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Speaker 1: Job mission with Jonesy and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: In the seventies, the Angels rocked the pubs and climbed

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Speaker 2: the charts. They had six top ten albums and they

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Speaker 2: inspired bands like Guns and Roses. But it's no secret

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Speaker 2: the iconic band was plagued within fighting and court battles. Well. Now,

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Speaker 2: the new biography of the late frontman, Doc Neeson, sets

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Speaker 2: the record straight. It's co authored by his wife of

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Speaker 2: twenty five years and suitor.

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Speaker 1: And Hello, Amanda, I've got to say I wasn't his

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Speaker 1: wife of twenty five years?

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Speaker 3: Were you his wife? Were you with him twenty five years?

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Speaker 1: Which bit well, we were together for the last eighteen

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Speaker 1: years of his life, and he first moved to my

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Speaker 1: place in ninety six as a friend, and we were

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Speaker 1: mainly best besties, you know, and we were very very close.

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Speaker 1: We had a very unusual relationship, went from one thing

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Speaker 1: to another. We shared about seven places together.

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Speaker 2: How did you feel then? Going back through his life

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Speaker 2: and some of the darker bits as well, It.

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Speaker 3: Must have been a journey to write this.

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Speaker 1: It sure was. And actually he confided so much that

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Speaker 1: I was quite shocked by what he'd been through, and

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Speaker 1: it explained so much about what a complex person he was.

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Speaker 1: So the book that I've done with John Bradshaw, it's

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Speaker 1: much more than just a straight rock and roll bio.

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Speaker 1: It's a bit like it's a bit like a psychological thriller,

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Speaker 1: explores dark areas and what made Doc who he was,

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Speaker 1: and it gives completely new insights and backstories that have

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Speaker 1: never been told before. And it's a bit like a

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Speaker 1: Doc atlas that covers really previously unknown periods of his life,

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Speaker 1: even goes beyond his death into what happened or will

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Speaker 1: happen because of him. And it's a very unusual book.

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Speaker 1: It was very hard to write, but there was just

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Speaker 1: so much about him. He was just he had so

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Speaker 1: many different sides.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because it's funny reading it. Because I first met

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Speaker 4: Doc in nineteen ninety six when I was working in

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Speaker 4: Brisbane and he came in. We had an interview, and

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Speaker 4: then I went and saw them perform that night and

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Speaker 4: we sort of hung out a bit, and then I

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Speaker 4: didn't see him again for a little while I was

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Speaker 4: at I came to Sydney at the radio station there

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Speaker 4: and Doc said, there's a guy up in Brisbaneho's exactly

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Speaker 4: like you. And I didn't know if he was joking

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Speaker 4: and I said, yeah, I'm the same guy, are you?

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Speaker 4: And then after that he got my number and he

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Speaker 4: used to ring me. He just ring me, like late

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Speaker 4: at night or something like that, I do you remember?

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Speaker 4: And we really got because he used to say to me,

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Speaker 4: he said, you know so much about the band, I've

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Speaker 4: completely forgotten and I'm like an Angel's tragic, but he was.

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Speaker 4: He was such a complex, complex guy. But reading this book,

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Speaker 4: it sort of explains that complexity. If there's.

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Speaker 1: That's what we wanted to do, and we wanted fans

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Speaker 1: to be able to find out about all his really fascinating,

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Speaker 1: really unusual habits and beliefs. And it has some shocking

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Speaker 1: dramas as you would probably agree that he either had

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Speaker 1: to deal with or which he created and then had

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Speaker 1: to deal with, as well as you know, some wonderful

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Speaker 1: things he did that no one ever knew about. Well,

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Speaker 1: I've never known someone so complicated.

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Speaker 2: Well the Angel the Angels were set to become the

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Speaker 2: highest well they were the highest paid band in Australia

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Speaker 2: in the eighties and the nineties. They were about to

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Speaker 2: go global when it all fell apart.

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Speaker 3: What happened there, it was.

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Speaker 1: They got into the end, this debt to do with

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Speaker 1: management and to do with the record companies seemed to

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Speaker 1: be eating each other up and they ended up having

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Speaker 1: to come back to Australia to repay an enormous debt.

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Speaker 4: And well, you know, I remember he was the one

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Speaker 4: that gave us the backyard jam as we know it.

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Speaker 4: He one night, he one night rang me and was

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Speaker 4: about eleven o'clock at night. I'm off to sleep. He go, Jonesy,

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Speaker 4: it's Doc, and I yes, And he said, I've got

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Speaker 4: this idea. And I said, what is it, Doc? And

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Speaker 4: he said, what about October is coming up? Make it?

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Speaker 1: Don't you remember that?

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Speaker 4: Doc Taber and I come round and play in the backyard.

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Speaker 4: So then docks at my house and Amanda was there.

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Speaker 4: Docks at my house and he says, can you have

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Speaker 4: a look at this bruise because he'd fallen over on stage.

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Speaker 4: And then so I'm standing up from a bedroom. Doc's

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Speaker 4: got his pants down and I'm looking at a bruise

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Speaker 4: on his bow.

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Speaker 1: Information I know.

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Speaker 4: My wife walks in and says, okay, I'll leave you

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Speaker 4: to to J's dream. I said, And I'm hungered down

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Speaker 4: looking at Doc's bum to see there's a bruise, this

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Speaker 4: big bruise, I.

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Speaker 3: Said, I'm surprised that photo is not in the book.

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Speaker 4: The chapter you should have asked me. There's a chapter

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Speaker 4: dedicated to that. Surely, but and it's so great to

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Speaker 4: catch up with you again, Doc, The Life and Times

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Speaker 4: of Ozzie Rock Legend Doc Neeson is available now and

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Speaker 4: it's such a great read.

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Speaker 1: And thank you, thank you very much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's sa