MINI: Letters
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
We all have our idols. And with a certain celebrity commemorating their birthday by sending letters to the artist who has inspired him, Christian wanted to know who you've sent letters to
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| 0:00.0 | The Christian O'Connell Show. |
| 0:02.5 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:02.9 | Podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | Bono, 60 this week. |
| 0:05.8 | And he's done something really cool. |
| 0:07.2 | He's made a playlist. |
| 0:08.4 | 60 songs that saved his life. |
| 0:10.9 | And there are a whole load of, as you can imagine with Bono, |
| 0:14.2 | there's so many songs that obviously inspired him. |
| 0:16.5 | It's Billy Eilish on us, so he's got contemporary ones |
| 0:18.5 | and some going back to the Ramones and Frank Sinatra. |
| 0:21.6 | There's some great songs on here. |
| 0:23.2 | In excess, Never Tear Us alive, just saying a little one page, |
| 0:38.0 | and he's writing them by hand, just saying what the song meant to them and thanking them. |
| 0:42.3 | Like David Bowie, he wrote to David Bowie's son, Duncan, just saying thank you for sharing your dad with the world. |
| 0:48.0 | He meant a lot to me and he filled up a lot of people with joy and hope, and I was one of them, |
| 0:52.1 | which is a really nice thing to do with thank the people that have actually made a difference in your life. |
| 0:57.2 | And so I was thinking this morning about who have you actually written to? |
| 1:00.0 | Have you ever written to a famous person? |
| 1:02.8 | Patsy, do you ever write to anyone famous? |
| 1:05.5 | I think the only famous people I've written to would be Bross, the band. |
| 1:10.7 | Yep, I remember them. |
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