Colin Hay
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well, it hit Greg very hard because he wasn't sued.
Actually, Ron wasn't sued either because he couldn't find Ron.
Ron was, I don't know where he was.
He was wandering somewhere in the foothills of Montana.
I don't think they could find him.
So they just sued me.
I was an easier target.
So they didn't sue Greg because he wasn't one of the songwriters.
Men at Work wasn't sued.
It was me that was sued because that's the way it works.
So he felt enormous guilt because he played the line and yet he was not sued for it.
And he wasn't in great shape anyway.
You know, a lot of people think that he suicided, but he didn't.
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.
And I wasn't living here either.
I was living in the States where it's just not news.
I mean, people hear about it, but it's not talked about like it was here.
And he was taking the brunt of it.
I tried to tell him that, look, at best in four or five years time, it's going to be a footnote.
No one's even going to