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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tasmania Talks with Mike Laughlin weekday mornings from nine. Fernando,
are you swaying there, Peter, Well.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yes and no, it brings back a lot of memories
for me and Abba very much in the news today. Well,
in the news firstly because it's Freda's seventy seventh birthday, yes,
just to make us all feel a little bit old,
but also because they've got four nominations today in the
Grammy Award nominations which has come out, and this is
for the Voyage album, which, to be very honest, didn't
(00:29):
sell as well as I think everybody thought it was
going to. Well. I thought it was quite good, but
maybe the moment had gone. You know, for decades we
had these recurring stories of you know, we'll abba ever
get back together, and finally they did and it didn't
quite get received in the way I thought people would.
(00:49):
But anyway, four nominations today for them. The other interesting
one is Beyonce, who today has equalled with her husband
Jay Z to be the most nominal performers of all time.
They each have eighty eight nominations over time. So no,
that's a power couple, you know. Yeah, And if she
(01:12):
wins she got nine new ones today, but if she
wins four of those nine on the night, she will
become the most awarded, the biggest winner of Grammy awarded.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
That must have a shed full of the things.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, a big mantel piece, asobtely were an actual trophy room.
I'd say a lot of those people have.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Gosh, what would you do with them? Another lady whose
birthday and today ninety Betula Clark. This is amazing. I
can remember Downtown being played a lot when that came out,
and I seem to remember an interview with her when
that came out, and she actually said that she didn't
even know what was happening. The first she knew about
it was when she had it on the radio.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, you know, it's a very interesting story that Petula
Clark won because she was actually a child star. She
was performing, you know, as a kid performer on and
very early days of television and performing four troops during
the Second World War. We didn't know about that here.
And then she had a whole other career in France
doing pop music in French, and she's recorded in Italian
(02:14):
and German, and then she had those big hits like
Downtown and my Love and Color my World and those
big numbers that Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent wrote for her.
And she's still around, she's still going. She'll spent her
ninetieth birthday working. She's in Mary Poppins in London at
the moment, playing the bird Woman, which is the role
(02:34):
of Patty Newton's playing here at the moment in Brisbane,
and so she's not slowing down. She doesn't want to stop.
She primarily lives in Switzerland, but she's hardly ever there.
She's always working. So happy ninetieth birthday to Dame Betula Clark.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Apparently she lives. This is from Richard. She lives in
a castle. What's the story with that?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, well wouldn't we all? It's not the money, So
I'd have a castle in Switzerland too if I could.
But very talented woman and very shy woman. Actually, she's
quite very modest when you get to meet her and
talk to her.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Wow, okay, how many times have you had a yap
to Patula Clark over the years?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But oh, probably three times? I would have thought. And
I'm a big fan, so I go a bit fanboy
when I am with her. But she's very charming lady.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, okay, best story from Petula Clark, anything stand out
for you?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well, I think for she has a rather unusual marriage
situation which she talks about. She's sort of separated, but
they still live under the same roof and they have
the same We've got a lot of respect for each other.
But it's a rather complicated story. But it's musicians and artists,
for you try and be complicated.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
It's good for them. Somebody else by saying Diana Ross
seventy eight.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Wow, Yeah, Well she got nominated today in the Grammy
Awards too, and this is for her album. She's nominated
in the category of Best Traditional Pop Music Album, And
so that's pretty good for seventy eight. And she's she's
been nominated many times, but she's never won. And I
think it's forty years since her last nomination. But she's
(04:07):
having something of a career resurgence at the moment. Yeah.
She did Glastonbury this year. She did the big concert
for the Queen. She was like the big finish for
the night, which I don't think she should have been,
quite frankly, but nonetheless she was. And so, yeah, Dinah
Ross is certainly back in business.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I've heard from various people that she's well kind of awkward.
Is that true? Is that true?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I tell Diana, Oh, she can be very difficult or
missus Ross as people have to call her. But yeah,
she can be very She stands her own ground and
she's pretty tough. I think that would be fair to say.
But you know, that's maybe why she's lasted so long.
You know, she just doesn't take any nonsense from anybody.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Will we be talking about Beyonce when she's eighteen?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I reckon, isn't that interesting? I don't know. It's a
different game these days. I suspect sometimes you see people
that think, yeah, you'll be around in thirty or forty
years time, and Beyonce it probably is one of those
ones that I think will be I.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Can remember seeing Madonna on the TV in the early
eighties and it was always kind of Madonna Madonna Cindy
Lauper kind of thing, and we were sort of talking about, Oh,
who's going to be the one that lasts the longest
out of these two. I don't know Madonna. She can't
sing very well. What do you reckon? It's kind of
boppy and that was what we thought. But a little bit.
