Paul Kelly

We thought it was a good song for the radio.

I think it's a very distinctive guitar sound by Steve Connolly, who played guitar with me for seven years.

No, you know, the solo.

So, yeah, Steve Connolly played all through from the mid-'80s with me till the comedy record.

So we did five records together in about six or seven years.

He died in 1995.

But those guitar lines that he wrote for those songs, we still play them.

It's like...

They're really sort of, to me, they're like carved in stone.

And he didn't do anything fancy.

He wasn't like a shredder or a real flashy guitarist.

He liked to sort of get the melody of the song and then sort of just twist it a little, but just make his own sound.

And he had a sort of very distinctive sound.

So I think he's, you know, one of our great guitarists.

I know he's influenced a lot of people down the line.

Yeah, turn the page.

I mean, come on.

All right, it's an artist I've worked with.

I've chosen it because I think it's a very important song.

I thought when it first came out in 1991, it opened people's eyes to some of the things that had happened in this country.