Paul Kelly (Australian musician)
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Birth name | Paul Maurice Kelly |
Born | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia | 13 January 1955
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Years active | 1974–present |
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Website | paulkelly |
Paul Maurice Kelly
After growing up in Adelaide, Kelly travelled around Australia before settling in Melbourne in 1976. He became involved in the pub rock scene and drug culture and recorded two albums with the Dots. Kelly moved to Sydney by 1985, where he formed Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls. The band was renamed Paul Kelly and the Messengers, initially only for international releases, to avoid possible racial interpretations of the word "coloured". At the end of the 1980s, Kelly returned to Melbourne, and in 1991 he disbanded the Messengers.
Kelly's Top 40 singles include "
In 2001, the
Kelly was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017 for distinguished service to the performing arts and to the promotion of the national identity through contributions as a singer, songwriter and musician.[4] Kelly was married and divorced twice; he has three children and resides in St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne.
Early life
Paul Maurice Kelly[5] was born on 13 January 1955 in Adelaide, to John Erwin Kelly, a lawyer, and Josephine (née Filippini), the sixth of eight surviving children.[6][7] According to Rip It Up magazine, "legend has it" that Kelly's mother gave birth to him "in a taxi outside North Adelaide's Calvary Hospital".[8]
Although Kelly was raised as a
John Kelly died in 1968 at the age of 52, after having been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease three years earlier.[13] Paul Kelly was thirteen years old when his father died.[14] Kelly described his father: "I have good memories, he was the kind of father that, well, I missed him when he died very much. The older children were growing into him at the time he died. He was not well enough to play sport with me."[15][16]
Kelly's maternal grandfather was an
Filippini was touring Australia in 1914 with a Spanish opera company when World War I broke out; Filippini stayed and later married Anne McPharland, one of his students.[11] As Countessa Anne Filippini, she was Australia's first female symphony orchestra conductor.[15] She sang the role of Marguerite in Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio Perth's performance of Faust in 1928.[17]
Kelly's grandparents started the Italo-Australian Opera Company, which toured the country in the 1920s.[18]
Josephine raised the younger children alone after John's death, but found time to assist others in need.[14] Paul's oldest sister, Anne, became a nun and went on to write hymns, while a younger sister, Mary-Jo, plays piano in Latin bands and teaches music.[19][20]
An older brother, Martin, works for Edmund Rice International,[21][22] with another brother, Tony, a drug and alcohol counsellor, who ran as an Australian Greens candidate in the 2001 and 2004 federal elections.[23][24] Josephine Kelly moved to Brisbane, where she died in 2000 at the age of 76.[25]
Kelly attended
Kelly spent several years working odd jobs, travelling around the country and learning guitar before he moved to Melbourne in 1976.[29][30]
Career
1974–1984: Early career and with the Dots
While travelling around Australia, Paul Kelly made his first public performance in 1974 in Hobart.[19][32] He later recalled:
I was living there at the time and there was a folk club at Salamanca Place. They had a night, I think a Monday night, where anyone could get up. I sang Dylan's "Girl from North Country" and "Streets of Forbes", a traditional Australian song about Ben Hall. I can't really remember how it went – I remember I had a lot to drink afterwards from relief. I was incredibly nervous.[33]
