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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's.

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Speaker 2: It's like the Leo Zone.

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Speaker 3: Leo Sayer Zone.

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Speaker 2: Love talking to this guy.

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Speaker 4: He has a voice that makes us all feel like dancing,

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Speaker 4: and just as well because he's warming up his vocal

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Speaker 4: cars in preparation to take to the stage for an

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Speaker 4: upcoming tour.

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Speaker 2: Leo Sayer, Hello, how are you doing guys?

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Speaker 3: Very well? You know, because we played your song. We

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Speaker 3: have no time to talk to you now.

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Speaker 2: Bye, Leo Leo.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, just dust off those cop gobwebs, throw

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Speaker 1: your fears. I'm all right.

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Speaker 4: So how have you coped during Lockdown? I mean, have

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Speaker 4: you missed performing? Because I know you're really prolific.

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Speaker 1: No, I have. I live in the Southern Highlands and

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Speaker 1: I have my own studio here Big Barn, and I've

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Speaker 1: made a new album tributing the Beatles, which will be

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Speaker 1: out later this year, and I'm always working on things.

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Speaker 1: And when I wrote a song called My City in

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Speaker 1: Lockdown when it was all going Helen, Helen heads up

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Speaker 1: in Melbourne and yeah, you know a bit of social

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Speaker 1: commentary tracks, I mean out all the time. I can't rest.

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Speaker 3: Did you know you would have hung out with the Beatles?

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Speaker 3: Surely in your life.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look all of them except that. Well. I did

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Speaker 1: hang out with John because I worked in a little

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Speaker 1: design studio in the late sixties and he and the

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Speaker 1: Oko had a flat next door, and he used to

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Speaker 1: come downstairs for a cicky and I'd be leaning on

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Speaker 1: the rail railing of the road outside you on the street,

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Speaker 1: and he'd said, oh, well are you I'd say, yeah, fine, yeah,

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Speaker 1: how's it going. I didn't dare to talk to mister Lennon,

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Speaker 1: but he was so conversational, and he'd say a roll

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Speaker 1: with weights or gold, yeah, gold, gold, you know, whatever

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Speaker 1: they were, and we'd swapped cigarette brands conversations on that.

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Speaker 1: Then years and years later, when he was recording in

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Speaker 1: New York, I was working with a keyboard play called

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Speaker 1: a sax play called Bobby Keyes, who was in the

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Speaker 1: law Stones and in his band. And Bobby said, come on,

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Speaker 1: we're going to meet Lennon. He really wants to see you.

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Speaker 1: And something went pear shaped and I had an interview

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Speaker 1: to do or something like that. I couldn't make it,

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Speaker 1: so he said, it's John on the phone. We were

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Speaker 1: in the lobby of the hotel. No mobiles in those days,

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Speaker 1: and John says, where the fuck, are you sorry? I

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Speaker 1: said that.

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Speaker 2: It's John the pony mouth, not you, and.

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Speaker 1: We had a lovely chat. And then we had a

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Speaker 1: lovely chat. But you know what's sad about that? That

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Speaker 1: was a week before he was assassinator.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow.

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Speaker 1: But I knew John Paul very well, and you know

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Speaker 1: sort of. Paul has always been a fantastic supporter for me.

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Speaker 3: Didn't you go on didn't you go on Ringo Stars

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Speaker 3: Private Jet? You told me a story once that you

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Speaker 3: were on Ringo Stars Private jol No.

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Speaker 1: I took his holiday. He was going to the Say

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Speaker 1: Shales and at the last minute he couldn't go. So

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Speaker 1: you phone me and just said, do you want this holiday?

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Speaker 1: And I said, that sounds like a dream. And I've

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Speaker 1: just been going out with Donna Keller at the time,

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Speaker 1: starting our relationship, so it was like our honeymoon and.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, Well luckily he wasn't going to double holiday.

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Speaker 2: No offense to double holiday. I'm going down a place.

