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Colin Hay Remakes Down Under

by Paul Cashmere on July 20, 2012

in News

Colin Hay has re-recorded his classic Men At Work hit ‘Down Under’ minus the flute riff.

Colin Hay photo by Ros O'Gorman Noise11.com

Colin Hay photo by Ros O'Gorman

Hay told The Australian that he wanted to make a new version of the song minus the flute solo to prove that it didn’t make any difference to the song.

Men At Work lost a court case against publisher Larrikin Music claiming the song infringed on their copyright to ‘Kookaburra Sitting In The Old Gum Tree’.

The case sent Men At Work flutist and co-writer Greg Ham into a downward spiral. He committed suicide in April.

The new version of the song will be used in a Telstra commercial. It will be released through iTunes next Friday. (July 27, 2012).

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