Great comment, sir. I have lived with this song for so long and didn’t realise it was Livvy’s voice. And you have a point. Another thing for me to enjoy in this song due to awareness.
@@thehydronator3021 nah it was great my footy team were good and great music no pokies in venues and plenty of bands playing there's to many pubs closing now
I'm from southern Brazil and this song marked my life, especially my summers. What I never imagined was that she was talking about heroin addiction. I've always lived it as a romantic song. It was music to take attitude and go to the girl. Anyway, it's great music.
James did say the song was about a shark while introducing it during a concert of his I went to over thirty years ago. It was a great concert, which included an acoustic version of "Reckless."
The angelic voice of olivia newton john singing the female part hammerhead.i think if anyone else tried to sing this song it will never sound as good as james ,its perfect the way he sings it
I forgot how good this song is until I heard it again on a regional radio station while travelling down the coast on a road trip ... wow ... I feel young again.
@@trevorgale1176 There are still some fine Australian artists out there if you look. Stonefield, a rocking group of four talented musicians who are all sisters. Busby Marou, an Aboriginal duo from Queensland who play happy and uncomplicated music, and a few more. They just don't get the same recognition that the more rubbish bands do.
I came to Australia at the end of 1984....how is it that I’ve never ever paid attention to this AMAZING song until now??? James Reyne has to be one of the most interesting and original singers I have ever heard!! His vocal delivery and his phrasing are what made me sit up and start taking notice of this song just a few nights ago when it was on the radio.....no one else sings like he does! This and “Downhearted”. Truly awesome pieces of Australian rock of the 1980’s, but still sound sooooo fresh today in 2019!
Frank not only one ,,lot us had brothers hated surfers skeggs , because Aussie crawl name lot people from parents other countries ,seen Aussie crawl album ,they bin it ,didn't understand it
1981 best year Aussie hits album ,s mondo rock INXS hitting their strapps dragon spent more time Melbourne than anywhere else ,men at Work ,used be able see them and angels tatts number places any weekend Melbourne ,,
Yeah Frank never heard anyone else say exactly what I been trying convert people years ,but one things can't push certain music never like told good should listen to ,,it's got find you ,that go,s for sex pistols,start off greatest rock'n'roll swindle ,look sid 19 singing old rock'n'roll music ,even disco version black Arabs ,who else make song Ronny Biggs ,great train robber ,Malcom McLaren one smart cookie if he seen something big rising ,,on it like buffalo girls ,goes punk to duck rock brilliant mind
Saw him last week at Caloundra. Still brilliant, still effortlessly cool, still has the best guitar battery in the business. No longer has the best mullet in the business.
17 yr old right here fk I'm glad my dad grew up listening to Aussie crawl and all that. Found so many great songs just from him pumping the TV volume up while cleaning the house out.
Would go to the Pier Hotel Frankston Australia and watch these boys live. Those were the days! Bring back the 70s and 80s. 🌺 Mount Martha Boys. AUSSIE BANDS WERE AND ARE THE BEST.
I've always loved the sound of this track, once I finally discovered that ONJ performed the backup I then realised why. James Reyne is also a legend even if I have no idea what he's saying 80% of the time.
That's actually one of the things I always loved about his singing. Alot of fun to sing along with once you do know the words. Reynian - not sure if it's another language so much as a dialect ;-P
Just had this playing in my car (quite loudly) as I was washing it on the driveway. A neighbour walking past stopped to tell me i had great taste in music 🤣👌🏼
"Hammerhead" is the second single from Australian rock musician James Reyne’s debut self-titled solo studio album, released in 1987. The track featured uncredited backing vocals by Olivia Newton-John.