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Speaker 3: Did he swear at you as well?

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Speaker 1: Well? I was living in the UK at the time,

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Speaker 1: so it was a little bit close to the double

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Speaker 1: But I also used to go motor racing with George

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Speaker 1: Harrison and George became I think my closest friend with

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Speaker 1: the Beatles. In fact, the last time that George played

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Speaker 1: a gig, we were both. We put together a band

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Speaker 1: for Damon Hill's fortieth birthday. It was a very secret

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Speaker 1: gig and we all went in disguise. You're not going

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Speaker 1: to believe this. I went as a Nazi general. It was.

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Speaker 1: It was hilarious. George went with Olivia and Danny his

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Speaker 1: son as the three amigos.

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Speaker 3: Right, and what was the pope?

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Speaker 2: What did you do? Who was the post? Who is

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Speaker 2: the post?

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Speaker 1: Ringo? You as a Nazi general got because we were

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Speaker 1: all close to Gay and you know, I mean, we

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Speaker 1: all loved Damon. George was one of Damon's biggest supporters.

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Speaker 1: Me too, I guess so so you know, and when

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Speaker 1: Damon won the championship, it was the greatest moment for

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Speaker 1: all of us, you know. And what did you do

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Speaker 1: with your It was hilarious.

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Speaker 3: What did you do with the frow? What did you

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Speaker 3: do with your fro?

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Speaker 1: I tucked it in. I had it all jelled back

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Speaker 1: and had the cap in. You're right, and I was

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Speaker 1: giving Fir the law most politically increased than God. There

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Speaker 1: are no Damon came a sit vicious I mean, thank.

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Speaker 2: Photos and what did George go as?

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Speaker 1: What did you know the three Amigos? You know, you said,

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Speaker 1: of course Steve Martin, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Martin, you know

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Speaker 1: all that, the three Aregos. They were hilarious, even Olivia

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Speaker 1: with a tash.

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Speaker 2: It was hilarious. George's wife.

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Speaker 1: Was there. And if you knew, John came as Murray Antoinette,

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Speaker 1: this is just making there not Jerremy Clarkson came as

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Speaker 1: you know, Raiders of the Lost Dark with a bloody

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Speaker 1: whip Indiana. Yeah, and there simply simply read. Singer Mick

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Speaker 1: Ham was doing with us as well. I can't remember

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Speaker 1: why John's holland oh my god, the world was there.

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Speaker 1: Gary Brooker, the great Greatest band had a ball. I

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Speaker 1: think I left there about two days later.

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Speaker 4: Wow or else you're making all of this up and

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Speaker 4: it's fascinating.

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Speaker 1: The drinks down, No no press allowed, no video, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know you could twist my arm and

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Speaker 1: you might get a photo. But it was hilarious. When

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Speaker 1: I went to Burman's and Nathan's the costumers and said

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Speaker 1: I want to Hitler costume, they went mad.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I wonder while good step.

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Speaker 2: We're trying to save you here.

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Speaker 3: To catch le Say alive and concentration seventy three.

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Speaker 1: Career could be over now.

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Speaker 3: In this never stop being with you head to Leo

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Speaker 3: Sayer dot com. It's such a treat to catch up. Okay,

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Speaker 3: look after yourself, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: We're looking forward to Waitful Sun on Friday. Yes, Marsa Hines,

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Speaker 1: that's going to be cool. And then we go off

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Speaker 1: on the Good Times Tour and there's more gigs going

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Speaker 1: to be announced this year. So look, Australia's back to

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Speaker 1: live gigs. Isn't that fair?

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Speaker 2: We can't wait to see you, thank you, talk.

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Speaker 1: To you to please get a room.

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Speaker 2: I think we're in not so lovely played another song.

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Speaker 1: Get the Royalties.

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Speaker 3: He's on the bones

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Speaker 1: Seeing Amanda's gamnation