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Speaker 1: You can catch on Stevens with Rod Stewart and Cindy Laubert.

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Speaker 1: I see Arena on March eleven, tickets through Tickettack and

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Speaker 1: John's joining us.

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Speaker 2: Now. Good morning, Good morning guys.

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Speaker 1: How are you very well? Hear your boys looking forward

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Speaker 1: to having you back in town.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Have you worked with Rod or Cindy before?

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Speaker 2: I haven't worked with Rod, but I've met him, met

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Speaker 2: him a couple of times. I worked with some of

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Speaker 2: his muss over the years, but he's He's still in

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Speaker 2: the top five greatest shows I've ever seen in my life.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh really.

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Speaker 2: I saw him back in the day in Not About

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Speaker 2: Money seventy seven, seventy eight. Yes, just an amazing show.

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Speaker 2: I've always loved his voice, and you know, I love

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Speaker 2: his character. He's a cheeky bugger.

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Speaker 3: He's a cheeky bugger. Yeah. Then he kicks kicks of

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Speaker 3: soccer balls out in the crowd and.

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Speaker 2: Has he has a lot of fun. I actually saw

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Speaker 2: him in twenty nineteen in the States when he was

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Speaker 2: in Vegas. I saw his show there. It was just phenomenal. So,

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Speaker 2: you know, to get the call up and and to

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Speaker 2: be asked to you know, before to the whole tour

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Speaker 2: of the Australia and he's younger. You know, I'm just

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Speaker 2: so excited to be able to stand side of stage

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Speaker 2: every night and watch the Master in action, you know,

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Speaker 2: because he's incredible. So and you know, Cimdy Lauper Simdy

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Speaker 2: Wopper was an old friend actually from back in the

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Speaker 2: late eighties. We we met her and we were touring

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Speaker 2: with Noiseworks. We met her in Italy together and you know,

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Speaker 2: over the years she'd come to Australian we catch up

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Speaker 2: and you know, she's an absolutely wonderful ladia. Yeah, very

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Speaker 2: and she's she's all hard, that girl. She's amazing. And

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Speaker 2: so I'm really really excited to see Cindy and to

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Speaker 2: hang out with her again. And you know, she's such

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Speaker 2: a beautiful person and you know, and you know, the

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Speaker 2: talent is beyond you know, so very humbly, you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm very excited to be singing with them guys, even

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Speaker 2: if it is on.

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Speaker 1: First He just said Rod Stewart was one of the

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Speaker 1: top five shows you've ever seen. Who else is in

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Speaker 1: the top five shows you've ever seen?

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Speaker 2: David Bowie, Yes, yes, yeah, back in the day, any

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Speaker 2: of them really, Yes, Yes, Rolling Stones and Paul McCarty.

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Speaker 3: It's a pretty solid top five. Yeah, you sing the best.

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Speaker 3: You're talking about Rod there being the master. If there

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Speaker 3: was one song that you could have a crack out,

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Speaker 3: what would it be? If one of his classics?

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Speaker 2: Oh god, there's so many. Maggie May was always a song,

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Speaker 2: you know, I just think you remember it as a

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Speaker 2: as a small kid. Really, you know, it was always playing,

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Speaker 2: It was always playing. I just love that song. Every

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Speaker 2: time I hear that particular song, it sort of takes

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Speaker 2: me back to that when I was that child again

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Speaker 2: a bazar. That song just immediately all these memories and

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Speaker 2: smells and you know, pictures come back to my head.

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Speaker 2: That's amazing, you know. So, yeah, that that one, that

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Speaker 2: song in particular.

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Speaker 1: The last time we spoke to John, you were in

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Speaker 1: town for By the Sea with the original Noise Works

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Speaker 1: line up. Did everything go as plan? Did you have

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Speaker 1: the time?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? We released a new album, Evolution, Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 2: and Stuart Fraser dear Old Stewary and we passed away.

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Speaker 2: He's on that played on the whole record. So we

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Speaker 2: just felt like we needed to get that record out

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Speaker 2: and honor Stuart's memory and also Obviously, when you do

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Speaker 2: do that, you need to go and do a few shows.

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Speaker 2: So we're actually finishing up that too as we speak.

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Speaker 2: We just finished in Sydney on the weekend and we

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Speaker 2: are we are hitting up. We're in Melbourne this week

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Speaker 2: and next week, so we've got about ten more shows

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Speaker 2: left of the of the Noise Rocks tour. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's it, and then back to John Stevens stuffing, doing

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Speaker 2: my own.

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Speaker 3: Thing, doing the thing live with your band. Okay, let's

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Speaker 3: talk about the Egyptian statue in the room Balie's eightieth

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Speaker 3: birthday party. And you weren't the only person who was

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Speaker 3: well known there, mate, How was it and who was there?

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Speaker 2: Well, I can honestly say that he was sober, so

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Speaker 2: that's good. Good pants up, pants up. I did notice

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Speaker 2: he was a big padlock on his pants, A decent belch. No,

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Speaker 2: dear old, dear old Molly. You know, he's you know,

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Speaker 2: he's he's old. He's getting old. He can hardly move

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Speaker 2: around much, but he's still got his wits about him.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's a bit slower, but he's still that guy,

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Speaker 2: that cheeky bugger. Yeah, you know, and yeah, it was good,

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Speaker 2: good to see him. Good to be there to celebrate him.

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Speaker 2: I first met Molly in nineteen eighty one. Wow, so

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Speaker 2: you know, forty two years ago I met that man

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Speaker 2: his life exactly. So yeah, it was it was lovely

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Speaker 2: to be there to pay respects to the great Mully Melchium.

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Speaker 1: And he's earn't that respect because he genuinely has had

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Speaker 1: such an influence on music, hasn't he massive?

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Speaker 2: Massive? And you know all all the people that have

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Speaker 2: come out, you know, to say about the effect he's

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Speaker 2: had on music known from my daughters thing, you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean everyone need obviously and yeah, everyone loved money.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and how many people of a generation watch Countdown

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Speaker 3: every Sunday night?

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Speaker 2: Mate?

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Speaker 3: And then later his influenced with hate Saturday he had

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Speaker 3: those two vehicles to push them with his passion changed. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I feel sorry for kids today and not having something

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Speaker 1: like Countdown to look forward to. But I mean there's

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Speaker 1: too much choice now that they can get it everywhere.

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Speaker 1: But it was such a just such a moment every

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Speaker 1: Sunday night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. Well, now they've got TikTok and the

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Speaker 2: yeah explode every format and for him, yeah, that's right overload. Well,

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Speaker 2: nothing's a good live concert. Absolutely right, Rod Stewart, Cyndy Lauper,

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Speaker 2: I mean until the gravest of all time. So you know,

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Speaker 2: there you at Media Equation, that's going to be.

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Speaker 1: Just a nightful of it's going to be a nightful

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Speaker 1: of wonderful. It's that the rac Arena on March eleven

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Speaker 1: and tickets are through Tick Attack. John Stevens always like

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Speaker 1: to chat.

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Speaker 2: To catch up guys. Likewise, see Perst.

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Speaker 3: John Stevens fans will be adding big numbers and you

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Speaker 3: know when you see him in the front row, might

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Speaker 3: all the time.

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Speaker 2: Cheers goes all the best