@the one - I just read that off of Wikipedia too. Maybe cos she only sang the one word only a few times she wanted to remain uncredited? Her voice sounds incredible tho & anyone else's wouldn't have had the same feel. I love 80s music, it's my fave genre. Music really was music. None of this auto tuned crap that's spewed forth these days & singers & groups had images cos that's what they liked - not for (attempted) shock value/attention to sell their auto tuned rot that sounds just like the next person. The 80s had some gr8 Aussie singers & bands - eg - 1927, Pseudo Echo, Models, Kids In The Kitchen, Icehouse, Kate Ceberano, O N John, James Reyne, Eurogliders, Inxs, Kylie Minogue, Goanna, Divynals, Wa Wa Nee, Uncanny X Men, Australian Crawl, Darryl Braithwaite, John Farnham, Mental As Anything.....Aussie Aussie Aussie.
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After seeing the girls facial expression towards the end of the clip, I finally worked out what this song is about. A google search for the lyrics confirmed. Very, very good lyrics..
Lyrically James is Extraordinarily Fascinating. It's like a complex poetry of sorts that I never understood at the time, even growing up in the same area as James on the Morning Peninsula. It's wonderful to revisit the music of my youth with some Life behind me. Now I get It & Appreciate it even more now.
It took me more than a decade to find this song that used to play on radio! That time my english was even worst and I heard "in my head" instead of "hammerhead", so my quests always failed. Buy today - OH, TODAY! - I'm here and very glad :) (I thought the voice was very look alike of the Australian Crawl frontman, searched all the albums, never found anything... and I didn't know James Reyne had a solo career, hence I never looked for this song using his name. My god, why didn't I think of that before? haha...)
You know, I always picture myself singing this classic on "Saturday Night Live", singing and playing acoustic guitar, joined by Benmont Tench on keyboards, Jim Keltner on drums, Jeff Trott on electric guitar and backing vocals, and, on bass and backing vocals- Sheryl Crow!!!
probably better you dont understand the underlying message very nice song some might think it is a love song but certainly not the other replys sum it up.
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It was dying the minute slagdonna the untalented appeared and made everything about barbie boys and girls preening through plastic crappy manufactured slop, and howling Pariah Carey hags, bullshit Beatles clones Oasis and everything else today mainly under these 3 categories. And c/rap as you say.
@@kyachdistent1301 I like your attempt to pin point the very track or artist that was the catalyst for chart music starting to suck. Material girl? I have have thought about this topic often. I am going to go with Black Box "Right on Time" Everything changed after that. My friends all liked it and I was uh...wtf I gotta get new friends. Actually, I remember I did distance myself from them around that time.
@@InsubordinationFreak I feel the same about the people I know! I forgot to add that horrible plague-baring Pete Waterman machine-he was the forerunner to Simon Cowell and all those horrible barbie boyband and girl sluts that followed in the 90s and beyond. And it's a hell that's remained. All that changes is that it gets ADDED to all the time!
I was 18 when this came out, dating my sexy gf later to become my wife, we were cruising in my open top VW singing at the top of voices, not a care in the world. No smart phones, no internet to be seen anywhere
Wickedly poetic lyrics, JR delivery, ONJ's angelic backing vocal, and those soooo tasteful guitar fills towards the end ... lovely variations. Love it, the BEST!
Olivia's voice in this song, singing only 1 word, is the most beautiful, sensual and angelic thing I've heard in my entire life. I am from Argentina and if I could choose a country again, I would choose mine or Australia. Aussies do it better.
Hey James ! Love That you Managed ! To Grab ! Oliver Newton John's Voice ! For the Backing Vocals ! Of ! Hammerhead ( Since her Passing Today ! ! That lives ! On the COAST !( Like the Fall of Rome ! ( )D ! - Generations Twenty Three ; F.M! ) Good SLONG ! MANN !!
There are certain 80’s songs that give me an overwhelmingly painful and bittersweet sense of nostalgia. This is definitely one of them.
RIP Olivia Newton-John. Your backing vocals on this track were amazing
So glad someone else noticed!
The day she died I played this song. Her vocals are like the finest crystal on this song, RIP ONJ
Not alot of people know that it was her
Really
she really made this song complete, kudos to james for the collab
I'm here because Coles was playing it on their radio station. Most enjoyable grocery shop I've had
Coles radio is full of gems!
