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Speaker 1: Job mission with Jones and Amanda. It's with great sadness

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Speaker 1: that we announced the passing of Glenn Wheatley. He died

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Speaker 1: after suffering complications from COVID nineteen. He was seventy four

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Speaker 1: years of age.

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Speaker 2: Glen Wheatley, he and his beautiful wife Gainor. I remember

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Speaker 2: gay Or on television. I think she was on Skyways.

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Speaker 2: Was it Gainor Cross As she was there? Yes, but

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Speaker 2: they have been such a tight unit for so many years,

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Speaker 2: and at any event they go out of their way

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Speaker 2: to come up and say hello to me. I'm just

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Speaker 2: shocked at this news this morning, what everyone has wonderful

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Speaker 2: things to say about Glenn Wheatley. He's just a wonderful,

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Speaker 2: wonderful man, and everyone's just in shock this morning. I

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Speaker 2: wasn't aware that because I knew him, or we all

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Speaker 2: know him, I guess as John Farnham's right hand man

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Speaker 2: and the manager who turned his career around.

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Speaker 1: Anybody played in mean bass guitar as well.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't aware that he'd been in bands of his

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Speaker 2: own master's apprentices.

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Speaker 1: This song because I Love You another big hit too.

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Speaker 1: I turned up your radio in yourself doing it now

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Speaker 1: yesterday you remember I'm gonna hear it now Radio grat so.

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Speaker 2: So yes, he was a musician himself. He was a manager,

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Speaker 2: and not only of John Farnham. He also discovered Delta

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Speaker 2: Gudrum in her late teens. He helped her launch her

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Speaker 2: Innocent Eyes album in two thousand and three, which became

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Speaker 2: one of the highest selling albums in ARIA chart history.

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Speaker 2: But of course we know him best, I think, as

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Speaker 2: as we said of his partnership with John Farnham, he

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Speaker 2: mortgaged his home to bankroll Farnham's comeback album in nineteen

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Speaker 2: eighty six, Whispering Jack.

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Speaker 1: And that was such a both their lives. That was

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Speaker 1: such an amazing thing because John Farnham was going back

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Speaker 1: to being just be working on the farm and doing

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Speaker 1: some plumbing work and stuff like that, and Wheatley rang

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Speaker 1: him up and said, come on, I think you can

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Speaker 1: come back. You can And it was a Russ Wilson song.

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Speaker 1: You're the voice to know he wrote the other one,

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Speaker 1: the other John Farnham song. But anyway, the song came

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Speaker 1: back and Wheatley implored John Farnham, I mean the people

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Speaker 1: that wrote you r the voice to let John Farnham

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Speaker 1: sing it. And it was like a real risk. It

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Speaker 1: was a real risk.

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Speaker 2: It's still one of the biggest selling Australian albums of

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Speaker 2: all time was Whispering Jack.

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Speaker 1: And it brought him back. And I still love those ads.

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Speaker 1: They remember the Telstrap of commercials they used to do,

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Speaker 1: Glenn Wheatley and John farther right and and Glenna but

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Speaker 1: just they had this lovely chemistry. But remember that time

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Speaker 1: Wheatley's in some boardroom meeting and Farnum's out on his

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Speaker 1: farm surrounded by sheep, and wheat rings him.

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Speaker 2: Wait, quere, how are you?

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Speaker 1: Do you know?

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Speaker 2: The big meaning's about to start? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: And I was it coming in loud and player, you

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Speaker 1: must be just around the corner. You'll get clearer reception

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Speaker 1: from more places with Telstra Mobile on net CDMA, the

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Speaker 1: network that gives more coverage to more Australians.

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Speaker 2: Well twelf now, well, I won't be long weeks.

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Speaker 1: I'm just stuck in traffic, stuck in the sheep traffic.

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Speaker 2: It hasn't all been smooth sailing for Glenn Wheatley. Do

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Speaker 2: you remember in two thousand and seven he's convicted of

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Speaker 2: tax fraud. He went to jail for fifteen months. He

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Speaker 2: said it was the darkest, hardest period of his life,

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Speaker 2: and he hit rock bottom. But he turned his prison

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Speaker 2: stay into a daily regime of working out, yoga and meditation.

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Speaker 2: He said he had to do that to survive.

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Speaker 1: Well, fifteen months, that's to normal people, that's a long stretcher.

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Speaker 1: If you're a jailbird, though, fifteen months you do that

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Speaker 1: on your head. What's a jailbird? If five years is

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Speaker 1: if you're in jail, five years. If you're a jailbird,

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Speaker 1: a jailbird.

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Speaker 2: And so how I mean you know jailbirds and so

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Speaker 2: five years.

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Speaker 1: Five years, it's like five years. Po Okay, that's that.

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Speaker 1: You don't want five years fifteen months.

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Speaker 2: But you wouldn't want fifteen months.

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Speaker 1: Number fifteen months. You can get in there and you know,

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Speaker 1: you just it's different. It's you know, if you go

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Speaker 1: to jail.

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Speaker 2: If you go to jail, sure it's unlikely, but.

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Speaker 1: Well you never know. You never know.

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Speaker 2: Interesting too that in twenty twenty, when protesters were using

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Speaker 2: John Farnham's You're the Voice anthem at their anti vax rallies,

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Speaker 2: he spoke out against that. He wrote an opinion piece

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Speaker 2: for The Herald's Son saying John feels very strongly he

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Speaker 2: doesn't want your the voice to be used in these circumstances. Agree,

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Speaker 2: and he's and apparently he and Farnham had been working

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Speaker 2: on a new album. It's just this is just inexplicable

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Speaker 2: news to hear that he's passed away, and we send

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Speaker 2: our condolences to gain Or into their.

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Speaker 1: Family, Rest in peace. Glen Whitley, Jonesy and Amanda's salation