1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,600 Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam. 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 2: Nation losing great acts who we grew up with. Renee 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:09,480 Speaker 2: Gayer passed away. We learned this overnight. 4 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:10,799 Speaker 3: Yeah, very sad news. 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, I just she was great. You forget about how 6 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 2: much of an impact that these artists have in your life. 7 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:21,319 Speaker 2: I remember watching Countdown and seeing Renee on that show, 8 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 2: and she was part of my growing up of course 9 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 2: for all of us. And then on Coulture's official which 10 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:29,479 Speaker 2: I follow on Instagram, they put up this. It was 11 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 2: from a benefit concept from back in the eighties and 12 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 2: Renee was doing back up. This is them doing knocking 13 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 2: on Heaven's door. 14 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 4: To do. 15 00:00:53,880 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: To see that is just extraordinary. 16 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 3: She's amazing, isn't she? She had this soul voice. She 17 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 3: was kind of notoriously prickly, and I know a lot 18 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 3: of journalists are always terrified when they were going to 19 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,199 Speaker 3: interview her because she didn't tolerate fools. Twenty years forty 20 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 3: years ago, I was at Paddington Markets with a girl 21 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,040 Speaker 3: friend of mine. It was gormless in girls in her 22 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 3: young twenties, and we're looking at some jewelry and my 23 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 3: friend reached out to pick up a ring and his 24 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 3: voice says, I was looking at that Renee Gay, I 25 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 3: scared the hell out of us. But then I met 26 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,199 Speaker 3: her a number of times over years. She was great. 27 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 3: She was a woman who was really true to herself. 28 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 3: She knew the songs that worked for her, she knew 29 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 3: her voice, she knew her people. She was amazing. 30 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 2: Jimmy Barnes said he first time he heard her sing, 31 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 2: he's just thinking, where's this voice coming from? And when 32 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 2: you hear it like it's a man's. 33 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: Man, this is a man's work. 34 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 5: It would have been nothing again. 35 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:19,919 Speaker 2: And then she had some huge hits with her own stuff. 36 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 4: Heading in the right direction, in the right direction, and 37 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,799 Speaker 4: stairs and whispers. 38 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 3: I love this the most, where back go. 39 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 5: She was such a part of our up when she. 40 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 4: Got poppy hours like this one. 41 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 2: Doesn't happen, remember this one for good? 42 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 3: This one? 43 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: You know what? 44 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 2: I had this flashback Stuart Cranny on Triple M Back 45 00:02:55,120 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 2: announcing that song in the eighties. Just an extraordinary extraordinary artists. 46 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 2: We just loved. Yeah, absolutely so good. 47 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 3: What are we going to play? 48 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 2: I think I think we should play her big hits. 49 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:08,639 Speaker 1: Say you love me. 50 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 2: Let's do it. 51 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 3: This is great, so I love you? Here it is 52 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 3: say I love you. 53 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, rest in peace with you. 54 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 3: So many people from the Australian music industry and all 55 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 3: over the world paid tribute to her yesterday, passed away 56 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 3: far too young. Yeah, but you know what a what 57 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:32,519 Speaker 3: a contribution she made to the music world. 58 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 2: But also like with Sting, did you know the song 59 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 2: Sting will be Together? You know this song. 60 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 5: Willmen's Together? 61 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Renee. 62 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 5: It didn't that. 63 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 2: There you go.