@@ykook7000 totally right. I now have it in my car
Followed by reckless would have made it even better
Hehe 🙂
Yeah true, for some reason theyre always playing the classics.
R.I.P Brad, this is your song... Anyone who survived this "silken slip of evil", strength and respect to you, anyone who didn't, vale...✌️a survivor..
Survivor here ✌️✌️
Ahhhh, if we could only return to our proletariat 1980’s and music like this !! RIP Olivia, Brad & Guy.
Olivia's vocals lift this already legendary song to another level. Simply perfect
yeppers..rip Olivia :(
I always thought so too🙂
Nah.... Just if you are not from Vic
All other states talk weird AF
The fun of Mr Reynes music is decoding what he's singing.
I couldn't make sense of this song when it was in the charts and 33 years on I'm no closer to understanding it.
@@saturupiah5940 It’s about addiction to heroin. Hammerhead was just another name for it. H, horse, scag, smack were others.
Stick a Babel Fish in your ear, that will decipher any language in the Universe.
DON'T PANIC.
@@alanstrom2221 Don’t eat my breakfast, put down my bun.......
Crack the code....impossible
I would have admired this even more back then if I knew what rubbish we'd be dished up in the future
Jim Jam lol, agreed mate, I have a new found respect for Reyne 30 yrs on !
81 baby here ✊🏽👌🏽
He was great then and still listen to him today .
@@dayarc8404 i was born in 77 but my earliest memories are from the 80's.I loved the 80's and 80's music.
@@ninjamaster7724 awesome ✊🏽👌🏽
I'm here to listen to the beautiful backing vocals from Olivia Newton John RIP.
The outro of this song, in my opinion, is the finest moment in Australian music history. RIP Livvy.
Amen to that. She had the voice of an angel...and now she is one. God bless you Olivia🙏🏻
Great comment, sir. I have lived with this song for so long and didn’t realise it was Livvy’s voice. And you have a point. Another thing for me to enjoy in this song due to awareness.
Wish we could have stayed in the 80s forever
youd have got bored...
@@thehydronator3021 No way !
@@rods6405 yes way
@@thehydronator3021 nah it was great my footy team were good and great music no pokies in venues and plenty of bands playing there's to many pubs closing now
AMEN!!
I'm from southern Brazil and this song marked my life, especially my summers. What I never imagined was that she was talking about heroin addiction. I've always lived it as a romantic song. It was music to take attitude and go to the girl. Anyway, it's great music.
It is both. His love is an addict, but he cannot live without her. To add another layer - a hammerhead as you know is a shark.
James did say the song was about a shark while introducing it during a concert of his I went to over thirty years ago. It was a great concert, which included an acoustic version of "Reckless."
Oh please, bore off.
Probably my favourite James Reyne song. Olivia's backing vocals are just lovely - as was she. RIP, Olivia.
The angelic voice of olivia newton john singing the female part hammerhead.i think if anyone else tried to sing this song it will never sound as good as james ,its perfect the way he sings it
I forgot how good this song is until I heard it again on a regional radio station while travelling down the coast on a road trip ... wow ... I feel young again.
On few of my playlist
Road trips always had this track
We've all been in real life
Know or have known of a love one who has decided to go down the wrong road ,this song sums that up
I am totally convinced that Australia has some really talented musicians!
You're not wrong, Australia and New zealand have incredible musc and artists
In the late Eighties when I lived in OZ the talent was not only amazing but very accessible. You could see these guys in the local pubs.
Your are wrong, we "had".
@@trevorgale1176 There are still some fine Australian artists out there if you look. Stonefield, a rocking group of four talented musicians who are all sisters. Busby Marou, an Aboriginal duo from Queensland who play happy and uncomplicated music, and a few more. They just don't get the same recognition that the more rubbish bands do.
You have no clue, here's some more mondo rock come said the Boy, noise works take me back , INXS, ACDC and more
Reyne had one of the best 'mullets' in the business years ago ..