We know they're both still around exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah. I mean, you know, Madonna I don't think is
sort of doing the big shows anymore. I haven't heard
of her doing him for a while, but when she does,
she's always good. She's a very odd woman. And Cindy
Lawper of course coming to Australia next year a special
guest with Rod Stewart for his shows. So yeah, both
of those performers still very much around him with us.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
She had some stuff out Cindy Lauper, oh, probably ten
years ago, and it was really good, like it was
just terrific. Her voice is great.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Well, of course she's also got now this other income
stream because of the musical Kinky Boots is all her music,
so a lot of money comes in from that too.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Gosh, all right, they'll do everything all right to end
on a well, I think it's still a mystery, isn't that.
This all got very very weird and then we forgot
about it. Olivia Newton and John's boyfriend, what was the story?
Remind us?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well, his name was Patrick McDermott and he was Olivia's
boyfriend's stroke partner. I'm not quite sure what the right
word is but either way, he went on a fishing
trip with twenty two other people else the coast of
California and never came back, and that led to all
sorts of stories that he'd either tried to take his
own life or he fell and slipped and drowned.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And there was apparently sightings here and there, whether there
were real or.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Not, well, that became a big thing of you know,
supposedly he faked his own death, and he moved to
Mexico because he had debts. The debts were only thirty
thousand dollars, I might add, I mean Olivia could have
paid them off with ashtray money. But so it did
become a big, ongoing wound. And before for Olivia, it
(06:58):
was a wound because it could never be healed because
there was nobody ever found, and the mystery just continued
for years and years. I mean, thankfully, she met another
man and she got married to him, John Eastaling, and
she was blissfully happy. But that was always that unresolved
thing of what happened to Patrick. And now a new
podcast has dropped and it's about it's called Pseudo Side,
(07:20):
which I've never heard of before. But pseudo side means
when you stage or fake your own death or whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Do we know that for a fact now or not?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Mean, well, we don't know that now, And I haven't
heard the whole thing as to whether they come to
any great conclusions. I suspect they're more just investigating the possibilities.
But part of me is kind of happy that Olivia's
not around for this, because I think it would be
very upsetting for her to know that once again this
story is being you know, sort of trawled over and
people are making money out of it again.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Okay, it would be good to know what the hell happened, though.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well, look, my gut feeling is it's probably a lot
simpler than any of the theories that are doing the rounds.
And my gut feeling is he probably just slipped and drowned,
and sadly nobody on the boat noticed.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Gosh amazing stuff. Somebody else that I've Richard's just put
it on there. I didn't know this. Richard's full of information.
Nine kids birthday today, seventy seven, mister Rod Stewart.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, well, I mean he's he has nine kids.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And I just think I'm sexy. Someone did, I guess
that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Well, you're still one of the great entertainers. You mentioned
that concert for the Queen there back in June when
I was in London for that, and I don't think
it was one of Rod's greatest performances. And I know
he didn't want to sing Sweet Caroline anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I mean, has he not got rights to his own
songs or something? I heard that he was.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Told to sing really BBC told him to sing that.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So but he's Rod Stewart. I'm not singing a Neil
Diamond song.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I've had enough when you've got such a great catalog
of your own. Why they're forcing him to sing Neil
Imans big signature song. But because he's doing here next
year and he'll sell.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Out as always, Yep, absolutely, and probably people will still
think he's he's sexy. I guess. Apparently he once said
in the future he won't marry again. Just find a
girl he doesn't like him, give her a house, just
speed it all up. He's got a sense her humor anyway. Yeah,
there you go. Well, look I'll tell you what. That's
(09:26):
the land of entertainment. We've reminisced with Abba and all
that sort of stuff. What was the first abba record
you bought Petter before you go? Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I think it was Mum and Mia.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Oh okay, at least it was a bit more up tempoed.
How well, I'm asking personal questions. How old were you
when Muma Mia came out and you shout out memory?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I guess I probably was about ten or eleven. Now
I've totally dated myself, have not?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
We know exactly? Well, we'll have a win, that's the
big question too.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Wow, that would be nice. So it kind of closed
the chapter for them because I don't think they're going
to do anything together again, in particularly because this first
thing didn't quite take off. But you know, to actually
finally win a Grammy award would be a nice thing.
It's it's sort of unbelievable. I haven't got one on
the shelf.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah. Well that's sort of live in inverted commas thing
that they've got going with the what is it avatars?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, the show, the appetites.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I'm going to keep going or what I mean, Well.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It's going to Cane London. It's not something that they
can move around because it's quite an involved technical thing,
you know, so it has to stay in one place.
But I think it's going quite well for them.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, okay, all right, Penna, You've probably got places to
go on, much more interesting people to talk to. Talk
to you again, very very soon. I have a good one.
