It’s Entertainment time and here Dicky he’s got a massive exclusive for us thank you Carl good morning one and all well in excess went from the pubs and clubs of Sydney to the concert stages of the world the three brothers and their three schoolmates forged a unique sound
And became one of the biggest bands in the world now 26 years after the passing of frontman Michael Hutchins and the untimely death of visionary manager Chris Murphy their legacy is certainly alive and well They’re back home and back together for the first time in six years in excess reunited to celebrate a fabulous Milestone 4 billion streams uh globally for nxcess and reflect on their incredible success boys it is lovely to see how does it feel to be back together amazing it’s been a while six years
You’re the one who hard to pin down these I know just realized I’ve been here two nights in 11 years which is just ridiculous well there’s a lot to celebrate it’s impossible to think of Australian music without a large part of that conversation dedicated to you guys
Back in the day I mean you and your your late great manager Chris Murphy he put everything on the line as did you absolutely totally we did it the the oldfashioned way we just kept at it you know we worked our butts off we got together in
1977 um I was just turned 16 when we moved to Perth cuz I was still in high school at the time whole Band came over with me to keep this thing going you know but and we were sitting on a beach we made a pack with each other we all
Decided that we would not stop until we made it but it was one of those little sort of naive and young sort of sweet things to do but the missing link as you just pointed out was Chris Murphy and it’s still the pack still Stands m tell us about this cookie this is all the repackaging yeah yeah look it’s called all Juiced up too and now what’s really standing up with this so these are all remixers this cover me now this is a new this is our solo apparently there’s this great thing
Where you can collect them all and it makes a big big Mosaic see there’s me it’s a very complicated but anyway there’s 18 remixes um coming out set of fre yeah speaking of Michael how often do you think of that guy a lot you know we miss
Michael and you know want to say that we wouldn’t be who we are without his incredible Dynamic performance as a as a lead man and as as a songwriter you know brilliant do you ever do the what if all time yeah all the time yeah of course I
Mean I still have dreams that he’s still with us he’s still around cuz he’s we all still dream about him and and it’s right it’s I have dreamss we’re about to go on stage and it’s it’s it’s a really wonderful experience it’s beautiful things happen whenever we
Get together too that you just go okay you’re There it’s 30 years since full moon dirty heart and I remember interviewing you guys when you came back 30 bloody years ago I think it was a a complicated period in our lives too um you know cuz of course Michael had had a terrible accident and that the first 3 months was
Really tricky but the second three months got really exciting I remember we went to Paris um Chris Murphy said do you know Ray Charles is recording downstairs um you know why don’t you send a couple of songs down I said he Charles not going want to listen to one
Of our songs so we sent down these two songs the message came back I love him let’s do it your music along with ACDC and the BG Stands Tall International in terms of Australian you know people still play your music just cuz they love it it extraordinary you know I hear it’s
In the supermarket then you know you’ve made it well we’ve recorded so many songs that I was in the supermarket and I was listening to a song going I love this s Bruce prank St and and I’m like hang on that’s in except our Legacy will always be our
Songs and and obviously most of them written by the great Andrew Ferris and mle and it’s it’s a a great legacy to have yeah lovely Lads they sold 100 million albums and now they’ve notched up 4 billion streams look that up it’s a lot as of course success of generations
Discover their music it’s true in excess they live on Talent just one of the great bands ever love them dick terrific interview nice work hey there today fans Sarah and what’s my name again Carl hey thanks for watching our YouTube channel though subscribe now for more news special
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