I'm in Fremantle in Western Australia to meet rock royalty.
The Hoodoo Gurus rattled the windows and made the floorboards bounce
in thousands of venues around Australia and beyond.
So much dancing.
It is the dapper, erudite, fabulous, Dave Faulkner.
Oh, well played. (CLAPS)
I am just hanging at a stop sign waiting for you.
(LAUGHS) How are you, Julia? Dave, look at this magnificent beast.
Unbelievable. Mwah.
How are you? Good to see you.
Now, why this car?
Well my father bought a car very similar.
It wasn't this model actually - it was a couple of years later.
The EK.
And, uh... that was our big wagon when we were growing up,
and we went across the Nullarbor in it and everything.
So all of you kids...
You went across the Nullarbor? Yes, yes.
And where were you? I was in the back.
I was 10 years old and, uh... basically I slept on the floor
and my brothers had to put their legs up on the front bench seat.
That is incredible. And you're still here to tell the story.
No, actually I loved it. It was an amazing experience.
(OPENING RIFF TO TED MULRY GANG'S JUMP IN MY CAR)
♪ Jump in my car
♪ I wanna take you home
(LAUGHS) ♪ Jump in my car
♪ It's too far to walk your own
Oh, someone has just gone, "Love your car."
Thank you!
Dave Faulkner emerged from Perth's music scene in the late 1970s
in The Victims,
one of Australia's most ferocious and exciting punk bands.
Moving across the continent, Dave formed the legendary Hoodoo Gurus.
With hits like What's My Scene, Like Wow - Wipe-out,
and 1000 Miles Away,
they continue to be one of the country's favourite live bands.
♪ Like now Like wow
♪ Wipeout
♪ No doubt
♪ But I was gone the moment I laid eyes on you. ♪
Thank you! (CHEERING)
Oh, stop it.
This is Mojo's Bar now.
When I played here originally, it was called The Stoned Crow.
So how many bands did you play with in this venue?
Only this one little duo I was in with a guy I knew from school
and it was called, sadly, Dave and I.
In those days I was a keyboard player.
Punk made me want to play guitar,
and I didn't teach myself guitar until about... I was 18 years old.
Well, it sounds like you were quite popular here already
because you played for Alan Bond's son at his 21st.
(LAUGHS) You heard about that. Tell me about that.
Like, I was in a blues band.
That was my first professional band, actually. Called The Beagle Boys.
The Beagle Boys kind of got me, as I said, my first professional gig.
I was 18 and, you know, touring.
And this other band I was in called Midget and the Farrellys.
This sort of little... Midget and the Farrellys?
Yes, yes. All these... Terrible names, aren't they?
No. I think they're genius and gold, is what I think.
Yeah Midget and the Farrellys was this sort of fun little band
that just played quirky weird covers
and we were asked to play
Alan Bond's son, Craig Bond's 21st birthday party.
It was a toga party. A toga party.
Yes.
I saw Alan Bond dressed as Nero running around his house
and it was quite a sight.
It's so perfect.
There comes a point, I suppose, when you have to leave.
How do you choose where to go?
Well, it had to be either Sydney or Melbourne.
They were the 2 cities for the record industry
and they still are to this day in terms of, you know, being discovered
or, you know, making a viable career out of playing original music,
which was our whole thing in the punk scene.
You know, we wanted to write our own songs and play those.
So you get to Sydney and you establish the Hoodoo Gurus.
The band was so popular.
There was obviously a great kind of connection
between everybody in that band.
What do you put that longevity down to?
Purely to passion.
You know, we just love playing and really we are just music nuts.
You know it's not... it's not about adoration and all that.
It's just literally doing the most enjoyable thing you can possibly do.
At the height of your popularity, though, you break up the band.
What was behind that?
There was a fear
that maybe we will get to the point where people are sick of us
and don't want to see us any more
and we'll be like the pathetic band
who could be in The Stoned Crow
just in the corner with 5 people, you know,
not even paying attention, you know,
and saying, "Well, who are they?" you know.
I thought, "Let's just quit while were ahead,
"while we're still on top and people still want to see us,
"and say, 'Let's move on.'"
A few years later, you're asked to do Home Bake,
and Hoodoo Gurus get back together. Were you nervous?
We'd been broken up for 4 years at that point.
We actually came to Western Australia
and did a few warm-up shows
just to kind of not go on stage as our first gig.
The very first show was amazing.
It was just like
literally the band had just stepped off stage the week before
and we were just doing one more gig.
