WEBVTT - MINI: Before They Were Famous

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<v Speaker 1>Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>Before they were famous, that's what we want to talk

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<v Speaker 2>about you on the next half an hour and who

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<v Speaker 2>do you who?

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<v Speaker 3>Have you seen before they were famous?

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<v Speaker 2>This week we spoke to Steve and he was winning

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<v Speaker 2>Oasis tickets and he's told has only ever been to

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<v Speaker 2>two shows. One was get this The Wiggles probably the

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<v Speaker 2>most successful Australian act globally.

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<v Speaker 4>I feel like they toured three times a year as well.

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<v Speaker 2>But he saw them at basketball Court and broad Meadows.

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<v Speaker 2>That really is before they were famous. Chris also saw

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<v Speaker 2>before they were famous Wiggles at the Williamstown Town Hall.

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<v Speaker 3>Saw the Wiggles there.

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<v Speaker 2>So today on nine four one four one O four three,

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<v Speaker 2>who did you see and where before they were famous?

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<v Speaker 2>Have you guys anyone I seen any acts before they

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<v Speaker 2>made it big?

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<v Speaker 4>All right?

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<v Speaker 5>We actually said no to having Lady Gaga on The

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<v Speaker 5>Hamish and Andy.

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<v Speaker 4>Show before she was famous big enough? Like who's this?

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<v Speaker 1>No?

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<v Speaker 4>Like they said, photos of Anxious? What's this?

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<v Speaker 6>Wow?

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<v Speaker 4>Wacky outfit?

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<v Speaker 3>Patsy, you must have seen some bands before.

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<v Speaker 1>They broke be My brother in law Bill saw ac

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<v Speaker 1>DC at the Wean Gretta town Hall in the late

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<v Speaker 1>sixties as a student.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yep, how many We're going to get a lot

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<v Speaker 3>of these.

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<v Speaker 5>We'll get to ac DC. Good to get out of

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<v Speaker 5>the way, Patsy. There'll be lots of a CDC playing

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<v Speaker 5>at my high school.

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<v Speaker 2>I reckon the Christian Connell Show podcast right now.

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<v Speaker 3>Then before they were famous? Who have you seen band

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<v Speaker 3>or artists before they were famous? Where were they.

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<v Speaker 2>Playing before they broke big? On nine four one four one,

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<v Speaker 2>o four to three. Good morning, Kydie, good morning.

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<v Speaker 1>So my auntie who still bragged to the stage, saw

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<v Speaker 1>ac DC at Paisley High School for twenty cents.

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<v Speaker 3>Wow, that is quite a good brag to have as well. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>twenty cents as.

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<v Speaker 4>Well as before dynamic pricing.

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<v Speaker 3>Twenty cents.

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<v Speaker 1>She just yet she bragged my brother about it all

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<v Speaker 1>the time.

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<v Speaker 3>I think it's one of those things in Australia, isn't it.

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<v Speaker 2>The amount of people that actually saw ac DC before

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<v Speaker 2>that became famous, wouldn't mean that there were millionaires before

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<v Speaker 2>they even had a record.

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<v Speaker 3>Owt, Kylie, thank you very much, you call great.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you.

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<v Speaker 2>Early on in my career I did a breakfast show

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<v Speaker 2>in Liverpool, home of the Beatles and the amount of

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<v Speaker 2>callers whose nan or auntie went out with one of

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<v Speaker 2>the Beatles.

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<v Speaker 3>This band must have slept with the entire city of Liverpool.

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<v Speaker 2>The stories I heard, Tony, Good morning, Tony, good morning, Christian.

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<v Speaker 3>All right, Tony, who did you see before the broke?

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<v Speaker 3>Big John Farnham? Wow?

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<v Speaker 2>I mean this is this is out there, isn't it?

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<v Speaker 2>ACDC and fancy? And where was he playing before he

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<v Speaker 2>became famous?

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<v Speaker 1>Bard More shopping center? Oh?

