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Speaker 1: Ten CC.

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Speaker 2: They're coming to town with the Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour Sunday,

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Speaker 2: July two at the Asta Theater. Tickets through ticket Tech

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Speaker 2: and Graham Goldman from ten CC is joining us this morning.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, morning, Graham, Good morning to you made. It

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Speaker 3: is wonderful to well we can see you, but on

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Speaker 3: the radio to hear you, and great to talk to you.

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Speaker 4: And I'm thinking rubber bullets. Life is a min aestrony.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Judge, I'm not in love dreadlock holiday, you

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Speaker 3: leave your fans exhausted, the un of a gig made

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Speaker 3: so many here.

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Speaker 5: Well we always say we have we have no mercy

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Speaker 5: and we take no prisoners.

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Speaker 4: Love it. So yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 5: People have come to the show, are going to hear

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Speaker 5: well all the hits that you would expect us to

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Speaker 5: play and more, you know, various album trucks, a couple

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Speaker 5: of surprises.

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Speaker 2: Well, I have to say Life is a miniestrone one

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Speaker 2: of my favorite song titles of all time.

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Speaker 1: Now ten CC is.

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Speaker 2: Celebrating fifty years of recording and touring.

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Speaker 1: When was the last time you were in Perth?

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Speaker 5: In Perth not long before the pandemic. Now we toured

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Speaker 5: Australia and New Zealand. In fact, we left Auckland and

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Speaker 5: came back to the very beginning of the pandemic and

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Speaker 5: so very much looking forward to coming back to Australia

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Speaker 5: in particular.

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Speaker 3: Unreal mat Can we go right back to the sixties, mate,

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Speaker 3: and talk about some of those amazing songs you wrote

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Speaker 3: for the Yardbirds and the Hollies and Herman Herberts and

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Speaker 3: the like over the years. And there's a Yardbirds song

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Speaker 3: called for Your Love, which I particularly love and it

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Speaker 3: was a changing point for an hour and Bnban and

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Speaker 3: called the Yardbirds. I think was part of the reason

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Speaker 3: why Clapton said I don't want to be a pop artist.

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Speaker 3: But you wrote that song. Was there a chance that

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Speaker 3: was getting shopped around to become a Beatles song? Is

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Speaker 3: it a myth? Is that true?

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Speaker 5: It's a myth, but it's based on the fact that

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Speaker 5: my manager at the time said we should get this

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Speaker 5: song to the Beatles. But I did remind him that

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Speaker 5: the Beatles were doing very well in the songwriting department themselves. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 5: so that yeah, I think that's how that actually came about.

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Speaker 4: That story.

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Speaker 2: Biggest songs I'm not in love of course, was huge

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Speaker 2: at the time, and now in recent times a little

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Speaker 2: movie called Guardians of the Galaxy has sent it back

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Speaker 2: to the top. You have a whole new generation loving it.

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Speaker 2: Do you get a real kick out of that? I mean,

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Speaker 2: obviously it sends them to your other music as well.

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Speaker 2: Would you get a kick out of.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I do very much so.

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Speaker 5: And it's sort of evident at the gigs that we

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Speaker 5: do that we were that advanced in our years, let's

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Speaker 5: put it that way. We get people of our sort

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Speaker 5: of our own age more mature. We get that we

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Speaker 5: got their children who are kind of approaching middle age

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Speaker 5: and their children as well. So it's very gratifying to

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Speaker 5: see three generations, you know, coming to see us. And

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Speaker 5: of course it's not just because of things like Guardians

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Speaker 5: of the Galaxy. You know, our songs are being played

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Speaker 5: on the radio all the.

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Speaker 3: Time, so they're they're they're in the ether, you know,

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Speaker 3: we play them several of them every week. Can you

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Speaker 3: tell me about a song called floating in here at

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Speaker 3: a beautiful piece of music? And you have more than

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Speaker 3: just music in common with Brian May from Queen, don't you?

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Speaker 4: Yes? I do?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I wrote the song which was inspired by the

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Speaker 5: James web Space Telescope. Played it to Andrew my record company,

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Speaker 5: and he said, the song is brilliant, he said, but

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Speaker 5: wouldn't it be great to get someone like Brown May

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Speaker 5: to play on it? Because Royan is both an astronomer

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Speaker 5: and an astrophysicist as well as being a brilliant guitar player.

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Speaker 5: So I sent him the song and he says, I

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Speaker 5: love this, I want to play on it. And he

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Speaker 5: it was wonderful working with him.

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Speaker 2: Overachiever I reckon, speaking of songs that are still very

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Speaker 2: much in the ether, Dreadlock Holiday. Are you amazed that

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Speaker 2: it became well? I mean, obviously with the lining and

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Speaker 2: I don't like cricket.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 2: It was always going to be associated with cricket, but

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Speaker 5: I'm absolutely delighted, I have to say, ironically. I mean,

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Speaker 5: but I've never been to a cricket I know that's

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Speaker 5: But you know that that line was. Actually I have

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Speaker 5: to admit that it wasn't a line that I thought of.

