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Speaker 1: Let Me Tell You a Story on Time Clearsy releases

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Speaker 1: The Story behind the song.

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Speaker 2: Horror Movie is a song by Skyhooks, released in December

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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy four as the second and final single from

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Speaker 2: the band's debut studio album Living in the Seventies. It

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Speaker 2: peaked at number one in Australia, staying there for two

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Speaker 2: weeks in March nineteen seventy five. It's greatly helped along

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Speaker 2: by the band's appearance on Countdown. In fact, Countdown made

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Speaker 2: an in house video featuring the band at Lunar Park

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Speaker 2: in Melbourne, as well as miming the song in front

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Speaker 2: of an audience. It was broadcast on the very first

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Speaker 2: day of color television.

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Speaker 1: I'm real They broadcast that.

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Speaker 2: Video and at the nineteen seventy five King of Pop Awards,

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Speaker 2: Horror Movie won Australian Record of the Year. But what

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Speaker 2: is it all about, ALFI yeah.

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Speaker 1: I know, well this one was producing. This album was

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Speaker 1: produced by Ross Wilson, who had so much success with

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Speaker 1: Daddy Coole and Lama Mondo Rock. And it was written

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Speaker 1: by Greg mccaink who wrote so many great songs. He

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Speaker 1: was really good at writing, really good Australian songs, particularly

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Speaker 1: from his beloved Melbourne. He wrote Carlton the Old like

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Speaker 1: on Street, Limbo and Baldwin calling So talking about the

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Speaker 1: inn some of the real famous suburbs of Melbourne. But Greg,

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Speaker 1: if you want to remember who Greg was, look at

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Speaker 1: the video Google today the video of the guy on

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Speaker 1: the bass guitar and John Farnham's You're the Voice video.

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Speaker 1: That's him. Okay, he's the man now he wrote this song.

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Speaker 1: And you know, you think about the songs that were

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Speaker 1: signature tunes for this band, Skyhook's it was Women in

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Speaker 1: Uniform Ego and Horror Movie. But he talks here Greg

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Speaker 1: mcach talking about the influencers and some of the inspiration

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Speaker 1: behind the song.

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Speaker 3: Well, horror movie the song. I remember, there's two songs

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Speaker 3: that I sort of attribute to being a bit of

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Speaker 3: an influence for that song. And one was a Frank

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Speaker 3: Zappa song called Trouble Coming every Day, which is fifteen

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Speaker 3: minutes long, I think, and it's all about the news

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Speaker 3: and the media. So that hadn't add an effect on me,

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Speaker 3: but it's it's a different sort of song to Horror Movie,

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Speaker 3: but with a similar kind of sentiments I think. And

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Speaker 3: then there was a spectrum song called the Son of

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Speaker 3: the Son of Sitting Bull, which had these great sort

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Speaker 3: of tom tom groove in it. And I think subconsciously

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Speaker 3: I would have been affected by the Vietnam War because

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Speaker 3: there was a lot of footage on television and live

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Speaker 3: footage of the war, which was something that never ever

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Speaker 3: happened before in human history. I don't think. So. Once again,

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Speaker 3: that must have just bubbled up into my consciousness and

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Speaker 3: the words came out, you know, horror movie. It's the

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Speaker 3: six thirty News, which you try and be as succinct

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Speaker 3: as you can and to the point, and people who

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Speaker 3: will interpret it however they like. But once again, given

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Speaker 3: the blueprint was a live band, one wanted to be

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Speaker 3: to the point and leave no doubt about what you

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Speaker 3: were talking about.

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Speaker 1: The dews like watching a horror movie. Sounds for a melion,

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Speaker 1: doesn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The trend continues and I remember when the news was

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Speaker 1: on at six thirty.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, starts at five and it goes on god.

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Speaker 1: Knows what sort of reset every half hour, every hour.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But what a great song, what a history making song.

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Speaker 1: As you said, it went to number one in Australia,

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Speaker 1: continued that incredible success though having on Michael Godinsky's Mushroom Records. Simple,

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Speaker 1: simple song, absolutely and yeah and you can hear great

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Speaker 1: longevity of it. And talking about the influences, you would

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Speaker 1: never have thought Frank Zappwold he been an influence on

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Speaker 1: those guys certainly were so from living in the seventies.

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Speaker 1: The Mighty Skyhawks on this story behind the song,