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<v Speaker 3>Wow?

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<v Speaker 4>Did he see Sadie the cleaning lady there?

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<v Speaker 3>Yes?

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<v Speaker 1>He did, still being called Johnny Farnham at the time too.

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<v Speaker 3>Wow. That must have been going back a few years, Tony,

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<v Speaker 3>about forty years Bloody. Hell, amazing scenes, Tony, thank you

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<v Speaker 3>very much. She called the Christian O'Connell show podcast all right,

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<v Speaker 3>before they were famous? What bands or artists you've seen

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<v Speaker 3>before they broke? Big Wendy, who was it for you?

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<v Speaker 3>Good morning?

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning? I saw Inexcess with Michael Hutchins at Maya

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<v Speaker 1>in the Miss shop. Wow, in the nineteen eighties.

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<v Speaker 2>Just so many of these stars before the became famous

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<v Speaker 2>playing in shopping centers.

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<v Speaker 4>There was the right to success.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, I didn't realize that was part of the music

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<v Speaker 2>scene here in Australia.

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<v Speaker 3>You don't have that anywhere else in the world where

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<v Speaker 3>the wedding break big isn't like playing in bars or

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<v Speaker 3>anything like that. It's in shopping centers.

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<v Speaker 1>Yep. It was actually in Mayers, in the missshop in

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<v Speaker 1>the women's clothes.

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<v Speaker 4>I so want to be here. Must have been a mad.

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<v Speaker 2>It was loud, especially just trying to do some shopping there,

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<v Speaker 2>trying to get some clothes.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, so I was.

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<v Speaker 1>It was on my lunch breash Wendy.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you very much she called me. That's a Sandra,

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<v Speaker 2>Good morning, Sandra, thy Sandra. So before they were famous?

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<v Speaker 2>Who have you seen before they became famous? And where

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<v Speaker 2>were they playing?

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<v Speaker 6>The fabulous Consentino He was playing at the Fun for

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<v Speaker 6>Kids festival and Warning Bull probably about eighteen to twenty

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<v Speaker 6>years ago.

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<v Speaker 3>So he was well, he didn't win, but he was

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<v Speaker 3>on Sorry he's got talent.

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<v Speaker 5>Yes, I remember a magician and an illusionist. Yeah, and

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<v Speaker 5>Australia's got talent. So this is before it was.

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<v Speaker 4>On TV, I think so yeah.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, nobody had ever heard of him before and he

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<v Speaker 6>absolutely blew everybody away. Then he was just doing his

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<v Speaker 6>his You know, the sort of Michael Jackson's style stuff,

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<v Speaker 6>but he does. I don't know. I just always think

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<v Speaker 6>of Michael Jackson when I when I see him, and

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<v Speaker 6>he just did his magic and he was he was fabulous.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know how you blend Michael Jackson with magic.

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<v Speaker 5>I guess was pretty anyway.

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<v Speaker 3>Sandra, thank you man very much. She called nobody, say Bobby.

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<v Speaker 4>You know you guys, here are you going.

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<v Speaker 6>I remember back in the early eighties we used to

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<v Speaker 6>see a band called Cockroaches. They come from Sydney and.

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<v Speaker 4>We follow them all over Melbourne for about.

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<v Speaker 6>Good sixty eight months and all that they went off

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<v Speaker 6>the scene.

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<v Speaker 4>Then we found out they turned into the Wiggles.

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<v Speaker 6>That's right, as a kid.

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<v Speaker 3>See that's what they were. Originally a pop band, weren't they.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, they were a pop band.

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<v Speaker 6>They had a big pop band.

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<v Speaker 4>Clue they were good. And then they just went up

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<v Speaker 4>and said we didn't know where they were.

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<v Speaker 6>Then they turned into the Wiggles.

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<v Speaker 3>They turns caterpillar. Bobby, thank you how much? She called

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<v Speaker 3>no worries, thank you very much much. The Christian O'Connell

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