James Reyne is an Australian Icon. It was the 80's all you knockers !!
Dead set.true
Roger Campbell and he got ONJ on backing vocals. Legend. Wish we could go back to this time.
He should have sung in English.
Only outsiders dont get the beauty of James Reyne
Locals get it
"...some silken slip of evil..." A sublime lyric.
Brill riffs to match
Nmzond
Shame that it sounds like "some soup gets lit by weevil".
Reynglish at its finest.
Sounds like a line for drinking a beer
I had to listen to it again because I just learned that Olivia Newton John did the backup vocals on Hammerhead. Love it even more now.
One of the greatest songs i've heard, if only the kids of today could get this.
I'm making a playlist for my children to listen to when the time is right.
Lyrics
Be my ritual
Be my one desire
Be my light be my pure delight
Be my purifier
You'll never know what you do to me
Five times a day
My self destruction you'll over see
Don't go don't go away
Just a touch of you
Just a taste
Like kissing God is what we do
Let's go to waste
You'll never know what you do to me
So sublime
You're like the Devil in Heaven
Ever, every time
You've been hanging with the nicest people
Hammerhead
Some silken slip of evil
Hammerhead
Take food from my mouth
Take my sex
Take my friends take my lovers
Here take this
You'll never know what you do to me
Maybe I'm wrong
Let's take this journey together
Please come please come along
Please come please come along
You've been hanging with the nicest people
Hammerhead
Some silken slip of evil
Hammerhead
Oohh ooooohhhhh
You've been hanging with the nicest people
Hammerhead
Some silken slip of evil
Hammerhead
You've been hanging with the nicest people
Hammerhead
Some silken slip of evil
Hammerhead
You've been hanging with the nicest people
Hammerhead
Some silken slip of evil
Hammerhead
You've been hanging with the nicest people
Hammerhead
Some silken slip of evil
Hammerhead
You've been hanging with the nicest people
Hammerhead
Some silken slip of evil
Hammerhead
You've been hanging with the nicest people
Hammerhead
Some silken slip of evil
Hammerhead
Songwriters: Simon Cyril Hussey / James Michael Reyne
Hammerhead lyrics © Words & Music A Div Of Big Deal Music LLC
Artist: James Reyne
Album: James Reyne
Released: 1987
Genre: Rock
This is the first time I have seen the lyrics and totally different to what I was singing!!!
Thanks for the English version
Nobody understands a word this guy sings
@@misstery5942 even in English it's hard to decode.
What does a shark have to do with his love life?
@@misstery5942 try this.
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James Reyne is a legend of Aussie music, and songs like this show why. He will never be forgotten. Great backing vocals by Olivia Newton-John too!
RIP beautiful Olivia 💐Love her backing vocals on this song.
Ahh the 80's..best music, mullets, hypercolor shirts, acid wash jeans..I could go on. Those were the days.
U bogan
Good song and backing vocals by Olivia Newton-John - voice of an angel
She is so perfect I love her!👍💯
u sure that's her?
Thanks for this i had no idea!! Can just hear it so Perfectly now 😄
@@thehydronator3021 yep true story she sung backing vocals...
She's credited as backing vocals... So yes, it's her.
Absolute legend.
James Reyne has the most unique voice...just beautiful.
Olivia Neutron Bombs back up vocals were lovely too !!!
Love this song... RIP Olivia
I came to Australia at the end of 1984....how is it that I’ve never ever paid attention to this AMAZING song until now??? James Reyne has to be one of the most interesting and original singers I have ever heard!! His vocal delivery and his phrasing are what made me sit up and start taking notice of this song just a few nights ago when it was on the radio.....no one else sings like he does! This and “Downhearted”. Truly awesome pieces of Australian rock of the 1980’s, but still sound sooooo fresh today in 2019!
Check out some Company of Strangers too.. Motor City is amazing.