Tas Mania Talks with Mic Laughlin weekday mornings from nine
Tasmania Talks with Mike Laughlin weekday mornings from nine. Fernando,
are you swaying there, Peter, Well.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yes and no, it brings back a lot of memories
for me and Abba very much in the news today. Well,
in the news firstly because it's Freda's seventy seventh birthday, yes,
just to make us all feel a little bit old,
but also because they've got four nominations today in the
Grammy Award nominations which has come out, and this is
for the Voyage album, which, to be very honest, didn't
(00:29):
sell as well as I think everybody thought it was
going to. Well. I thought it was quite good, but
maybe the moment had gone. You know, for decades we
had these recurring stories of you know, we'll abba ever
get back together, and finally they did and it didn't
quite get received in the way I thought people would.
(00:49):
But anyway, four nominations today for them. The other interesting
one is Beyonce, who today has equalled with her husband
Jay Z to be the most nominal performers of all time.
They each have eighty eight nominations over time. So no,
that's a power couple, you know. Yeah, And if she
(01:12):
wins she got nine new ones today, but if she
wins four of those nine on the night, she will
become the most awarded, the biggest winner of Grammy awarded.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
That must have a shed full of the things.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, a big mantel piece, asobtely were an actual trophy room.
I'd say a lot of those people have.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Gosh, what would you do with them? Another lady whose
birthday and today ninety Betula Clark. This is amazing. I
can remember Downtown being played a lot when that came out,
and I seem to remember an interview with her when
that came out, and she actually said that she didn't
even know what was happening. The first she knew about
it was when she had it on the radio.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, you know, it's a very interesting story that Petula
Clark won because she was actually a child star. She
was performing, you know, as a kid performer on and
very early days of television and performing four troops during
the Second World War. We didn't know about that here.
And then she had a whole other career in France
doing pop music in French, and she's recorded in Italian
(02:14):
and German, and then she had those big hits like
Downtown and my Love and Color my World and those
big numbers that Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent wrote for her.
And she's still around, she's still going. She'll spent her
ninetieth birthday working. She's in Mary Poppins in London at
the moment, playing the bird Woman, which is the role
(02:34):
of Patty Newton's playing here at the moment in Brisbane,
and so she's not slowing down. She doesn't want to stop.
She primarily lives in Switzerland, but she's hardly ever there.
She's always working. So happy ninetieth birthday to Dame Betula Clark.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Apparently she lives. This is from Richard. She lives in
a castle. What's the story with that?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, well wouldn't we all? It's not the money, So
I'd have a castle in Switzerland too if I could.
But very talented woman and very shy woman. Actually, she's
quite very modest when you get to meet her and
talk to her.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Wow, okay, how many times have you had a yap
to Patula Clark over the years?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But oh, probably three times? I would have thought. And
I'm a big fan, so I go a bit fanboy
when I am with her. But she's very charming lady.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, okay, best story from Petula Clark, anything stand out
for you?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well, I think for she has a rather unusual marriage
situation which she talks about. She's sort of separated, but
they still live under the same roof and they have
the same We've got a lot of respect for each other.
But it's a rather complicated story. But it's musicians and artists,
for you try and be complicated.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
It's good for them. Somebody else by saying Diana Ross
seventy eight.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Wow, Yeah, Well she got nominated today in the Grammy
Awards too, and this is for her album. She's nominated
in the category of Best Traditional Pop Music Album, And
so that's pretty good for seventy eight. And she's she's
been nominated many times, but she's never won. And I
think it's forty years since her last nomination. But she's
(04:07):
having something of a career resurgence at the moment. Yeah.
She did Glastonbury this year. She did the big concert
for the Queen. She was like the big finish for
the night, which I don't think she should have been,
quite frankly, but nonetheless she was. And so, yeah, Dinah
Ross is certainly back in business.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I've heard from various people that she's well kind of awkward.
Is that true? Is that true?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I tell Diana, Oh, she can be very difficult or
missus Ross as people have to call her. But yeah,
she can be very She stands her own ground and
she's pretty tough. I think that would be fair to say.
But you know, that's maybe why she's lasted so long.
You know, she just doesn't take any nonsense from anybody.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Will we be talking about Beyonce when she's eighteen?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I reckon, isn't that interesting? I don't know. It's a
different game these days. I suspect sometimes you see people
that think, yeah, you'll be around in thirty or forty
years time, and Beyonce it probably is one of those
ones that I think will be I.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Can remember seeing Madonna on the TV in the early
eighties and it was always kind of Madonna Madonna Cindy
Lauper kind of thing, and we were sort of talking about, Oh,
who's going to be the one that lasts the longest
out of these two. I don't know Madonna. She can't
sing very well. What do you reckon? It's kind of
boppy and that was what we thought. But a little bit.
