We’re releasing a new song today. Or should I say an old song never before released.
I shared a flat with Paul Hewson, the piano player and song-writer from Dragon, in Elizabeth Bay when I first moved to Sydney in 1984. During that year’s Olympics, televised from Los Angeles, we watched the Australian weight-lifter Dean Lukin, a fisherman from Port Lincoln, unexpectedly win a gold medal. We got so excited that we wrote a song about him on the spot. A month or two later I recorded it straight to cassette around a kitchen table with Steve Connolly and Michael Barclay. It didn’t make the cut for POST but, miracle of miracles, my nephew Dan found it recently amongst the clutter in the back shed.