George Palmer

And the technician said, it's working perfectly fine.

What is not working is your hearing, mate.

So that's when I first discovered that I was losing my hearing.

Well, I went in, obviously, and I saw the specialist.

And he said, well, this thing happens.

This sort of thing happens.

We can't really predict anything.

It could be a gradual loss of hearing over the years or it could be sudden because what happened with the speaker in the car was pretty sudden.

One minute it was working perfectly and the next day it wasn't, which is why I thought it was busted.

So he said, look, we just have to wait and see.

Okay.

Well, Dad and the whole family knew that George's mad pastime was scribbling music.

Okay.

He knew I was deeply involved in it.

He wasn't well.

He was getting sick and he wouldn't, I knew, be able to go out and hear music if I got even a small group to perform it somewhere.

So I got the idea that I would get a few musicians together and

and record something, a little piece for him, so that I could just take it home to him and play it to him.

So I did know a few musicians then.

I said, can we get some people together and we'll go into a little recording studio and just put something down.