So that was a shock.
And what it said to me was,
"the Hoodoo Gurus are still around and together -
"it's just you won't let them out of the garage to play," you know.
It was like having a sports car up on blocks.
You've got to take it for a drive -
you can't just keep it under wraps and let no one touch it or see it.
Shall we head off to Belmont where you grew up?
We shall indeed. I'd love to go there.
And we auditioned for The Beagle Boys in that house.
They didn't know who I was. I just walked in cold off the street.
I said, "Um... I hear you're looking for a keyboard player,"
and they went "What?"
Over here we have the Dingo Flour symbol.
Oh, that is quite beautiful.
Alan Bond painted that when he was a young man.
He was maintaining that facade.
This used to be the old Swan Brewery, of course.
There was another brewery, Red Castle Brewery, when I was young
that was actually in Rivervale
that we used to stop at and pick up bottles of beer -
my father in his Harley Davidson and me in the side car.
Your Dad had a Harley Davidson?
Yeah, yeah - it was a... That's excellent.
Yeah, that was our...
Before we had cars, you know, that was kind of our main transport.
That's it there, I think.
111. There it is. So I'll go left here.
Yeah, go left here.
This is where we lived.
Your busy street Dave. It is.
We had a couple of dogs, you know, skittled on this street.
Oh, what were their names?
Uh... well, one was... the big one was...
..well, when I was growing up, was Gypsy.
OK, that's different.
We never had a veranda like that.
It's changed considerably.
What about the garden? We never had a garden.
My father was terrible at gardening.
And who lived in this house?
Both my brothers and my sister.
So they're all still alive.
Greg's the eldest and Trevor is next and then Steph, my sister.
Oh, so you're the little one? I'm the baby.
Did you ever sit on the veranda and have a bit of a...?
Of course. Of course. Mrs Grouser was always looking at us, though.
Oh tell me about Mrs Grouser.
From the very first day we moved in,
she seemed incredibly curious about us.
She was basically a big busybody and, you know, nosey parker.
So whenever you looked out there, she'd be there looking at you.
And what did she think the Faulkner family were doing?
I don't know, but... I mean, I made her pay later on in life.
I mean, I actually feel sorry for the poor lady
because she did have to suffer through my piano lessons.
You know, self-taught piano lessons.
I used to break strings I used to be such a heavy pounder on the piano.
And I'd get up at 5 in the morning and start on a school day.
Perfect revenge.
It wasn't meant to be revenge, but I just was obsessed.
A long time since this happened.
Ah, is it? How long?
Ah, God I haven't been here since 1980 something or other.
1980 something or other.
Here's where I had the piano.
The piano was right here. The piano was at an angle.
That's what it was.
And I started teaching myself
and I just... yeah, basically worked out how to play chords,
triads for the songs I liked, like Beatles songs or whatever.
It would teach me about the underlying harmony anyway
and also we were a musical family.
My sister was a great singer. My mother was a singer.
And so we'd also sing
and I'd do the harmonies and they'd just do the melodies.
TV was somewhere there.
Were you a TV family? Absolutely.
I'd come home from school
and because, you know, my mother worked and my father worked...
So I would be a latch key child, so to speak.
I'd come home at 3:30 whatever from school, 4 o'clock,
and there were sitcoms, you know, start to finish
from 3 o'clock onwards, I think.
So I was watching McHale's Navy, My Favourite Martian,
you know, Addams Family, you know Green Acres, whatever - you name it.
I have read somewhere that you have got quite the...
..well, the love for Donald Duck.
My father was in the navy,
so, um... you know, I really related to the navy,
the fact that Donald Duck had a sailor suit on.
And, uh... also I loved Donald
because he was a cranky, you know, SOB.
You're right. Whereas Mickey was so annoying.
You know, he was such a smarmy little git
and also Donald of course was funny
because the world was his enemy most of the time.
You know, things would just go wrong and he'd get frustrated.
Yeah, this is Mum and Dad's room.
Were kids allowed to get into the bed and jump in with Mum and Dad?
I used to sleep in the bed with Mum and Dad always as a little kid yeah.
Oh, did you? Yeah for sure.
Oh.
The thing I've got to admit to now, which is my...
..the thing that I was most cursed by when I was a kid
was my nickname from the rest of... my brothers and my sister,
which I hated. Which was?
Uh, I was called Pest and I loathed it.
And this was my room.
Here's where I used to listen to The Beatles.
