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Speaker 1: Dion Warwick is coming to town. She's going to be

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Speaker 1: at the Riverside Theater on Saturday, January eleven. You can

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Speaker 1: get your tickets through ticketech. Dion's tour is called One

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Speaker 1: Last Time, and she's with us this morning. Good morning, Dion, welcome,

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Speaker 1: good morning to you. Let's talk about that tour name.

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Speaker 1: Is it really going to be the last time?

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Speaker 2: It might just be never know.

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Speaker 3: I'm just looking at this list.

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Speaker 4: Fifty six singles in the Hot one hundred and twelve

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Speaker 4: Top tens, rock and Roll Hall of Fame, six Grammys.

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Speaker 3: It is incredible. Does it feel like someone else? At times?

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Speaker 3: It is an incredible career?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, And then I have to ten myself.

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Speaker 2: Is that me?

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Speaker 3: You have been doing it a while, Deon.

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Speaker 1: I say that in the nicest possible way. How have

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Speaker 1: you stayed motivated and inspired all these years?

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Speaker 2: Well, let me say, you know, this has been sixty

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Speaker 2: two years, so long it's spent.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I have.

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Speaker 2: Seventy wonderful grandchildren who have kind of kept me abreast

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Speaker 2: of what was going on musically because I listened to

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Speaker 2: my peers mostly and they'll come up with a numbit

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Speaker 2: of a song as Ramyles say this one you know,

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Speaker 2: and I do, so that's how I say as current

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Speaker 2: as I am.

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Speaker 4: Ah, I know you talking that documentary that you made

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Speaker 4: three years ago, and I know it was a long

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Speaker 4: time in the making.

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Speaker 3: Don't make me over? Was its name?

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Speaker 4: You have a special link with the Apollo, don't you?

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Speaker 4: From way back? And is it true you saw that

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Speaker 4: documentary the first time of the Apollo?

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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely the same.

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Speaker 3: How incredible?

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Speaker 2: That must be very special for you, no doubt, you know,

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Speaker 2: to first of all, to be able to not only

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Speaker 2: perform at the Apollo, but to during that period of

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Speaker 2: time to win amateurate. It's amazing, exactly, Jon.

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Speaker 1: You've become a bit of an icon on Twitter or

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Speaker 1: x as they call it now in recent times with

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Speaker 1: the post, especially once towards the you know, towards other celebs.

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Speaker 1: Did you ever find out why chance the rapper finds

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Speaker 1: the need to put the rapper in his name?

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Speaker 3: We know you're a rapper? I was.

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Speaker 2: I was shocked that he even responded to meat, not shocked.

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Speaker 2: He never really answered that.

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Speaker 1: Oh.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean Snoop he's a friend of yours? Any

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Speaker 3: Snoop dog?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she is. He's a wonderful young man.

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Speaker 3: I love Snoop. It was all under the Olympics. It's great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's grown into quite an entrepreneur. Yes, yeah, he's

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Speaker 2: become quite maine now.

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Speaker 1: It really is sixty two years of performing. Is there

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Speaker 1: a song you're sick of playing?

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Speaker 2: Yet? How do you argue with success that's true?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay is exactly.

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Speaker 4: I was lucky enough twenty years ago, a couple of

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Speaker 4: twenty years ago to introduce you at sandal for Winery

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Speaker 4: for a couple of nights in two thousand and four

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Speaker 4: with the WA Symphony Orchestra, and as you walked on stage,

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Speaker 4: the crowd erupted both nights. How does that? How does

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Speaker 4: that feel? With that love from the fans.

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Speaker 2: It's sensational, absolutely amazing to know that people forsaw have enjoyed.

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Speaker 2: But I give them musically, and I appreciate that I've

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Speaker 2: given them so I you know, it's the rewards that

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Speaker 2: you get all the good work.

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Speaker 3: That you do.

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Speaker 1: You've given of yourself in a lot of ways. You're

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Speaker 1: you're very well known for your philanthropy, especially when it

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Speaker 1: comes to aids, charities, stuffing done with the un You

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Speaker 1: were honored by a fire earlier this year. Fore decades

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Speaker 1: of work. So I congratulations on that. But that moment

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Speaker 1: with Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder, and that's

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Speaker 1: what friends are for. How was it getting them to

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Speaker 1: collaborate with you? Was it hard or were they? Did

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Speaker 1: you make one phone call and they said, Dion, I mean.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, basically, you know. I ran into Elston actually in

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Speaker 2: grocery store.

