She sent an email in advance asking me to pick a song that has a bit of a story attached. I’m a big fan of Zan Rowe’s ‘Take 5’, and its progenitor, the excellent ‘Five of My Life’ podcast hosted by Nigel Marsh, which I was on, sometime in lockdown.
In the end, I sent a panicked email to Emily, feeling like Rob out of High Fidelity, saying I was unable to make any sort of decision, because one song is too hard, and here are five songs that have stories, and would she mind picking one.
Emily picked ‘From St Kilda to Kings Cross’ by Paul Kelly, because she wanted our whole of creative life chat to start with a Race Around the World story.
Other songs that began segments were The Killers ‘All the Things That I’ve Done’, for the birth of child number one, and ‘American Land’ for the first concert for child number three.
We finished with a snippet from Casey Bennetto’s sublime Christmas (New Year!) song ‘Swing Around the Sun’ which is a favourite of mine at this time of year.
Happy Christmas everyone! And to non Christmas folks, happy end of year and seasonal festivities. Thanks for reading or listening or watching my stuff this year.
3AW Sunday Breakfast interview — 5 songs with stories