His first published song, "It's the Falling Apart that Makes You", was written after listening to Van Morrison's Astral Weeks at the age of 19,[26] although in an interview with Drum Media he recalled writing his first song: "It was an open-tuning and had four lines about catching trains. I have got a recording of it somewhere. It was called 'Catching a Train'. I wrote a lot of songs about trains early on, trains and fires, and then I moved on to water".[33]
In 1976, Kelly appeared on Debutantes, a compilation album featuring various Melbourne-based artists, and joined pub-rockers The High Rise Bombers from 1977 to 1978.[30][34] The High Rise Bombers included Kelly (vocals, guitar, songwriter), Martin Armiger (guitar, vocals, songwriter), Lee Cass (bass guitar), Chris Dyson (guitar), Sally Ford (saxophone, songwriter), John Lloyd (drums), and Keith Shadwick (saxophone).[35] Chris Langman (guitar, vocals) replaced Dyson in early 1978. [Langman never played with the High Rise Bombers and is incorrectly listed as a guitarist on the Melbourne Club album]. In August, after Armiger left for The Sports and Ford for The Kevins, Kelly formed Paul Kelly and the Dots with Langman and Lloyd.[30] The High Rise Bombers recorded two tracks, "She's Got It" and "Domestic Criminal", which appeared on The Melbourne Club, a 1981 compilation by various artists on Missing Link Records.[30]
Kelly had already established himself as a respected songwriter—other Melbourne musicians would go to see him on their nights off.[36] Richard Guilliatt, writing for The Monthly, later described Kelly from a 1979 performance at Richmond's Kingston Hotel, the singer was "a skinny guy with a head of black curls framing a pale face and a bent nose... singing with his eyes closed, one arm outstretched and the other resting on the body of the Fender Telecaster".[37] Kelly was introduced to Hilary Brown at one of the Dots' gigs and they later married – the relationship is described in "When I First Met Your Ma" (1992).[38][39] Brown's father supplied Kelly with a gravy recipe – used on "How to Make Gravy" (1996).[40] Their son, Declan, was born in 1980.[38][39]
The Dots included
In an October 1982 interview with The Australian Women's Weekly, Kelly indicated he was more pleased with Manila than Talk as "It has more unity ... with this one we didn't have people dropping into the studio to play."[45] Years later Kelly disavowed both Dots albums: "I wish I could grab the other two and put 'em in a big hole".[19][46] The 1982 film, Starstruck, was directed by Gillian Armstrong and starred Jo Kennedy.[47] Paul Kelly and the Dots supplied "Rocking Institution" for its soundtrack and Kelly added to the score.[48] Kennedy released "Body and Soul", a cover of Split Enz' "She Got Body, She Got Soul" as a shared single with "Rocking Institution".[48] Acting in a minor role in Starstruck was Kaarin Fairfax, who later became Kelly's second wife.[19][47] Kelly was without a recording contract after the Dots folded in 1982.[27]
Paul Kelly Band was formed in 1983 with
1985–1991: Coloured Girls to Messengers
Paul Kelly stayed with Don Walker (Cold Chisel) in Kings Cross – Walker had lived with Hilary's sister – and wrote new songs on Walker's piano.[52] Kelly then moved into a flat with Paul Hewson (Dragon) in Elizabeth Bay.[39][53] Both Walker and Hewson encouraged Kelly to continue with his song-writing.[52] By January 1985, he recorded the self-funded album—at a cost of $3,500—Post.[10] Session musicians included Michael Barclay (Weddings Parties Anything) on harmonies, guitarist Steve Connolly (The Zimmermen), and bass guitarist Ian Rilen (Rose Tattoo, X).[27][54] They spent two weeks recording at Clive Shakespeare's studio. Shakespeare engineered the album and co-produced with Kelly. It was released in May 1985 on the independent label White Records, and licensed to Mushroom Records.[27][46]
Kelly dedicated Post to his former flatmate, Hewson, who had died of a heroin overdose in January.
Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls were named through a joke based on Lou Reed's song "Walk on the Wild Side".[30][46] Armiger soon left, and the Coloured Girls line-up stabilised in late 1985 as Barclay, Bull, Connolly, and Schofield.[30][34] Stuart Coupe, Kelly's manager, advised him to sign with Regular Records due to difficulty re-signing with Mushroom's Michael Gudinski.[46] Michelle Higgins, Mushroom's public relations officer, was a Kelly supporter and locked herself into a Sebel Townhouse Hotel room—at Mushroom's expense—for nearly a week in mid-1986, and refused to leave until Gudinski had signed Kelly to a two-album recording contract.[46][59] Kelly performed for The Rock Party, a charity project initiated by The National Campaign Against Drug Abuse, which included other Australasian musicians. The Rock Party released a 12" single, "Everything to Live For", which was produced by Joe Wissert, Phil Rigger, and Phil Beazley.[60][61]
In September, Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls released a 24-track double
Gossip was co-produced by Kelly and Alan Thorne (
Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls' second album, Under the Sun, was released in late 1987 in Australia and New Zealand, and in early 1988 in North America and Europe (under the name Paul Kelly and the Messengers).[34] On the Kent Music Report Albums Chart, it reached No. 19. The lead single "To Her Door", written by Kelly, peaked at No. 14 on the related singles chart.[42][66] Forster indicated that the song demonstrated one of Kelly's finest qualities as a songwriter which is his unforced empathy.[63] DeGagne observed a style similar to Elvis Costello and Steve Forbert, and said the album provided "acoustically bright story songs and character-based tales with unlimited substance".[67]
Another single, "
So Much Water So Close to Home was released in 1989 by Paul Kelly and the Messengers in all markets. It peaked at No. 10 on the ARIA Albums Chart, but none of its singles reached the ARIA Top 40 Singles Chart.[68] Forster stated that, with "Everything's Turning to White", Kelly shows mastery in condensing a Raymond Carver tale of fishermen who discover a dead woman's body but continue to fish before reporting their find.[63] The same short story was used for the 2006 film, Jindabyne, for which Kelly composed the soundtrack.[74] DeGagne preferred "Everything's Turning to White" and "Sweet Guy" to the other album tracks, which "seem a little weak in the content department".[75] Kelly relocated back to Melbourne after having lived in Sydney for six years.[15][19] Another US tour was undertaken, but there was no further chart success for albums or singles released in the US market.[30]
In 1991 the band released
"To Her Door" and "Treaty" were voted into the APRA Top 30 Australian songs of all time in 2001.[82] Paul Kelly and the Messengers gave their last performance in August 1991, with Kelly set to pursue a solo career.[30] He justified his decision: "We forged a style together. But I felt if we had kept going it would have got formulaic and that's why I broke it up. I wanted to try and start moving into other areas, start mixing things up".[55] Paul Kelly and the Messengers' final album, Hidden Things, was a collection of previously released B-sides, stray non-LP tracks, radio sessions, and other rarities. It was released in May 1992, and reached No. 29.[68] One track, "Rally Around the Drum", written with Archie Roach, was about an indigenous tent boxing man.[30]
1992–99: Solo career and with others
Since 1992 Paul Kelly has had a solo career, fronted the Paul Kelly Band, and worked in occasional collaborations with other songwriters and performers.
Kelly's first post-Messengers solo release was the live double CD Live, May 1992, released in November 1992.[30] AllMusic's Brett Hartenbach noted that Kelly's band had fleshed out his songs in the studio, but he was still able to show "his vignettes of life, love, and the underbelly of both have plenty of power on their own".[90] Kelly had relocated to Los Angeles and signed with Vanguard Records to tour the US as a solo artist.[30] While in Los Angeles he produced fellow Australian Renée Geyer's album Difficult Woman (1994).[34] Kelly returned to Australia in 1993 and wrote a collection of lyrics, aptly titled Lyrics, which opens with a quote from Anton Chekhov: "I don't have what you would call a philosophy or coherent world view so I shall have to limit myself to describing how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die and speak."[91]: ii [92]