My brother had a record... you know, used to bring the records home
because he left school early and got a job,
and he brought home the second Beatles album
and then later on... Revolver.
Those 2 albums I vividly remember.
We used to have the bigger stereo in the front room later on.
And I was an asthmatic from birth.
When I was growing up, asthma, they didn't have any medication,
there was no Ventolin and all those inhalers and things.
They only had speed - amphetamines.
You know, some sort of ephedrine. Whatever.
I was self-medicating.
I would take... I'd have the pills and just go, you know...
And I didn't like the feeling of having speed, actually.
And I'd be awake at all hours of the night.
3 in the morning, I'm buzzing around the house like a lunatic.
So I would go into the lounge room,
I would get the stereo,
and I'd create, like, a giant set of headphones
and I'd listen to Mozart,
because Mozart was very soothing.
So I could actually eventually get to sleep listening to Mozart.
Dave, that's a beautiful story.
It was a funny story, but... yeah, speed was weird, you know.
But what I love, though,
is this little kid knows how to calm himself down.
Were you a happy family?
We were, but at the same time it was a very fractious family.
You know, my father was very high, you know, very... big temper,
and he also was a boxer.
True?
Yeah, he was a fleet champion boxer in the navy.
Had a very strong sense of justice and right and wrong.
Was he aggressive within the family?
Yeah a little bit, you know,
because he... he... Dad had a bit of ahh inferiority complex.
He was... he had a difficult childhood
and he was the youngest,
and his father died when he was 8.
And he ran away from home a couple of times after that,
and his mother died when he was 15 as well.
So he was raised by his brothers and sisters.
In terms of dinner, though, would you eat together as a family?
Oh, sometimes. Sunday lunch, of course, you know.
And would you discuss politics? Were you a politically...
Oh, yeah. Very much, you know. We'd argue about everything.
Everything.
'Cause my father hated... (SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
He hated pop music, for example. He loathed it.
Oh, brilliant. You know?
He hated pop music. And they were all on drugs.
Probably they were, you know. That's the funny thing.
He might have been right. Of course.
Some of those, you know, '60s performers. You know, the late '60s.
My mother came up through the Depression
and, you know, she was dirt poor, really,
in Melbourne during the Depression,
and my father was on the farm here during the Depression,
so that left a very strong impression on both of them
and they very much wanted us to... you know, to get ahead
and to have security.
U... which of course was not what I was doing with music.
It was the last thing. That must have been terrifying.
I had a huge fight with my father here one time
in the time when I was in the punk band, The Victims.
In the kitchen.
Yeah, and he actually, I got him so angry I know he wanted to deck me,
and it was really a horrible moment,
and I could not fight worth a damn.
I knew I couldn't beat my father in a fight.
So what I did, I just sat on the floor.
Which got him even angrier,
because his sense of fair play... he couldn't hit me.
I'd sort of somehow short-circuited this.
You really did.
And it made, he had all this pent-up rage that he couldn't get rid of
and it was really kind of funny, you know?
And was it about being in a band?
It was about clothing, actually.
"You can't go out dressed like that..."
You're joking?
Yeah, yeah. You know, "..with your arse ripped out of your jeans."
Because it was. Ah...
I am having trouble believing
that the lady across the road
could hear you playing piano from this far.
Well, I smashed that piano up.
You know, as I say, I broke strings all the time
and I was just pounding it,
and it was also a very quiet time of day, you know -
talking about, as I say, 5:30 in the morning, something like that.
Oh... What about the family?
I don't know why they allowed me to do this, but I did, yeah.
Really?
They just knew I was... you know, I was obsessed.
Now, is it true that you wrote Tojo here?
I did. In this very room.
I remember my father was out there, he was watering the garden,
and we played Tojo for the first time
and he said afterwards,
"That song, that Tojo song, that's got something."
Which... could have knocked me over with a feather,
because he hated rock'n'roll
and he'd never said anything, you know, kind
about the idea of playing rock music,
but that was the only song he ever said a nice thing about.
Your Dad did have a World War II experience.
Did he see some action?
He was in the Navy and he was 23 years old
and he had a mate on the ship he was on, the Canberra.
His mate worked in the magazine,
which is where they keep all the ammo,
and there'd been... a spotter plane
had seen the Japanese fleet steaming towards them
and they thought the next morning was going to be the big battle.
And instead the Japanese arrived in the middle of the night.
My father had swapped jobs with his friend
because his friend was so nervous about the coming battle.
