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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Forty years ago I first met our next guest. I
was a segment producer on a television show. I was
obsessed with spand Our Ballet. I've seen them every time
they're here. I see Tony Hadley every time he's performing,
and he's performing with us right here, right now, as
our next guest.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Hi, Tony here is Oh good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Do you know years ago I was wooing Amanda to
come and work with me on the radio, and I
used your tickets as a carrot. This is twenty years ago,
twenty probably twenty one years ago.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Used you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Coming to town, you were performing at Luna Pass, you
could take your posse year.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It got me over the line and here I am.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Twenty years later.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So we're talking about forty years between about twenty years.
How does it feel, Tony to have this fabulous career
that spans the decades.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's a bit of a weird while.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I mean, when you start off making music, I mean
we were a punk band when we first started nineteen
seventy six. We planned all the punk clubs in London
and eventually we sort of became Span Our Ballet and
then our first fact this year is going to be
the celebration of cut long story short.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It's forty five years ago, which is ridiculous, and.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
At that moment you hope and pray that you're going
to be around in ten years time, twenty years time.
I'm not sure I imagined i'd still be doing this
in forty five years time.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
But I'm still loving it. And I remember when.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
When I was younger, because you know, you're all kind
of excuse me, angry young men, and I'd be saying, yeah,
Mick Jagger and Paul McCarley, they're so old man, they
should be giving it up.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
They're only about thirty two. Here I am at sixty four,
still still cracking it.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
As I just said, I haven't had to drop any
of the keys to the songs or anything. I had
a quick story. So I was in Holland working with
an orchestra.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I work with quite a lot of orchestras.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
And the conductor came over to me and he said,
these keys they're in the same key. I said, yeah,
I sing in the same key. So but you're very old,
I said, after I hit him.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Not quite a compliment and half a compliment.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It happens to the singers. Elton John had to change
his key. Rod Stewart had to change his key because
as you get older, your vocal cords shrink like most
of you. But so you've you've managed to keep that.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah, I mean, I mean I studied with an opera
singer for two years. I always exercised before I go
on stage, and it's just keeping it going. I mean,
Tom Jones is still singing like a dream. And Tom's
so he's still singing really well. Jack Jones, the late
Jack Jones, I don't know if you be one of
the best cruders on the planet. And I knew him,
(02:35):
I loved him. He was fantastic. I mean I saw
him just literally just a few years ago at Cadungan
Hall in London. He was still singing like an absolute dream.
And I think it's about keeping it going. It's you know,
the minute you stop is the minute you've got problems.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So you still look like such a stylish man. You're
wearing a beautiful suit. You look fabulous. It's interesting that
you say that you were sort of started punk because
or started in a punk band, or you were punk,
but because the New Romantic movement is what I kind
of remember spending our ballet as being. And I'm wearing
a giant puffy shirt today. What was the most fun
(03:09):
crazy thing that you wore and do you still own it?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Well, my live Aid coat I actually found and I
must auction it to a charity thing.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
So you know, the live Aid coat I wore and
everyone said, are you mad? So it was a friend
of mine, Jane.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
She made it and it was a excuse me, a
double thickness leather coat and it was all about, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I've got to look cool. I'm going to be on
TV in front of the world.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
And I sweated and sweated because it was like eighty
degrees in London, which is kind of unusual. So I've
got that coat. But one of the funniest I had
this outfit made. It was a leather outfit with loads
of poppers on it, and I had boots with fur
on them and everything and chains and everything like that. And
I was at this art show in London thinking I
was ever so cool, and all of a sudden.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
The poppers started to come off.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
It was getting to the point where things were getting exposed.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Because I had to rush home early but live.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Ages, lives in our lives now large in our lives.
And the fact that you're actually there, the fact that
Queen were there, and after watching Bahemian Rhapsody, you really
get that vibe of like they were on the out
at that stage and Freddie knew he had age a stage.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And he wasn't going to be around for much longer.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
What was it like being there when Queen performed?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
What was that where there were two bands that you
really remember, which was Stateless quote and I stood on
the side of the stage with the late great Janie
Long and the Crow Boys France and Rick love them
and literally they started rocking all over the world and
we just looked at each other and went, Wow, this
is really happening. I mean, you know, eighty thousand people
in the stadium and that was a moment. And then
(04:41):
obviously the Queen Boys, because they did an amazing sort
of compilation of all their big hits and stuff. And
I remember going in to see Freddie and the Boys
just before they went on and said, look, just have
a great show, guys. You know you're going to be fantastic.
And I knew Freddie and the Boys anyway, and Freddie
gave me advice as a young singer about, you know,
going out there owning the stage. You know, as the
(05:02):
lead singer, you're always the focal point. And even if
you're feeling down, or your voice is not great, or
you've got a bit of flu, you never apologize for anything.
You go out there and you're larger than life. And
I always took that on board. And he was a fantastic, lovely, lovely,
lovely man. Order Queen Boys were wonderful guys.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
To be such a moment of history, and for your
songs as well, to be so iconic. What more as
a musician could you ask for? To have songs that
babies are born knowing is extraordinary, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
They come out singing gold.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
That's a worry.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
It's it's kind of weird, you know, I mean, true
is the is the love song? You know, people get
married to that, you know, make love to it, all
sorts of stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You know. Gold is that kind of anthemic, sort of
believe in yourself kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
And as you walk around London, you'll get the black
cab is going all right, turn as you go you're right,
May your gold, and so you got to that reaction
and then through the barricade. For me is my favorite
man I Ballet song because it was a complete departure
from everything else we did, and it's got the beautiful
lyrics and the soft bits at the beginning, and then
you've got the anthemic bit when the drums come in,
(06:08):
and it's just such a wonderful song.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And that's the one.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
If you're going to see anyone in the audience shed
a tear, that will be on that particular song.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Not true our goal, but it will be that.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yeah, when I make love, I choose gold and sadly
I'm by myself.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Oh we didn't need that. It's the shortest song.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
What time is it? It's time.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
It's great to see you again. For tickets and tour information,
head to destroy our all lines dot com.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Well explain right, Well, I'll explain sort of briefing what
was going on.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
So we were meant to do these these festivals over
here for some reason, I don't know why, but they
got canceled and we added on a few shows ourselves
in Adelaide's, Hobart and Perth.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Just spend a bit longer in Australia.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Really sure, but we're so the tour that we're talking
about now is the tour in March twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Oh my god, we're going to be coming out.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I well, we've come here to you know, because obviously
we sold the tickets and we're coming here to see
our fans.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
So but we're announcing a proper tour.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
In twenty twenty six, March twenty twenty six, and I
think is it destroy or something.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
That destroy all lines?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
That's the one.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Go there and.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
We'll see you again.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Well, I'll see everybody in Perth and Adelaide and Hope
and then we'll see everyone properly for a.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Proper tour next year. See you they fantastic.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Thanks you catch up again mate, Thanks.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Very much for having me. Thank you