His next album Wanted Man, released in 1994, reached No. 11.[68] Kelly also composed music for the 1994 film Everynight ... Everynight, directed by Alkinos Tsilimidos. It is set in the notorious H division of Victoria's Pentridge Prison.[93][94] Kelly's next solo releases were Deeper Water in 1995 and Live at the Continental and the Esplanade in 1996.[34] Between March and May 1995 Kelly undertook a seven-week tour of North America, appearing on several dates with Liz Phair and Joe Jackson.[95]
By 1996, Paul Kelly Band members included Stephen Hadley (bass, ex-
In 1997, Kelly released his compilation album, Songs from the South: Paul Kelly's Greatest Hits, on Mushroom Records.[34] The 20-track album peaked at No. 2, and has achieved quadruple platinum certification, indicating sales of over 280,000.[68][97] Kelly won the ARIA Award in 1997 for 'Best Male Artist', having been previously nominated in 1993, 1995, and 1996.[70] At 20 September 1997 ceremony, he was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.[98] Kelly won the 'Best Male Artist' award again in 1998, and has been nominated for the same award a further seven times.[70]
Kelly's next album,
In 1999 Kelly formed the band Professor Ratbaggy with Hadley (bass guitar, backing vocals), Haymes (keyboards, organ, backing vocals) and Luscombe (drums). Kelly provided guitars and vocals for their debut album, Professor Ratbaggy, on EMI Records.[104] Songs were written jointly by all group members and their work was a more groove-oriented style compared to Kelly's usual folk or rock formula, using samples, synthesiser and percussion.[30] Kelly's second anthology of lyrics entitled Don't Start Me Talking was first published in 1999, with subsequent songs appended in the 2004 edition.[105] This second edition was added to the Victorian Certificate of Education English reading list for Year 12 (final year of secondary schooling) in 2006.[106]
2000–2009: Soundtracks and tribute albums
During the 2000s Paul Kelly worked as a composer for film and TV scores and soundtracks, including
Kelly also acted in One Night the Moon alongside his then wife, Fairfax, and with their younger daughter Memphis.[107][118] All three sing on the soundtrack, including together for the lullaby, "One Night the Moon".[119] According to Romaine Moreton, Australian Screen Online curator, the "lullaby that the family sings, written by Paul Kelly, sets the tone of the film ... The song is used in this film as a vehicle to explore the characters' interior worlds, something very unusual for a film".[119] Kelly and Fairfax separated before the film's release.[87]
In March 2001 Kelly was a support act for Bob Dylan's tour of Australia.[123] Between August and November Kelly performed a series of acoustic shows in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, and France (the latter supporting Ani DiFranco).[124] In 2002 he undertook a six-week tour of North America,[125][126] which was followed by a tour of the UK and Ireland later that year.[127] In 2002 and 2003 two tribute albums of Kelly's songs were released: Women at the Well featured songs performed by female artists, including Bic Runga, Jenny Morris, Renée Geyer, Magic Dirt, Rebecca Barnard (Rebecca's Empire), Christine Anu, and Kasey Chambers;[32][128] and Stories of Me, which featured fellow songwriters James Reyne, Mia Dyson, and Jeff Lang.[129] Chambers, a country music artist, sees Kelly as a role model: "He's the perfect example of the storyteller that I would love to be".[130] In 2003 Kelly undertook a tour of North America, the UK, and Ireland, performing at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival and again at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.[131][132]
In March 2004 Kelly performed across North America, including New York, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and Los Angeles.[139] This was followed by a more extensive series of shows between July and September throughout North America and Europe.[140] In December, in Melbourne, Kelly performed 100 of his songs in alphabetical order over two nights.[141] A similar set of shows were performed in a studio at Sydney Opera House in December 2006, these and similar sets became known as his A to Z shows.[142][143] Foggy Highway was a second bluegrass-oriented album for Kelly, credited to Paul Kelly and the Stormwater Boys and issued in 2005. It peaked at No. 23 on the ARIA albums charts.[68] The line-up for the majority of the tracks was Kelly, Mick Albeck (fiddle), James Gillard (bass guitar), Rod McCormack (guitar), Ian Simpson (banjo), and Trev Warner (mandolin).[144] As with Smoke (his previous bluegrass release), Foggy Highway consisted of a mix of new compositions and rearranged Kelly classics. The Canadian edition of the release included a four-song bonus EP of out-takes.[145]