My father used to work in the engine room,
which was a very safe place to be.
However, of course, the engine room got a direct hit with the torpedo,
and, um... yeah, the Canberra, um...
Sorry. I start to get a little emotional about this.
Um... so the Canberra sank, and, you know...
Eventually. It didn't sink straightaway.
But they lost about a fifth of the company
and, uh... of course my father's friend got killed,
and, uh... he was named Trevor, which is what my brother's name is.
Oh, right. They named him after Trevor.
After that experience,
his brothers and sisters said he was a changed man.
Late in life, it was really hard.
He applied for the disability pension.
He had a psychiatrist interviewing him
and, uh... started this whole interview,
and at the end of it, my father said something,
and the psychiatrist said "OK, rip those up. Let's start again."
And what it was was my father had said, you know,
"How would you feel if you saw your mates boiling in oil and burning?"
They're saying like, "Obviously this is a man that's got damage,"
the doctor's saying, like, "Well, let's talk the real story now.
"You've been covering up all this other stuff," so it's... yeah.
I see. Right, right. Yeah.
He did come around, though, to your music
thanks to the Canberra in a funny way.
Yeah, funny way.
Well, that Canberra sank, of course,
and there was another Canberra many years after,
and one of my songs, 1000 Miles Away,
had been adopted by the Navy,
and so whenever they'd leave port or arrive in port,
they'd play that over the PA system,
and eventually that Canberra too was decommissioned...
Mmm.
And the captain got in touch with us through our manager
and said would the Hoodoo Gurus
actually want to play the decommissioning ball
and to be our guests upon its last voyage?
I had my Dad as a guest
and as we're going up, my father said,
"So, David, you know, who else is here?"
And I said, "No-one, Dad. Just you and the Hoodoo Gurus,"
which blew his mind, you know,
'cause for him the idea of the navy is of course so important to him,
and he has always been heavily involved in the RSL.
But the fact that you know there was no mayor or minister of defence
or anyone else there... The public, or...
Yeah, but no dignitaries. Dignitaries, right.
We got to... to Garden Island,
we played for the ground... you know, the personnel.
But he was sitting on a chair at the edge of the front deck.
The captain had put him there
and he had given him a special cap,
which was a decommissioning crew cap,
which we all got one, but he had a special one.
Uh, the captain presented to him
basically the captain's version of that cap,
which I happen to have here, Julia.
Oh, my God.
The scrambled egg is what obviously a captain would have.
So that's what he had. Our caps were all the same as that.
Do they call that scrambled egg? They call that scrambled egg.
Yeah, that sort of chevrons or whatever they call it.
Oh, how funny. And I've kept it of course.
Of course you have.
♪ Hey A thousand miles away
♪ A thousand miles away
♪ A thousand miles away... ♪
Tell me about your mum.
Well, Ruth, yeah well, she was very...
As I say, she came from a very hard background.
Every day of her life she read books.
Obviously she loved education. She loved classical music.
She just really instilled a passion for us of learning
and, you know, focusing on that.
Let's go to one of her favourite places, shall we?
Of course.
Alright, Dave, which Faulkner is this park named after?
Um... Faulkner Park is named after my Uncle Patrick.
And what did he do?
Uh, he was on the council for a number of years,
so, um... yeah he got a park named after him,
and, uh, there's a Faulkner Avenue not far away from here,
which is named after my grandfather, one of the settlers of the area.
And this of course is why we're here.
Ruth Faulkner Library, named after your mum.
My dear mother.
She married into the family,
but she got her surname and first name on this thing,
the Ruth Faulkner Library. I love it.
And basically she's the reason this library's even here.
She went into council,
the first female councillor in the Belmont Shire,
and her number one thing was to get a library for the district.
And we have actually left her here in a more physical form as well -
not just in a name.
We put some of her ashes actually in the flowerbed there,
without them knowing, so... (LAUGHS) Good. Well, they know now.
She's under her name somewhere.
The house that Ruth built.
(WHISPERS) Great. Look at this.
I know. Oh, there she is.
That is amazing.
She actually wasn't that fond of this sculpture
when she first saw it.
She thought it was, you know, a bit old looking.
Oh, did she?
But of course she became... looked just like that.
Is that her there at the library getting...
There she is there, looking very seventies.
Very seventies. And that is the library being built, do you think?
That is. That is, yeah.
That's a famous shot, actually, from the newspaper, I think.
And here's the how to vote card from when she ran for council.
Gosh.
Were you involved at all in the campaign?