Kane Will do! 👍🏼
Frank not only one ,,lot us had brothers hated surfers skeggs , because Aussie crawl name lot people from parents other countries ,seen Aussie crawl album ,they bin it ,didn't understand it
1981 best year Aussie hits album ,s mondo rock INXS hitting their strapps dragon spent more time Melbourne than anywhere else ,men at Work ,used be able see them and angels tatts number places any weekend Melbourne ,,
Yeah Frank never heard anyone else say exactly what I been trying convert people years ,but one things can't push certain music never like told good should listen to ,,it's got find you ,that go,s for sex pistols,start off greatest rock'n'roll swindle ,look sid 19 singing old rock'n'roll music ,even disco version black Arabs ,who else make song Ronny Biggs ,great train robber ,Malcom McLaren one smart cookie if he seen something big rising ,,on it like buffalo girls ,goes punk to duck rock brilliant mind
Hola, tengo 27 años y recién descubro a James Reyne, ¡es sensacional! Saludos desde Perú. 🇵🇪
Glad you like them , cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Saw him last week at Caloundra. Still brilliant, still effortlessly cool, still has the best guitar battery in the business. No longer has the best mullet in the business.
I saw him at The Charles in Perth. Absolutely rocked. He even covered Steelie Dan and did a stonking version of Do it again. He’s absolute class.
At 3 minutes 11 seconds it Still sends shivers down my spine as soon as Olivia starts singing her part Hammerhead!!
Had no idea it was Our Livvy, makes sense though, they're both class acts to this day
Agreed
3:11
17 yr old right here fk I'm glad my dad grew up listening to Aussie crawl and all that. Found so many great songs just from him pumping the TV volume up while cleaning the house out.
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RIP Olivia. Thanx for your lovely voice 💐❤️
2019?? Still a favorite for sure!! Modern songs just won't last like this era did. Thank you universal power for my living through the 80s and 90s.
copy that Tom
I was in 93’ but fuck I wish I was an 80, or even 75. I don’t understand how prople born then arent more diverse (in aust), usually squares.
Would go to the Pier Hotel Frankston Australia and watch these boys live.
Those were the days! Bring back the 70s and 80s.
🌺 Mount Martha Boys.
AUSSIE BANDS WERE AND ARE THE BEST.
Remember the vines?
Wrong mount Joyce ,try Eliza.
A great and unmistakable Australian musical composer & vocalist ! 🙏
I've always loved the sound of this track, once I finally discovered that ONJ performed the backup I then realised why. James Reyne is also a legend even if I have no idea what he's saying 80% of the time.
Yeah he needs subtitles. LOL !
I DONT MIND HOW HE SOUNDS.. CLASSIC AUSSIE ROCK. LONG MAY IT LIVE !!!
Peter Hofland that is pure brilliance mate. I wish the hell I was that witty
That's actually one of the things I always loved about his singing. Alot of fun to sing along with once you do know the words. Reynian - not sure if it's another language so much as a dialect ;-P
Its about heroine.
Just had this playing in my car (quite loudly) as I was washing it on the driveway. A neighbour walking past stopped to tell me i had great taste in music 🤣👌🏼
Still great and listening to in 2019
Still listening in 2024, hope you are too.
A legendary song, beautiful backing vocals by lovely Livvy 🎤❤️
"Hammerhead" is the second single from Australian rock musician James Reyne’s debut self-titled solo studio album, released in 1987. The track featured uncredited backing vocals by Olivia Newton-John.
And she didn't even get paid!
@@TheSlipperyOtter well, it is a very small part. Unless she chose to do it for free. 😁
@the one - I just read that off of Wikipedia too. Maybe cos she only sang the one word only a few times she wanted to remain uncredited? Her voice sounds incredible tho & anyone else's wouldn't have had the same feel. I love 80s music, it's my fave genre. Music really was music. None of this auto tuned crap that's spewed forth these days & singers & groups had images cos that's what they liked - not for (attempted) shock value/attention to sell their auto tuned rot that sounds just like the next person. The 80s had some gr8 Aussie singers & bands - eg - 1927, Pseudo Echo, Models, Kids In The Kitchen, Icehouse, Kate Ceberano, O N John, James Reyne, Eurogliders, Inxs, Kylie Minogue, Goanna, Divynals, Wa Wa Nee, Uncanny X Men, Australian Crawl, Darryl Braithwaite, John Farnham, Mental As Anything.....Aussie Aussie Aussie.