We know they're both still around exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah. I mean, you know, Madonna I don't think is
sort of doing the big shows anymore. I haven't heard
of her doing him for a while, but when she does,
she's always good. She's a very odd woman. And Cindy
Lawper of course coming to Australia next year a special
guest with Rod Stewart for his shows. So yeah, both
of those performers still very much around him with us.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
She had some stuff out Cindy Lauper, oh, probably ten
years ago, and it was really good, like it was
just terrific. Her voice is great.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Well, of course she's also got now this other income
stream because of the musical Kinky Boots is all her music,
so a lot of money comes in from that too.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Gosh, all right, they'll do everything all right to end
on a well, I think it's still a mystery, isn't that.
This all got very very weird and then we forgot
about it. Olivia Newton and John's boyfriend, what was the story?
Remind us?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well, his name was Patrick McDermott and he was Olivia's
boyfriend's stroke partner. I'm not quite sure what the right
word is but either way, he went on a fishing
trip with twenty two other people else the coast of
California and never came back, and that led to all
sorts of stories that he'd either tried to take his
own life or he fell and slipped and drowned.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And there was apparently sightings here and there, whether there
were real or.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Not, well, that became a big thing of you know,
supposedly he faked his own death, and he moved to
Mexico because he had debts. The debts were only thirty
thousand dollars, I might add, I mean Olivia could have
paid them off with ashtray money. But so it did
become a big, ongoing wound. And before for Olivia, it
(06:58):
was a wound because it could never be healed because
there was nobody ever found, and the mystery just continued
for years and years. I mean, thankfully, she met another
man and she got married to him, John Eastaling, and
she was blissfully happy. But that was always that unresolved
thing of what happened to Patrick. And now a new
podcast has dropped and it's about it's called Pseudo Side,
(07:20):
which I've never heard of before. But pseudo side means
when you stage or fake your own death or whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Do we know that for a fact now or not?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Mean, well, we don't know that now, And I haven't
heard the whole thing as to whether they come to
any great conclusions. I suspect they're more just investigating the possibilities.
But part of me is kind of happy that Olivia's
not around for this, because I think it would be
very upsetting for her to know that once again this
story is being you know, sort of trawled over and
people are making money out of it again.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Okay, it would be good to know what the hell happened, though.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well, look, my gut feeling is it's probably a lot
simpler than any of the theories that are doing the rounds.
And my gut feeling is he probably just slipped and drowned,
and sadly nobody on the boat noticed.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Gosh amazing stuff. Somebody else that I've Richard's just put
it on there. I didn't know this. Richard's full of information.
Nine kids birthday today, seventy seven, mister Rod Stewart.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, well, I mean he's he has nine kids.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And I just think I'm sexy. Someone did, I guess
that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Well, you're still one of the great entertainers. You mentioned
that concert for the Queen there back in June when
I was in London for that, and I don't think
it was one of Rod's greatest performances. And I know
he didn't want to sing Sweet Caroline anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I mean, has he not got rights to his own
songs or something? I heard that he was.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Told to sing really BBC told him to sing that.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So but he's Rod Stewart. I'm not singing a Neil
Diamond song.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I've had enough when you've got such a great catalog
of your own. Why they're forcing him to sing Neil
Imans big signature song. But because he's doing here next
year and he'll sell.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Out as always, Yep, absolutely, and probably people will still
think he's he's sexy. I guess. Apparently he once said
in the future he won't marry again. Just find a
girl he doesn't like him, give her a house, just
speed it all up. He's got a sense her humor anyway. Yeah,
there you go. Well, look I'll tell you what. That's
(09:26):
the land of entertainment. We've reminisced with Abba and all
that sort of stuff. What was the first abba record
you bought Petter before you go? Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I think it was Mum and Mia.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Oh okay, at least it was a bit more up tempoed.
How well, I'm asking personal questions. How old were you
when Muma Mia came out and you shout out memory?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I guess I probably was about ten or eleven. Now
I've totally dated myself, have not?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
We know exactly? Well, we'll have a win, that's the
big question too.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Wow, that would be nice. So it kind of closed
the chapter for them because I don't think they're going
to do anything together again, in particularly because this first
thing didn't quite take off. But you know, to actually
finally win a Grammy award would be a nice thing.
It's it's sort of unbelievable. I haven't got one on
the shelf.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah. Well that's sort of live in inverted commas thing
that they've got going with the what is it avatars?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, the show, the appetites.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I'm going to keep going or what I mean, Well.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It's going to Cane London. It's not something that they
can move around because it's quite an involved technical thing,
you know, so it has to stay in one place.
But I think it's going quite well for them.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, okay, all right, Penna, You've probably got places to
go on, much more interesting people to talk to. Talk
to you again, very very soon. I have a good one.
Tas Mania Talks with Mic Laughlin weekday mornings from nine
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