Can you give us an idea of the other songs that are in there, Paul? Well,

probably the most contemporary in terms of a rock song, Beds Are Burning by Midnight Oil.

And, you know, I guess that's the politically charged Aboriginal land rights song.

So, you know, it had a political message at the time.

So they've probably well chosen that out of all the Midnight Oil songs to put in there.

Ruby Hunters, Down City Streets, which is probably not one of those really well-known songs across the board for a lot of people, but it's, you know, for First Nations listeners, I think, you know, it tells the story of displacement of the stolen generation, the Indigenous experience, and it's a very, very important cultural song for the start of what we started to identify as Indigenous music.

It even goes into, like, Peter Scalford's Earth Cry, which is classical.

Did any others make it in that didn't make some sort of political statement?

But I suppose if you limit it to 10 to start with, you're going to miss so many great ones.

And the emphasis there, what you just said, to start with.

This is going to be an annual thing.

There's going to be 10 more added each year.

And all those songs that they said in the breakfast show this morning, over the course of the next 10, 20, 30, 40 years, they will all start to populate in there.

So I don't think we need to get our knickers in a knot at this point.

You know, every song in there is kind of worthy.

So what has been the basis of this, and why has it basically taken so long?

Or am I misreading it?

Well, you know, when bands break up, they break up in the heat of the moment.

Same thing happened with Cold Chisel back in the 1980s.

It was sort of the peak of Cold Chisel in the charts.

But when they'd go out on the road and tour, the money just didn't add up.

Even with Powderfinger, there's enormous costs when you go out for a band like that.

And as the band gets bigger, the venues get bigger and the costs get bigger.

So do you think there's other bands that we'll just never see reunite? In

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And then Frank [laughs] the whole thing became ZZ Top just about eight weeks later.

So that's how far these guys go back.

And they were the, uh, the three founding members of ZZ Top, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard, and Billy Gibbons, who stayed with the band for the entire duration of the band.

And Dusty, uh, sadly passed away in 2021.

Uh, Frank Beard, as we heard overnight, had died, uh, o- over the last 24 hours.

And they were only in Australia about two years ago for Red Hot Summer, but we did not get to see Frank Beard at that point.

Now, what would you do if you were Billy? Do you hang up your beard? Do you just say, "Well, you know, two, uh, it, it's down to me." Does he get some, some players and just hit the road again? Or, or does he maybe draw a line under the whole ZZ Top experience?

Who else has spoken out today about her death?

Well, I guess one of the big ones would have been the Prince and Princess of Wales who have come out and called her a proud Welsh icon.

And the thing that I noticed with the tributes that have been coming out, everything from rock stars to royalty, it's been absolutely incredible.

You've got the Welsh First Minister who came out and said that we've lost a true icon whose music brought joy to so many people.

And he's absolutely right.

Susie Quatro came out and said, you know, what a great talent Bonnie was, a great voice.

And they'd been friends since the 1970s, as was Liz Mitchell from Boney M, who was a very close friend of Shake and Stevens.

For yourself, Paul, were you a fan? Did you like her 80s era or her 70s era?

So, Paul, tell us, how did the village people begin?

Well, the village people took their name from the village, Greenwich Village in New York City.

That's where it all came from.

And, you know, there was a bit of a disco boom going on across America.

Disco sort of began a couple of years earlier, sort of kicked off with a song called Sol Macosa by Manu Dubango, who a lot of people won't know that song but they will know michael jackson want to be starting something which is based on the exact same theme so that's when disco sort of uh kicked in uh and then you start to get these dribs and drabs of disco hits there was glory gain or never can say goodbye um hughes corporation rock the boat with george mccray and then of course saturday night fever came along the whole world exploded everyone knew what disco was at that point Donna Summer became big and the village people became big and that's where it all started to happen on a global basis and the village people took Greenwich Village, New York City to the entire world at that point.

And as well, you've got a couple of movie references in regards to the village people.

They got name-checked in quite a few movies.

In Wayne's World 2, that was a very funny scene where, you know, like everybody was dressed up sort of spying in Wayne's World 2 up and down the streets and, you know, one was dressed as a construction worker and one as a policeman because, of course, you're not going to notice anybody if they're dressed up like that on the streets of New York.