Oh, yeah, we were door knocking and distributing,
letter boxing everywhere
and we were everywhere, you know, doing that.
How old would you have been? 10. I mean... no, probably 12.
I don't know...
You're growing up and you're seeing Faulkner Park and Faulkner Library,
are you thinking,
"Oh, how am I going to make a Faulkner of myself?"
(LAUGHS) Faulkner of myself. I made a Faulkner of myself.
(LAUGHS) (LAUGHS) Um... I always do that.
Trinity. Your high school.
What was it like in the seventies?
When I was here and at that time,
it was quite... a very mixed sort of bag
of different people from different backgrounds and...
Was it strict?
Um, they did have corporal punishment.
The brothers had the leather strap,
which they would apply liberally at times.
So what kind of student were you?
A lazy student, number one.
I think the teachers thought
I was smart enough to do what I needed to do to get through
and they didn't worry about me.
But our particular year was a changing of the times
of philosophy and education.
You know, there was a Youthquake movement in the States and Europe,
and it was, like, we need the kids to feel involved in school
rather than be turned off by it.
So we had, like, a student council. It was very Bolshevik.
It's fantastic.
Yes, and I was on the student council.
And that was one of the first things, was get haircuts change.
And by the end of our schooling,
the last term, we just didn't bother going to class.
We just hung out down the tennis courts there.
They'd basically washed their hands of us.
We ended up having the most terrible...
..the terrible, uh... scholastic achievement record,
but at the same time, the people in my year,
so many of them have gone on to do amazing things
and I think we actually overrepresented in that area.
This is a religious school. It is a religious school.
And it was when you were here.
Where did religion sit with you? You were an atheist, weren't you?
Well my brother is six years older than me, Trevor,
and he was the one that actually first convinced me quite easily.
Mmm.
And, uh... I became quite a convert
to the belief system of not believing.
I was actually quite vocal about it
and the school actually were quite troubled by this.
Some people of course, "It's a religious school.
"How can we have this guy in here who is preaching atheism?"
And they thought, "Well, you know what,
"he'll... they will have to meet people like him
"in the outside world,
"so let's inoculate them with him now."
But I didn't tell my parents.
Because my father was quite... you know...
..and my mother were both quite religious.
So I used to actually still keep going to church,
but in a different church to where my parents went.
I went to another church where some friends of mine were
and they played instruments.
So I'd actually play the organ
and we would play songs and so forth
and so for me it was like a musical day away.
Shall we go and meet a friend of yours
who you went to school with and played a lot of music with?
Love to. A very good friend. OK.
Well, look who we've got here.
A friend! Ah!
Hello, Neil. Hi, Julia.
Do you know this guy? G'day, Dave.
Hi, Neil.
Never met him before. Thank you for meeting us here.
My pleasure. Now, how do you two know each other?
We were in a rock band together at high school... here at Trinity.
Savage Messiah. Savage Messiah.
Hang on. Say that again, Neil.
Savage Messiah. And I named the band.
Did you? Oh.
What type of music did you play in Savage Messiah, Neil?
Deep Purple.
Oh... Absolutely.
Number one.
Beatles songs.
I remember we did, um... Norwegian Wood...
OK. ..and we got kicked off the stage.
(LAUGHS)
Why?
Well, it was a kind of risque line in the song.
Oh, about, "And then she said it's time for bed."
We got kicked off?
There was a rowing cabaret in this very room and we...
A rowing cabaret. And we were told to...
I think we were told to stop.
Have you remained close over the years?
Yeah. Very much so.
Um, we became better friends after we left this school.
Where?
Because we were at university and, um...
And you didn't have a license.
No, I didn't have a license and Neil had a car.
I would have to drive him everywhere.
Tell me about Brother Thomas, who first introduced you to music.
Brother Thomas bought the equipment for the school
and that was what I used for the band.
After school hours, we'd rehearse, and God knows what we sounded like.
I think if it hadn't been... certainly for me,
if it hadn't been for Brother Thomas,
I wouldn't have had the introduction that I did to music.
And he taught me how to play guitar.
So I sort of credit him
with the fact that... yeah, I was involved in music at all.
Hello, Brother Thomas.
Or should I say Paul, as you're known now?
Look at these kids.
How are you, Dave? Mate.
The fog of 45 years is starting to lift.
(ALL LAUGH)
Now, we've just heard from the boys -
and I'll call them boys
because that's what they were when they were here -
how influential you were as a teacher.
