Meggie Morris

Then a few things happened in your life to change the role that music had in it.

Firstly was the fact that one day you were driving in your car listening to music, as always, and suddenly a speaker stopped working.

Yes.

What had happened?

And what sort of prognosis were you given medically about your hearing?

Well, then tell me about, George, what happened with your father when you faced losing him.

How did that inspire you to take your music out of the bottom drawer?

Ain't half bad.

Did you think twice before agreeing?

I mean, it's a big thing to have a documentary made about you.

The whole impetus for that first recording, though, of course, was to make this music to let your dad hear what you'd been working on.

How did that play out?

For you, George, when you first had the experience of hearing your music performed by actual musicians, what was that like?

The problem is your ear, not your music.

George!

So for a composer not to be able to hear his own music is an awful fate.

I mean, could you take some comfort from how other people were reacting to your music?

So you kind of had the sense that that Australian story might change things for you.

How did it end up changing things musically in terms of the opportunities that you had or requests that came your way?

And you were still, you know, filling your little day job as a judge at the same time?