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Speaker 1: Hey, Now that I thought was one of the ones

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Speaker 1: where we went we got this covered.

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Speaker 2: I think we had it covered. I think we could

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Speaker 2: all talk about this one for a while.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes in different areas, but this was all good to.

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Speaker 2: Kick one two.

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Speaker 3: An envelope contains the music topic to discuss this.

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Speaker 1: Five minutes on the clock to feel and there's no

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Speaker 1: time to prep This is banter with Clezy and Lisa.

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Speaker 3: Are we ready?

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Speaker 1: We are ready? Are you ready?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Opening letter envelope. Don't smack me in the face.

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Speaker 1: Oh of course I wouldn't. You're not Chris.

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Speaker 3: All right, Okay, Elton.

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Speaker 1: John, there you go. Time has begun.

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Speaker 2: Well, Elton John. Yeah, he's been around since. Time has

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Speaker 2: begun seventy five last week. He did turn seventy five

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Speaker 2: last week. There were some times when Elton thought he

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Speaker 2: wouldn't get there.

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Speaker 1: You reckon.

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Speaker 3: He's done well and he knows it.

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Speaker 1: Probably no more valid pointment was when he tried to

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Speaker 1: take his own life that time by and they wrote

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Speaker 1: the song he suck his head in an oven Elton

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Speaker 1: John and the song.

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Speaker 3: Someone referring to some of his you know nose powder.

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Speaker 1: Recreation.

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Speaker 3: He flew over the Alps and said I've snorted.

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Speaker 2: That, oh dear in that and of course other things

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Speaker 2: were around.

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Speaker 1: And he wrote so much someone Saved my life and

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Speaker 1: I was very that's an incredible song, and that was

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Speaker 1: the song written after that because he got rescued his

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Speaker 1: head and probably not the best way to do it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: people doing it, Yeah, not good at all. So Elton

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Speaker 1: is still with us and still standing up seventy five

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Speaker 1: and we've seen a lot of Elton lately. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's coming out talking about his wonderful friends who we've

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Speaker 1: lost recently. Like your likes of Shame Warner be part

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Speaker 1: of what's going and what's going on. He would have

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Speaker 1: been part of what went on with Shane Warn passing

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Speaker 1: away tributes.

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Speaker 2: His Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour has been interrupted by

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Speaker 2: COVID several times now. It already was a like a

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Speaker 2: three year thing in the plan and then it's been interrupted.

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Speaker 3: We both had the fortune of seeing him. Was it again.

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Speaker 1: Been lots of names over the years and show I

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Speaker 2: Elton John probably three times over the last fifteen to

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Speaker 2: twenty years, and I thought that, you know, he wouldn't

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Speaker 2: be well, You.

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Speaker 3: Would think that age wouldn't go.

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Speaker 2: He would age, and he would be the show wouldn't

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Speaker 2: be as good this time as it was like that

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Speaker 2: first time I saw him twenty years ago, but it

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Speaker 2: was better.

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Speaker 1: So mind blowing.

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Speaker 2: It's like he had a little bit of a moment

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Speaker 2: so on around the you know, sort of mid two

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Speaker 2: thousands and the late two thousands, and then he came

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Speaker 2: back with this show and it was like, this guy's

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Speaker 2: better than I've ever seen him.

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Speaker 1: That not he played with So that was weird. Billy

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Speaker 1: Joel the face to face tour.

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Speaker 3: It was starting to slow.

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Speaker 1: It was a little it was still good because you

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Speaker 1: as well. So it's a little bit competition between those

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Speaker 1: two piano men, let's be honest. So Elton wasn't going

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Speaker 1: to let his guard down. The last time i'd seen

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Speaker 1: before the Farewell to I'd seen Elton do a show

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Speaker 1: about Burrswood or somewhere, and he was going through the motions.

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Speaker 1: There was no doubt he was pointing to the crowd

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Speaker 1: between songs, you know, doing that thing where he's just

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Speaker 1: pointing to random you know, not actually a person. So

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Speaker 1: you could tell that he was sort of on a

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Speaker 1: tell with that last show and it was a beautiful

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Speaker 1: farewell to Perth. He talked about the venues, whether at

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Speaker 1: when I'm playing tonight, you know, he remember them all

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Speaker 1: and he was very genuine the way that they wrap

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Speaker 1: it up, and that was one of those memorable nights.

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Speaker 3: Well, he loves Australia. He chose Australia to get married.

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Speaker 2: Just the weirdest thing that ever happened, because it was

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Speaker 2: it's like he was the last one to realize you're gay, mate.

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Speaker 2: We were all like bred Elton, you're gay.

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Speaker 1: The last little bit of denial.

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Speaker 3: What was going on. Yes, he's married this woman, Ranata.

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Speaker 3: They're still friends.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it wasn't you know, I mean when they

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Speaker 2: said is there anyone here that has anything to say

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Speaker 2: before the Australia put a land up queue you're gay.

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Speaker 2: But anyway he got married to Renata.

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Speaker 3: That was a moment.

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Speaker 2: Now, of course he's been extraordinarily happily ensconced with his

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that whole episode with Renada was bizarre, and we

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Speaker 1: saw it in the movie. You know that the sort

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Speaker 1: mansion and all that stuff. Elton john when you think

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Speaker 1: about that incredible lifelong or career long relationship he's had

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Speaker 1: with Bernie Torbin, the fact that they created such magic

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Speaker 1: together where he would write the music.

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Speaker 2: And Bernie would come never together, you know, like that

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Speaker 2: is incredible.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is amazing. And they said that, you know

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Speaker 1: in Elton saying Goodbye to the world, and Bernie said,

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Speaker 1: we never had a blue.

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Speaker 3: No, because because they weren't in the same room.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 2: It would be interesting to see what they would produce

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Speaker 2: if they were in the same room, to see how

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Speaker 2: it probably wouldn't work. You probably right when you mess

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Speaker 2: with a winning formula, Boy did they have a winning form.

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Speaker 1: So many incredible songs over the years.

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Speaker 2: Okay, a favorite Elton song, can you narrow it down?

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Speaker 1: I always love for a long time because I love

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Speaker 1: the rock sound and I love I always loved his band,

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Speaker 1: those great players, Davey Johnson and Nigel Lawson and those

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Speaker 1: guys in his band. But I always love Saturday nights

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Speaker 1: all right for fighting. I love the guitar and how

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Speaker 1: many How can you pick a favorite job?

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Speaker 3: I do love the Head and the Oven song.

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Speaker 1: Someone said my life to.

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Speaker 2: It's not called the Head in the Oven song, but

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Speaker 2: that is a ripper. But I'm a bit of a traditionalist.

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Speaker 2: I'm a sucker for tiny answer.

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Speaker 1: You like that one. But Elton John, after all his

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Speaker 1: seventy five still standing bands. The time is over thirty

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Speaker 1: six a FM for Funch, Clezy and Lisa