@@jayelee8041 you left out a few, jimmy barnes, diesel, cold chisel, ian moss just to name a few 🤪
James Reyne one of Australia's best singers so underrated
Totally
A legend
Fkn love this song listened to it a million times never knew Olivia was a background singer!
I lived in South Africa then and a friend in Australia sent me a tape of James Reyne. Love it still..
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Still gives me the most intense shivers,absolutely incredible song.
Good song and backing vocals by Olivia Newton-John - voice of an angel
🇧🇷2019 ouvindo no Brasil, música boa não envelhece. 🇧🇷
Vdd
After seeing the girls facial expression towards the end of the clip, I finally worked out what this song is about. A google search for the lyrics confirmed. Very, very good lyrics..
Lyrically James is Extraordinarily Fascinating. It's like a complex poetry of sorts that I never understood at the time, even growing up in the same area as James on the Morning Peninsula.
It's wonderful to revisit the music of my youth with some Life behind me. Now I get It & Appreciate it even more now.
I’m in thailand listening to this song, great song from the Aussie crawl, smooth vocals with smooth backing vocals
It took me more than a decade to find this song that used to play on radio! That time my english was even worst and I heard "in my head" instead of "hammerhead", so my quests always failed. Buy today - OH, TODAY! - I'm here and very glad :)
(I thought the voice was very look alike of the Australian Crawl frontman, searched all the albums, never found anything... and I didn't know James Reyne had a solo career, hence I never looked for this song using his name. My god, why didn't I think of that before? haha...)
It's really a great song, I'm glad you found it after so many years!
I love James Reyne and this is a song I can relate to it and James has a raw unique voice talent galore and very handsome❤
Still listening nov 21. Amazing song
Love this one. Olivia guest vocals make it so sweet.
Bons tempos aqueles que a surf music tocava nas melhores rádios fm.
You know, I always picture myself singing this classic on "Saturday Night Live", singing and playing acoustic guitar, joined by Benmont Tench on keyboards, Jim Keltner on drums, Jeff Trott on electric guitar and backing vocals, and, on bass and backing vocals- Sheryl Crow!!!
I've listened to this song for nearly 30 yrs and it's still fantastic despite never understanding the lyrics!
It’s vaguely about heroin addiction that was really taking off at this time in Oz
Hammer was a popular slang for heroin,cause it hit hard
He's got lazy diction.
@@billymack333 No.....it was all the rage in the 70's.....left overs in the 80's
probably better you dont understand the underlying message very nice song some might think it is a love song but certainly not the other replys sum it up.
james reynes best song by far a classic & we get olivia as a bonus Awesome
Ty YT algorithm. First heard of James Reyne in Aus back in 1987! Inxs were playing at the Sydney Opera House. Good Times! 🙏🏻 ♥
Backing vocals unreal!
that's because they are sung by one of the best ever Olivia Newton-John
This is one of my favourite tracks by James Reyne...what a talent and so handsome!!!!
Very sexy and talented.My fav track of his too.Motor too fast comes a close 2nd.
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Such a great singer in those days.. as well as good looking.. still love his music...
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February 2020. Underated artist to this day. Classic 80’s. Aweome.
What a shame that this kind of raw talent is shoved aside from the pop charts these days.
Your so right. Music today is absolute rubbish. Our culture is dying in lieu of rap music.
It was dying the minute slagdonna the untalented appeared and made everything about barbie boys and girls preening through plastic crappy manufactured slop, and howling Pariah Carey hags, bullshit Beatles clones Oasis and everything else today mainly under these 3 categories. And c/rap as you say.
