Colin Hay

I mean, I could say, oh, that was a mistake to do that.

The way we did it was certainly a mistake.

It was not pretty the way it was done through lawyers and everything.

So once that happened, once they got sacked, it was done.

It was over.

You know, we made another record, but it was just, it was finished.

Just didn't realise it at the time.

The thing that remains from that period is the music.

The songs remain.

The songs are the powerful things.

The songs are what people want to hear.

So when Men at Work was over, I was starting on a solo career right from the middle of the 80s.

So that was really the...

My struggle really with chronic addiction was between 85 and, say, 91.

That's when I had money.

And, you know, success buys you the illusion of time.

You think you have time because you don't have to go out and do stuff to put food on the table.

You've made money.

And so, you know, you've got a wine cellar.

You know, and you have plenty of friends that are quite prepared to drink your wine.