In June 2005 Kelly put together Timor Leste – Freedom Rising, a collaboration of Australian artists donating new recordings, unreleased tracks, and b-sides to make connections between a wide range of music to raise money for environmental, health, and education projects in
Kelly formed Stardust Five in 2006, with the same line-up as Paul Kelly and the Boon Companions from Ways & Means. They released their self-titled debut album in March, with each member contributing by composing the music and Kelly providing lyrics.[152] The album has backing vocals by Prior on two tracks.[153] Kelly toured North America again in 2006,[154] appearing together with The Waifs at clubs and festivals in several US states and the Canadian province of Alberta.[155][156] In November–December Kelly undertook his A-Z tour, a series of solo acoustic performances playing 100 of his songs in alphabetical order over four nights, at the Brisbane Powerhouse, Melbourne's Spiegeltent, and at the Sydney Opera House.[143][157]
In 2007 Kelly released Stolen Apples, containing songs based on religious themes; it peaked at No. 8, and achieved gold record status.[68][158] Following the album's recording, Dan Luscombe left to join The Drones. He was replaced by Ashley Naylor (Even) on guitar and Cameron Bruce (The Polaroids) on keyboards.[8] A tour in support of the album saw Kelly perform the entire album plus selected hits from his catalogue. One of the last performances, on 20 September 2007 in Toowoomba, was filmed and released on DVD as Live Apples: Stolen Apples Performed Live in its Entirety Plus 16 More Songs, in April 2008.[159][160]
Kelly made his first appearance at the
In November, as a result of the acquisition EMI released Songs from the South – Volume 2, a collection of Kelly's songs from the last decade, following on from Songs from the South – Volume 1.[167] The new compilation featured the first physical release of Kelly's song, "Shane Warne". Volume 1 and Volume 2 are available separately but also as a combined double album. EMI released a DVD, Paul Kelly – The Video Collection 1985–2008,[167][168] a collection of Kelly's home videos made over the past 23 years. Also included are several live performances.[166] Songs from the South – Volume 2 included one new song, "Thoughts in the Middle of the Night", which he described as "It's a band song, we all wrote it together. There's a poem by James Fenton, a British poet, called "The Mistake", which is probably an influence on the lyrics. It's a waking up in the middle of the night song, for anyone who's woken up at 3 am and not been able to get back to sleep".[33]
In the beginning of 2009 he supported
On 13 and 14 November, radio station Triple J presented a Kelly tribute concert—marking his 30th anniversary as a solo artist—at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne, and highlighted his contribution to Australian music. The line-up included Missy Higgins, John Butler, Paul Dempsey (Something for Kate), Katy Steele (Little Birdy), Bob Evans, Ozi Batla (The Herd), Dan Kelly, Clare Bowditch, Jae Laffer (The Panics), Adalita Srsen (Magic Dirt), Dan Sultan, and Megan Washington interpreting Kelly's songs, with members of Augie March as the backing band and Ashley Naylor as musical director.[55] A recording of the concerts was released by ABC Music as a DVD and a double CD, Before Too Long, with a bonus CD featuring original songs by Kelly, on 19 February 2010.[174] Kelly's national 'More Songs from the South' tour in December 2009 included band members Vika Bull on vocals, Peter Luscombe on drums, Bill McDonald on bass guitar and backing vocals, Naylor on guitar, and Cameron Bruce on keyboards.[175][176] Kelly contributed to the national magazine, The Monthly, from 2009 to 2010.[177]
2010–2013: How to Make Gravy, Stories of Me and Spring and Fall
Paul Kelly published his memoir, How to Make Gravy, via
On 29 September 2012 Kelly performed "How to Make Gravy" and "Leaps and Bounds" at the
Also in October, a biographical film,
2013–2016: Collaborative albums
During February and March 2013, Kelly and Neil Finn undertook a collaborative tour of Australia.[195][196] Their performance on 10 March at the Sydney Opera House was recorded for the live album, Goin' Your Way (8 November 2013).[195] It was issued as a 2× CD, which peaked at No. 5 on the ARIA Albums Chart;[199] and also as a DVD, which peaked at No. 1 on the related ARIA Music DVD Chart.[200] Later in March, Kelly toured New Zealand with Dan Kelly to promote Spring and Fall by playing in church venues.[201]
Goin' Your Way was the first of several collaborative albums Kelly would release in the following years.
