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Colin Hay

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615 total appearances

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Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

Well, it hit Greg very hard because he wasn't sued.

Conversations
Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

Actually, Ron wasn't sued either because he couldn't find Ron.

Conversations
Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

Ron was, I don't know where he was.

Conversations
Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

He was wandering somewhere in the foothills of Montana.

Conversations
Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

I don't think they could find him.

Conversations
Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

So they just sued me.

Conversations
Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

I was an easier target.

Conversations
Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

So they didn't sue Greg because he wasn't one of the songwriters.

Conversations
Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

Men at Work wasn't sued.

Conversations
Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

It was me that was sued because that's the way it works.

Conversations
Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

So he felt enormous guilt because he played the line and yet he was not sued for it.

Conversations
Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

And he wasn't in great shape anyway.

Conversations
Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

You know, a lot of people think that he suicided, but he didn't.

Conversations
Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

He died of, you know, his heart stopped and his internal organs stopped functioning through years of not looking after himself and drinking too much and all kinds of things.

Conversations
Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

And I wasn't living here either.

Conversations
Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

I was living in the States where it's just not news.

Conversations
Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

I mean, people hear about it, but it's not talked about like it was here.

Conversations
Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

And he was taking the brunt of it.

Conversations
Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

I tried to tell him that, look, at best in four or five years time, it's going to be a footnote.

Conversations
Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

No one's even going to