirschfelder on board, But

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Speaker 1: did you have much say in it?

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Speaker 2: I didn't want any say.

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Speaker 3: It's like something that's advising Einstein on the theory of relatives. Ye,

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Speaker 3: fair enough, Okay, So I just said, David is the song.

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Speaker 3: Some of the songs I just put down acoustically and

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Speaker 3: sent it to him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I.

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Speaker 3: Said, do what you want. And there were a couple

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Speaker 3: of times he did one he did the Girl that

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Speaker 3: I Love. I made him reach out and made him

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Speaker 3: change that. That was the only one, but everything else

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Speaker 3: would come back and I would just go, oh, oh wow, Okay,

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Speaker 3: it's just the The interesting thing is I got all

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Speaker 3: the oxtrations first, and I didn't have a band, so

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Speaker 3: singing along with the orchestrations was almost impossible because the

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Speaker 3: way he cuts across the beat with things like that,

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Speaker 3: it was incredible.

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Speaker 2: But once the band slots in there, it's like, Wow,

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Speaker 2: what a jigsaw puzzle. This is incredible.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that must be a real joy to come through there. Mate.

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Speaker 4: We were celebrating not only John Farnum this morning, yeah,

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Speaker 4: but was celebrating you coming with this show. But we

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Speaker 4: also celebrated the fact that Rick Springfield is seventy four today.

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Speaker 4: Another Ossie music veteran. Did you think when you kicked off,

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Speaker 4: you know, in the mid sixties with somebody's image that

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Speaker 4: there was any chance at seventy five you'd be doing

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Speaker 3: Us No, I didn't and I didn't think there be

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Speaker 3: any chance once Rick did an album and it became

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Speaker 3: very successful in America that we would do an album Togain.

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Speaker 3: So yes, that's been Yeah, and he's still a good mate.

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Speaker 3: We contact each other quite often. And someone hit It's

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Speaker 3: a shame though. I feel a bit sorry for Rick

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Speaker 3: because I think when he was young someone hit him

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Speaker 3: with an ug.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, every branch on the way down, didn't he out

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Speaker 4: of that tree?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's it's affected his career.

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Speaker 2: I think I really did.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's like a rockstye, huge eckman, that bloke.

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Speaker 1: Oh and how quickly he let himself go to he

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Speaker 1: just he loves it.

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Speaker 2: Was most terrible. You don't have boo himself out, Bloken.

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Speaker 1: Russell. You're playing the Crown Theater, it's a little there's

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Speaker 1: obviously a lot more intimate than doing an arena. What

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Speaker 1: is it just the intimacy that's difference different between those

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Speaker 1: venues or as. There are vast difference with the acoustics

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I'm not I've never played that theater.

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Speaker 2: I've actually late laid eyes on it.

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Speaker 3: As long as we can fit a well, it's a

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Speaker 3: fifty four piece of chest plus an eleven piece bands,

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Speaker 3: so as lasts we can fit them on the stage

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Speaker 3: without having to sit them in the front stalls.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you won't have any trouble with that, mate,

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Speaker 4: Russ all that throughout your career might there have been

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Speaker 4: so many high points. What does the Aria Hall of

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Speaker 4: Fame induction mean to you?

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Speaker 3: The Aria Hall of Fame induction, if you can imagine that,

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Speaker 3: galvanized me.

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Speaker 2: It was like I was there and they said you're

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Speaker 2: being nominated for the Aria Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 3: I came up and they gave me the Golden Aria

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Speaker 3: and spoke about it and all that, and do you

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Speaker 3: know what I felt like? I felt like John John

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Speaker 3: Blogs and I'd been working at a MP all my

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Speaker 3: life and they were giving me the gold Watch.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's what it felt like. It's not over

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Speaker 5: for me. That's like you're going in a rocking chair

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Speaker 5: and you just bugger off. So what I did was

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Speaker 5: shark Mouth. That became the biggest album I ever.

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Speaker 2: Had absolute I think it was. It was a great

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Speaker 2: thing for me. To get it because it made me think,

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Speaker 2: hang on, hang on, hang.

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Speaker 4: On, that's good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well the show is going to be amazing. I

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Speaker 1: watched just watch Tar the other day Russell with Kate Blenchatt.

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Speaker 1: Is that amazing conductor? I expect nothing assured of that

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Speaker 1: at this show with a fifty four piece orchestra. It's

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Speaker 1: a Crown Theater. November eleven tickets with through Ticketmaster. We'll

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Speaker 1: see you in November.

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Speaker 4: It was a joy, mate, I'm Cleazie and Lisa.

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Speaker 2: Thanks very much.

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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what, no one would hear about

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Speaker 3: the show unless you guys put me on here.

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Speaker 2: So I am very grateful.

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Speaker 3: So and for all those people, I promise you won't

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Speaker 3: be disappointed.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's going to be. It's amazing.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Russell, OK, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Hie