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Speaker 5: I was in Jamaica and I was trying to a

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Speaker 5: talking about sports, and I said, what about cricket?

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Speaker 4: Do you like it? He said, no, I don't like it.

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Speaker 4: I love it, and he gave me the line.

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Speaker 5: You know, I thought, I think that's the thing with

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Speaker 5: songwriters have always got this sort of antennae waiting for

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Speaker 5: something to you know, they pick up on something someone

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Speaker 5: says that might be funny or it's a great last thing,

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Speaker 5: and it's a great line, you know, and I thank

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Speaker 5: him for it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the test of time.

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Speaker 3: And I was going to think I was trying to

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Speaker 3: think of a new question to ask all the musicians

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Speaker 3: that come on the show. And my question is not

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Speaker 3: fear with you, because it was going to be have

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Speaker 3: you ever met a Beatle? And what did they say

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Speaker 3: to you? But you've spent a lot of time with

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Speaker 3: Beatle in particular, haven't you?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 5: I did, Yeah with Ringo Star. I toured with Ringo

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Speaker 5: in twenty eighteen. We did two major tours and had

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Speaker 5: a wonderful time with him and the rest of the band.

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Speaker 4: It was a great experience. I really enjoyed it.

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Speaker 2: Graham, can I ask, as a songwriter, what do you

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Speaker 2: think of the current crop of artists like your age,

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Speaker 2: Shearon and Adele and Chris Martin.

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Speaker 1: Do you think they have the staying power of your lot?

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Speaker 4: I think some of them will, Yes, I do.

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Speaker 5: There are certain records that are sort of I think

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Speaker 5: they're kind of disposable, and they're made that way and

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Speaker 5: not destined to become classics that will be played fifty

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Speaker 5: years on by some of our songs. But you know,

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Speaker 5: there's always something good happening. And when I was like

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Speaker 5: less than that. But the whole industry has changed somewhat.

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Speaker 5: But for us, you know, the songs that we have

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Speaker 5: have longevity, and that's proved by the fact that we

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Speaker 5: can still tour playing these songs and people want to

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Speaker 5: hear them.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, the answer the.

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Speaker 5: Question is, there's not as much I think songwriting talent

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Speaker 5: are people that are great, you know, and I mean

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Speaker 5: he just hits the nail on the.

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Speaker 4: Head with what he writes, and he's prolific.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and as a master songwriter, how do you feel

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Speaker 3: about it having to go to court to protect these

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Speaker 3: use of certain chords which are being used by so many.

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Speaker 5: Well, I applauded his victory because, as his lawyer said,

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Speaker 5: there are certain building blocks that all songwriters have the

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Speaker 5: right to own. And just because something has a similar

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Speaker 5: groove to something else doesn't mean it's a copy.

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Speaker 4: It was inspired by.

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Speaker 5: It, and he, I mean ed proved that when he

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Speaker 5: used to segue, let's get it on into speaking out loud,

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Speaker 5: so he kind of admits that. But you know, we're

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Speaker 5: all influenced by something else. There's nothing truly original. But

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Speaker 5: obviously we don't want a copy, the copy plagiarized steel.

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Speaker 4: But we're all.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm to this day, my biggest influence in

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Speaker 5: songwriting is the Beetles. But I have I have really

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Speaker 5: written a couple of their songs many years ago and

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Speaker 5: sort of realized that I shouldn't have done.

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Speaker 4: But you know, all songwriters will do.

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Speaker 5: I think it's quite common you'll do something then you

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Speaker 5: or whatever your friends will say, I'm sorry, mate, you

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Speaker 5: can't do that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, too similar to it.

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Speaker 1: It'll be obvious.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, George, someone will someone, someone will pull you up.

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Speaker 3: On George Harrison said if you can put it all

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Speaker 3: on a computer and it would spit it out. And

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Speaker 3: he said that when he got in the trouble in

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Speaker 3: the seventies. You know, there's no one way of saying

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm sure Joe was not conscious of the fact

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Speaker 5: that he was that. You know, my sweet Lord was

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Speaker 5: so similar to He's so fine.

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Speaker 4: But there you go. But you know he owned up

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Speaker 4: to it and shared the arts.

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Speaker 2: So Graham, I've got to ask you one question or

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Speaker 2: you need to do is say yes or no. But

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Speaker 2: over the years, I've been told various accounts of why

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Speaker 2: the band was called ten C C. Is it the

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Speaker 2: story I've heard that's made me blush?

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Speaker 4: That story, that story, the story you've heard that made

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Speaker 1: Yes, just to wear the name Temps.

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Speaker 5: Is something that we adopted because it was more fun

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Speaker 5: than the real reason and wouldn't make you blush.

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Speaker 1: Yes, if you know, you know, we'll leave it at that.

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Speaker 4: I know exactly what you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: We'll let people look that up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Well, it's been a real pleasure to talk

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Speaker 3: to you and we look forward to hearing those hits.

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Speaker 1: Are and third yes on July the second that the ASTA.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to talk to you, Graham.

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Speaker 4: Okay, lovely to talk to you too. Thank you so much,