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Speaker 3: Real, yeah, I'm shopping at the shop. He was shopping.

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Speaker 2: He's doing a birthday party for manager. And I approached

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Speaker 2: him and I said, Hey, what are you doing tomorrow night?

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Speaker 2: And he said, well, I'm playing the party. I said, well,

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Speaker 2: are you working tomorrow night against this party? He said no.

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Speaker 2: I said, well, I know where you're going to be

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Speaker 2: and I told him what I was doing and he

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Speaker 2: said absolutely. Yeah. Called and he said I will be

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Speaker 2: home and I said, then you're going to come right

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Speaker 2: to the studio and go out. So I picked her

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Speaker 2: up on my car.

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Speaker 3: Oh god, I think very much. I'm not leaving till

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Speaker 3: you get in the car.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Fantastic.

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Speaker 4: And did Elizabeth Tyler really say I want you to

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Speaker 4: give us the song? In other words, all the prophets

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Speaker 4: is that how it was.

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Speaker 2: Yes, she certainly did. She said, yeah, can I self

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Speaker 2: before men lass? Yeah, yeah, And we went into a

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Speaker 2: little corner and she said, listen, that song is something

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Speaker 2: I feel would be very beneficial to the eighth problem.

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Speaker 2: Could you would you consider giving me that song as

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Speaker 2: the anthem for the territor BORINGZATIONI I'm starting to call them. Well,

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Speaker 2: let's ask the other three folks in there. They had

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Speaker 2: as much to do with just as I do. And

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Speaker 2: we all figured that we all have felt the sting

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Speaker 2: of age and by talent just going to make a difference,

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Speaker 2: find that and that's what we did.

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Speaker 3: Yea to this day, very generous, No, you it's.

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Speaker 2: Something that we felt we had no choice but to do. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, we got people to understand what we were

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Speaker 2: doing and why we were doing it, and how they

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Speaker 2: said be of help.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well you'd all lost too many friends already, hadn't

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Speaker 4: you by that stage.

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Speaker 1: Because people don't understand people, you know, today a lot

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Speaker 1: don't understand just how controversial it was at the time

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Speaker 1: in terms of people talking about it and understanding it.

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Speaker 1: And we had to get that, you know, discussion going.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely and music has a very magical way of doing that. Absolutely,

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Speaker 2: but the song did.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, you've won six Grammys over the many years.

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Speaker 1: Which one means the most to you? Or are they

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Speaker 1: all like your children?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know the the very many bull the songs

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Speaker 2: that have gone at the praise of my peers was

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Speaker 2: that during Share the Time to Live won the grant me.

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Speaker 2: That's how we were voted in by those who are

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Speaker 2: in the industry as well. And it's a wonderful feeling

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Speaker 2: to know that your peers think that, yeah, you did

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Speaker 2: it this year, so you deserve it.

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Speaker 4: We're all said. By the loss of Burt Backerg last year,

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Speaker 4: what an incredible life. But he just kept coming up

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Speaker 4: with those gifts, didn't those wonderful songs?

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Speaker 2: He came up with wonderful melodies. And we shall not

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Speaker 2: forget how David us those words for me to sing.

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Speaker 2: And if we were not for how Baby, we'd all

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Speaker 2: be humming instead.

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Speaker 4: Of saying whistling, whistling or something I did.

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Speaker 1: I had a great joy of seeing Burt back around

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Speaker 1: a few years ago, and it was such an amazing

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Speaker 1: show because so many of those incredible songs, like I

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Speaker 1: Say a Little Prayer and all squeezed into a medley

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Speaker 1: because there was so many, too many, so songs to do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, but amazing well.

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Speaker 2: Direct songs were written for me and bye bye now

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Speaker 2: and you know much appreciated.

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Speaker 1: Yeah well you you brought them to life, that's for sure,

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Speaker 1: and we can't wait to see you do it on

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Speaker 1: your one last time tour at the Riverside Theater January eleven.

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Speaker 1: Tickets are available through ticer tech Dion. We look forward

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Speaker 1: to having you back in town. Thank you for chatting

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Speaker 1: with us this morning.

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Speaker 3: Not Leisure down twenty years on terrific.

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Speaker 2: All the best, Bye bye