MINI: Rick Astley
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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The infamous Rick Astley was in ahead of his Melbourne Day in the Green performance and Christian had a very special challenge for him!
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| 0:00.0 | The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show podcast. |
| 0:03.2 | Rick Astley's, I guess this morning, great to see you in the studio. |
| 0:06.5 | I used to pass you in the corridor of our old, well, where used to be my old radio station. |
| 0:10.7 | Great to see you here. |
| 0:11.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:12.0 | Nice to be here. |
| 0:12.7 | It looks like we've dragged you from the plane where you were in a middle of a deep sleep. |
| 0:17.1 | Yeah, I am still a bit jet-like, I think. |
| 0:19.1 | I shouldn't be. I should kind of like, you know, be over it now. But no, we've had a really good few days. Actually, we were over in Perth and made a great gig there. So we did also have a couple of glasses of wine after the gig. So that may be... Actually, you're doing that middle-aged thing I do with blaming it on jet lag or coronavirus. Actually, it's just a hangover. No, I haven't got an actual hangover but um and also |
| 0:39.8 | the trams woke me up last night as well it's kind of I don't blame the trams you just |
| 0:43.0 | have a loan on me honestly got a drink problem no the trams not trams um no um yeah no it's one of |
| 0:50.9 | funny things about melbourne actually I think you get here and it, and it's so different to the other side of Australia. |
| 0:56.5 | It's two different countries. |
| 0:57.9 | It is actually, yeah. |
| 0:59.0 | But I quite like that. |
| 1:00.1 | I think that's kind of nice, you know. |
| 1:01.5 | So you and Elton John are in town this weekend. |
| 1:03.8 | Elton's here tomorrow night. |
| 1:04.8 | You're here to down the green then Margaret Crawl Arena on the Sunday. |
| 1:08.3 | It's amazing you're both here this weekend. Yeah, I mean, he's getting around, isn't he? I mean, he's not messing around with it. He's going literally everywhere. He's 72, Rick. I know. It's incredible. I've seen him a bunch of times live, and he's just still phenomenal. We saw him two weeks ago. I couldn't believe the energy. And also half the band I've been with him since the 70s. And they're so tight live as well. I'm actually really good friends with the guitar player Davey |
| 1:28.3 | Oh he's a legend isn't he a musical director yeah and and they're really, really good life. I've seen the shows in Vegas a couple of times as well, |
| 1:44.9 | and that's like a real treat |
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