@@kyachdistent1301 I like your attempt to pin point the very track or artist that was the catalyst for chart music starting to suck. Material girl? I have have thought about this topic often. I am going to go with Black Box "Right on Time" Everything changed after that. My friends all liked it and I was uh...wtf I gotta get new friends. Actually, I remember I did distance myself from them around that time.
@@InsubordinationFreak I feel the same about the people I know! I forgot to add that horrible plague-baring Pete Waterman machine-he was the forerunner to Simon Cowell and all those horrible barbie boyband and girl sluts that followed in the 90s and beyond. And it's a hell that's remained. All that changes is that it gets ADDED to all the time!
Internet killed indie rock
Amazing era for Aussie music.
Awesome song , awesome beat , Awesome singer James Reyne !
January 2024 and this song is STILL amazing!
listening to these songs nowadays we realize how important the 80's were for culture all over the world
Olivia Newton John does the backup vocals at the end of the song
Awesome song , awesome beat , Awesome singer James Reyne !
Great song , what a legend.
One of the most beautifully sad songs ever....... Thank you❤️🇦🇺
Here in 2022 ...cause damn I love Reynsie🤙🏼❤️
Olivia such a sweet voice...
ONJ has a sweet voice indeed,and what a sweet person she is too. For me,her backing vocals make this song what it is.
Fanks
Simply Fabulous; ONJ is also great as the backing singer.
Her vocal contribution here is perfectly exquisite.
Great song. I allways used to sing this song . I still like james reyne.
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Heard this radio the other totally had forgotten this and I loved this song still do
awesome still all these years latter
I was 18 when this came out, dating my sexy gf later to become my wife, we were cruising in my open top VW singing at the top of voices, not a care in the world. No smart phones, no internet to be seen anywhere
One of his best songs.
Yes our gorgeous Olivia coming in toward the end of this track is simply stunning! RIP ONJ
Love it. Classic Australian Music...
Isso sim é música de verdade.
One listening to this song is not enough,
Eppee !!
How good is James Reyne. SO underrated, such a brilliant Aussie talent. Blows most overseas out of the water
Hope James dont underrate himself
Wickedly poetic lyrics, JR delivery, ONJ's angelic backing vocal, and those soooo tasteful guitar fills towards the end ... lovely variations. Love it, the BEST!
"I liked it and I understood it and I'm an American."-🤔.🌐🎧🎸🎹🌐.
Roger Temple ,, it’s about heroin addiction . Classic. I still gets shivers
Yes
It's brilliant
🇺🇸🇬🇸
The most beautiful song of my era
Olivia's voice in this song, singing only 1 word, is the most beautiful, sensual and angelic thing I've heard in my entire life. I am from Argentina and if I could choose a country again, I would choose mine or Australia. Aussies do it better.
Aussie classic. Just like my Ford F6 Falcon (Typhoon). Good work James !!
This song made me kick the habit because sometimes life is a illusion,but u must face the reality!
Bs,
Hey James ! Love That you Managed ! To Grab ! Oliver Newton John's Voice ! For the Backing Vocals ! Of ! Hammerhead ( Since her Passing Today ! ! That lives ! On the COAST !( Like the Fall of Rome ! ( )D ! - Generations Twenty Three ; F.M! ) Good SLONG ! MANN !!
Music I grew up with - always good to listen to, brings back so many memories...
Came to listen, stayed for the mullet, learned what hammerhead meant.
Livvy's nasal vibrato is so perfect and sexy in this song james made a great choice.
One of my top ten favourite songs. Olivia's voice is just the epitome of wow.... 😍
I’m here cause I’m at the doctors, brings back many a great music sessions
JAMES CAME OUT WITH AWESOME SOLO PERFORMANCES BUT MY FAV WAS SHUTDOWN FROM 1982 FROM SONS OF BEACHES LP.
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I just realised James Reyne is our Daryl Hall.
R.i.p Olivia Such a Beautiful Lady 🤗🤍💜
Love James reyne love this song ♥️♥️♥️