Now, at the school there wasn't a subject called music necessarily?
No, there wasn't a subject as such.
Music facilities were limited
and I guess, um...
most music and drama was done outside of school hours.
No, it's rare to be able to say
that two students and their teacher were in a band together.
Now tell me about this band you all played in.
Uh, about 1970 we got a call from Channel Seven.
Anyway, the producer wanted a group of boys to come along
and do this Stars of the Future.
It was on peak hour, black and white TV.
And, uh... I said, "Yes, I can put that group together."
And these chaps were so talented
that I just played them the tape...
It could be that it's 1920s - the theme of the show could be 1920s -
and I'd be playing it hurley and burley and all this.
These guys pick it up straightaway,
sing it, three-part harmony, you know, no worries.
Paul, were you aware of how important you were as a teacher to these two?
No. I wasn't aware that, um... I'd started off this... thing.
Is that right? Absolutely.
Because that equipment that you bought, uh...
is what I, you know, cut my teeth on as far as in the Savage Messiah,
playing the socials
and, you know... (LAUGHS) you can't help but laugh.
And, um... Savage Messiah. I mean. really.
And we weren't great,
but it was... you know,
I got to start learning stage craft, you know,
and just to feel comfortable
and think, "This is what I like doing."
But I didn't know that I was fuelling the desire
for people to make a career or an interest out of it.
It's great. That's great.
Yeah, it's fantastic. Thank you so much, Paul.
Thank you. No, that's... fine.
Look at you. They're sitting like children.
And thank you. It's gorgeous.
Look, students. Thank you very much.
Students. Very good.
(ORGAN PLAYS)
Trinity Chapel.
You used to play in this chapel despite your atheism.
What is your musical philosophy?
Uh, well, apparently it was a crucible for me
and, um... you know, I like music to have energy
and... you know, um... yeah, vitality.
What inspires you?
My family are wonderful.
Um... still are.
You know, my parents have passed away,
but the ones that have... the next generations that are coming through,
you know, they're inspiring.
Incredible.
How's your hearing
after so many years... Not good.
..of being out there in that world of music and sound?
Our drummer, Mark, he's a very loud drummer.
And I've been in front of that drum kit for a long time
and at different times,
he had really loud monitoring system as well,
that were like the equivalent of having a huge PA
right on stage with me.
So I did lose a lot of hearing that way.
So there is industrial deafness for sure.
Any roads not taken? Of course.
Every day there's a road you didn't take.
Mmm. Art is one, you know, obviously.
Live in New York was another one.
You know, I often thought about that.
But, you know, I've had a really great career.
You know, I'm still up on a stage and no-one is laughing at me
and, you know, saying boo and get the hell out of here.
(LAUGHS) I still sound OK.
"Boo!" I'm still singing OK.
You know, I can hit the notes of all those songs.
OK, can I just say, voicewise,
what's amazing about you
is not only do you have songs that have made us so happy
in that we get to move and dance and go crazy,
but there is something about your voice.
Often your songs start... you're in kind of...
Is it a key? A certain key or an octave?
And then you punch up, and that's the emotion for me.
Well, some of that
is actually an accident of the way I write the songs,
because I'm writing them
almost like this sort of conversational sort of level.
So, when I go into the rehearsal room,
it's suddenly like, "Oh, God -
"I can't hear myself over all that noise,"
so I have to go up to the octave
and it's a bit like, "Oh, this is a bit hard now."
Where do you feel at peace?
I'm not at peace.
You know, how can I be at peace? I'm an artist.
You know, you're never at peace. Right, yeah.
You're always questioning and, you know, wanting to see what's next.
Finally, how has today been for you?
Um... yeah, peculiar, I've got to say.
The, um... you know, seeing Brother Thomas was amazing.
Um... you know, 'cause that's someone that obviously I owe a lot to.
The library was incredible.
Um... I didn't expect that, uh... the things of my family being there.
That was quite a surprise.
Obviously going back to the house...
Yeah, it's all very strange, actually.
I'm not sure I'll be able to tell you clearly at this moment,
but later on I'll sort of... yeah.
It's a lot to process in the one day. It is. Absolutely.
Isn't it? Yeah, yeah. It is a lot.
Well, you have brought so much joy to me
and to thousands and thousands of music lovers.
Thank you for spending the day with us
and letting us take you down all the past histories and roads.
Memory lane. Memory lane, indeed.
Thank you. It's been great. Thank you.
Julia, thank you, mate. Oh!
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