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Speaker 1: Jam Mission with Jonesy and Amanda. If you were a

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Speaker 1: teenager in the nineteen seventies in Australia, you will know

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Speaker 1: the name Sister Janet Mead sad to hear of her

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Speaker 1: passing last night. Those homie pets they would allowed in

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Speaker 1: the church. Then Brent I spoke about her on my

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Speaker 1: instag yesterday and there are number of comments saying I

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Speaker 1: remember every word to her song. You think, well, it

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Speaker 1: actually is the Lord's Prayer. But okay, I'm all right.

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Speaker 1: That song was ballistic for her. That was nineteen seventy four.

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Speaker 1: It was the first Australian record to sell more than

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Speaker 1: one million copies in America. It went to number four

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Speaker 1: on the Billboard Charts, number three in Australia. It was

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Speaker 1: a massive, massive She could warn the streets. Did she

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Speaker 1: have other songs? Yes she did. She had this one

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Speaker 1: here this is good brother Son's Sister Moon and it's

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Speaker 1: not the fave. No, no, maybe that was all filler

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Speaker 1: on the track. There was this one called Amen, It's

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Speaker 1: raining Amen like this. She had this one take my hand.

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Speaker 1: I'd probably go up to the bar to gain some

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Speaker 1: holy wine this time. And I said she had this

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Speaker 1: know that's right. She went on to tour with Slayer.

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Speaker 1: When you talk about her touring and the rock and

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Speaker 1: roll life, she found it all very overwhelming. She was

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Speaker 1: a reluctant and unlikely pop star and she was nominated

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Speaker 1: for a Grammy. She was shocked to find herself in

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Speaker 1: those situations. She did a rare interview in twenty fifteen

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Speaker 1: where she was inducted to the South Australian Music Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame. Do you know all the royalties from her

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Speaker 1: version of the Lord's Prayer were put into supporting the

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Speaker 1: work of her religious order till the day she died.

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Speaker 1: She was doing a lot of great work in her community.

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Speaker 1: She was an extraordinary woman. And she said that she

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Speaker 1: felt that she was kind of naive and signed a

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Speaker 1: contract she didn't understand, and she felt really that she'd

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Speaker 1: been ripped off financially. She wouldn't be the first no,

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Speaker 1: that's right, but it wasn't in her nature to pursue

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Speaker 1: this stuff. She said, the whole thing was quite mad.

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Speaker 1: I only agreed to make a record because I thought

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Speaker 1: we could produce tapes to hand out at the cathedral

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Speaker 1: rock Masses in Adelaide. She said that she rejected her

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Speaker 1: fame and quit the recording career because she found pop

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Speaker 1: stardom quote a horrible time and made her question her faith.

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Speaker 1: She said, I told everyone this wasn't going to be

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Speaker 1: my profession, that my students came first and the music

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Speaker 1: world would have to wait. But it was very hard

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Speaker 1: to keep it at bay, but she did. She stepped

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Speaker 1: away from that because her true calling was not to

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Speaker 1: be a pop star, it was to be a nun.

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Speaker 1: So probably, you know, if she wasn't like your regular

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Speaker 1: pop star. She was not throwing TVs out of the hotel.

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Speaker 1: She ran straight to the bedside table for the Gideon Bible,

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Speaker 1: her only entourage. She had three in her entourage, father,

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Speaker 1: the Son and the Holy Ghost. Oh, sister Janet Mead.

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Speaker 1: That's a you know, an incredible woman and such a

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Speaker 1: great reminder of a wonderful moment in Australian musical history.

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Speaker 1: Rest in peace, Jonesy and Amanda's