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Speaker 1: I think you guessed who this was going to be today.

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Speaker 2: No, I thought it was someone else. But you and

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Speaker 2: I have both had the privilege through this job of

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Speaker 2: interviewing this guy.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and what you see is what you get, and

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Speaker 1: always made it sound like you is made because he always

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Speaker 1: remembered your name. Yes, very good, like a politician, but better.

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Speaker 1: An envelope contains the music topic to discuss this five

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Speaker 1: minutes on the clock to film, and there's no time

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Speaker 1: to prep this is banter with Clesy and Lisa. I'm

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Speaker 1: just going to get my time already. What is that?

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Speaker 2: Oh no, it's it's John Farnham. It's John John Peter Farnham,

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Speaker 2: John Farnham.

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Speaker 1: What a wonderful man.

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Speaker 2: It's a wonderful one voice, lovely, lovely, lovely.

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Speaker 1: Bad English born who became Australian of the Year. Yes,

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Speaker 1: quite a sensation in itself. What a success in your

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Speaker 1: new Land, even though he came here very young from

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Speaker 1: dagging him in England. I don't know a lot about

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Speaker 1: John Farnham. I'm gonna be honest.

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Speaker 2: I know that he had a song called Sadie the

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Speaker 2: Clean Lady. He did when he was Johnny, when he

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Speaker 2: was Johnny fun king of pop and he has spent

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Speaker 2: his entire life trying to live it down. But it

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Speaker 2: was hilarious. I do remember seeing him singing it in

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Speaker 2: black and white for some reason. Maybe it was the

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Speaker 2: Don Lane Show, probably something like that. And then what

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Speaker 2: would have was ahead of Glenn Wheatley, you know, risking everything.

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Speaker 1: For mortgaging the house the voice Whispering Jack.

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Speaker 2: Jack And wasn't that worth a worthwhile move? What else

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Speaker 2: happened before that? What happened in between The Cleaning Lady

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Speaker 2: and that?

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Speaker 1: Well, john had a lot of hits and was king

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Speaker 1: of pop.

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Speaker 2: For a lot of years exactly, So what was what

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Speaker 2: came out?

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Speaker 1: He had a song called one Lonliest Number. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: rain Drops Kip follow him my Head, It's a huge hit.

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Speaker 1: And then he after that initial success because he did

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Speaker 1: it bit theater stuff.

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Speaker 2: I was going to say, I know he did some theater.

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Speaker 1: He definitely did some theater work that come before he

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Speaker 1: was in Pippen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was pantomime kind of stuff. Did that come

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Speaker 2: before the big music success of Whispering Jack?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Yeah, so he did a lot of that stuff.

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Speaker 1: But what happened was he had this incredible run where

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Speaker 1: he was King of pop, and I think Alison Durban

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Speaker 1: or Colin Hewett were quick coin of pop Mahinds, and

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Speaker 1: then Darrel Brothway got to a point where he took

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Speaker 1: over his King of pops. So there were those long

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Speaker 1: runs and then John had that phase where because he

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Speaker 1: was Johnny Farner and it was seen as daggy. Yes,

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Speaker 1: there was a long time where radio didn't play him

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Speaker 1: and no one really. He was playing pubs and stuff

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Speaker 1: like that. And I remember Mate saying that he once

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Speaker 1: saw John Farnham at a suburban pub doing out Bob

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Speaker 1: segering Bob Sieger on Hollywood Knights doing covers, which is

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Speaker 1: really quite sad. But he had to work, had to

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Speaker 1: play the bills, and then all of a sudden he

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Speaker 1: got to that point. In nineteen eighty and my sister

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Speaker 1: came home with this single and she said, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: you have to hear this. I was fourteen fifteen minutes

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Speaker 1: she walked into this single she put on the turntable.

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Speaker 1: It was one of those moments and I've got ghost,

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Speaker 1: I'm singing and it was John doing the Beatles' help

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Speaker 1: in that ballad style. That's mind blowingly good. Yes, and

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Speaker 1: she goes, you won't believe he's now calling himself John

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Speaker 1: fun of having it started to turn. It started turning.

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Speaker 2: Because there he I think he came very close. Could

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Speaker 2: have gone either way.

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Speaker 1: He came very close and.

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Speaker 2: Just throwing his hands up in there and saying, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I give up, I give up. I'm Johnny Farnham and

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Speaker 2: said he's my cleaning lady. Yeah, and was a cheer

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Speaker 2: on the Mic Wall Show and the Christmas Path of Mine.

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Speaker 1: And it could have gone that way.

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Speaker 2: It could have gone that way.

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Speaker 1: So he went from that point. So he was still

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Speaker 1: not really in the mainstream again, but that's that god

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Speaker 1: people's attention because it was such a different version of

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Speaker 1: the Beatles version of help. And then he joined and

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Speaker 1: he joined Little Riverband Oh yes, of course, had a

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Speaker 1: couple of hit singles with Little Band the other Guy

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Speaker 1: won't be around and replacing Glenn Sharcke.

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Speaker 2: That helped him cement his John Farnham Yes to move away.

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Speaker 1: And also got him exposed in America for a while

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Speaker 1: as well. Yes, a singer of.

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Speaker 2: Llobe Now how do you He was always friends with

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Speaker 2: Glenn Wheatley, wasn't he. They were friends from way back

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Speaker 2: and Glenn obviously completely believed in him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Glenn Wheatley was the manager of l RB,

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Speaker 1: so he ended up that's Playing to Win became a

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Speaker 1: bit of a hit.

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Speaker 2: That's where it was.

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Speaker 1: And the crossover it was the LRB with David Hirschfielder

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Speaker 1: and all those guys playing. You know, he was playing

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Speaker 1: his weird instruments and stuff. And then as he said,

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Speaker 1: Glenn Whitley put everything on.

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Speaker 2: The line and Whispering Jack come out so incredible and

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Speaker 2: the rest is history.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is incredible.

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Speaker 2: But I've never seen such a turn around in the

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Speaker 2: credibility of an artist. I mean, he was always fantastic,

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Speaker 2: but there was that whole As I said, the Sadie,

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Speaker 2: the cleaning Lady, Jay Farnam couldn't be sweet. Your mother

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Speaker 2: loves him into being a proper You can't pigeonhole. He's

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Speaker 2: not a He's not just a pop star. He's not

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Speaker 2: a rock star, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: He's He became an icon, much loved. He Australian of

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Speaker 1: the Year. You are.

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Speaker 2: You know a lot of people talk about down Under,

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Speaker 2: but you are the voice really has become the unofficial.

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Speaker 1: And the age of reason. Another hit album was a.

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Speaker 2: Whispering It was Whispering Jack was the first thing released

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Speaker 2: on CD in Australia.

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Speaker 1: Yes it was, which is also you know, that was

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Speaker 1: quite an honor and to become, like I said, Australian

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Speaker 1: of the Year, but so many more accolades in that.

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Speaker 1: But like I said to you on the air the

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Speaker 1: other day, the thing about John going and seeing him

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Speaker 1: live and he would spend so much time picking up

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Speaker 1: toys and teddies and flowers from the crowd because he

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Speaker 1: was so loved and he also he had the mother

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Speaker 1: in law jokes and stuff like that, so he's always

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Speaker 1: very likable John. Yeah, and we can't help but wish

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Speaker 1: him all the best. Right now, Dansid time is over.

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Speaker 1: Ninety six a FM Clezi and Lisa