2017–present: Life Is Fine and Nature
Kelly's first solo album in five years, Life Is Fine, was released in August 2017.[68] The album became his first number-one album and won him four ARIA Awards at that year's ceremony.[68][202] In November and December 2017, Kelly and his band undertook a seventeen-performance tour of thirteen metropolitan and regional Australian cities, as well as four performances in three cities in New Zealand to promote the release of Life is Fine. Supports on the tour included Steve Earle, Middle Kids, Busby Marou and The Eastern.[203][204] Kelly was also a featured artist on the 2018 Groovin' the Moo festival.
In August 2018, Kelly announced the release of a new album, Nature, in October. The album's lead single, "With the One I Love", was released on the same day.
On 5 February 2020, Kelly released a single titled, "Sleep, Australia, Sleep". The song addresses Australia's response to climate change.[207] Before the release of the single, the lyrics were published by The Sydney Morning Herald, with Kelly describing the song as "a lament in the form of a lullaby. Paradoxically, it can also be heard as a wake up call - a critique of the widespread attitude amongst humans that we are the most important life form on the planet."[208]
In September 2021, Kelly released a song inspired by
In July 2023, Kelly released a book and song titled, "Khawaja", inspired by Usman Khawaja.[210]
In November 2023, Kelly was inducted into the South Australian Music Awards Hall of Fame.[211]
Musical style and songwriting
Paul Kelly has been acknowledged as one of Australia's best singer-songwriters.[212] His music style has ranged from bluegrass to studio-oriented dub reggae, but his core output comfortably straddles folk, rock, and country.[51][213] His lyrics capture Australia's vastness both in culture and landscape; he has chronicled life about him for over 30 years and is described as the poet laureate of Australia.[14][30] According to music writer Glenn A. Baker, his Australian-ness may be a reason Kelly has not achieved international success.[19] David Fricke from Rolling Stone calls Kelly "one of the finest songwriters I have ever heard, Australian or otherwise."[1]
Fellow songwriter Neil Finn (Crowded House) has said, "There is something unique and powerful about the way Kelly mixes up everyday detail with the big issues of life, death, love and struggle – not a trace of pretence or fakery in there".[19] Ross Clelland, writing for Rolling Stone, described Kelly: "[W]hile he was (rightly) lauded for his ability to sing of injustice without ranting, or deal with the darker sides of human nature non-judgementally, often overlooked was the fact he could write a damn fine melodic hook to go with those words".[214] Tim Freedman (The Whitlams) acknowledges Kelly, Peter Garrett (Midnight Oil), and John Schumann (Redgum) as inspiring him by "[furnishing] our suburbs with our own myths and social history".[215] However, Kelly has been quoted as saying "Song writing is mysterious to me. I still feel like a total beginner. I don't feel like I have got it nailed yet".[2][216] In 2007 Kelly donated his 'Lee Oskar' harmonica to the Sydney Powerhouse Museum. The museum's statement of significance cites Kelly's talent as a songwriter, his distinctive voice, and his harmonica playing, particularly on Live, May 1992.[212]
Kelly described his songwriting as "a scavenging art, a desperate act. For me it's a bit from here, a bit from there, fumbling around, never quite knowing what you're doing ... Song writing is like a way of feeling connected to mystery."[33] He has resisted the label of 'storyteller' and insists that his songs are not strictly autobiographical; "they come from imagining someone in a particular situation. Sometimes a sequence of events happens which makes it more a story, but other times it's just that situation".[26] Sometimes the same character is found in different songs, such as in "To Her Door", "Love Never Runs on Time", and "How to Make Gravy".[26]
Kelly has also provided songs for many other artists, tailoring them to their particular vocal range. Women at the Well (2002) had 14 female artists record his songs in tribute.
Kelly has written songs with and for numerous artists, including Mick Thomas, Geyer, Kate Ceberano, Vika and Linda Bull, Nick Cave, Nick Barker, Kasey Chambers, Yothu Yindi, Archie Roach, Gyan, Monique Brumby, Kelly Willis, Missy Higgins, and Troy Cassar-Daley.[26] He has described how some songs he writes are suited to other vocal ranges. "Quite often, I'm trying to write a certain kind of song and it's more ambitious than what my voice will get to. That's how I started writing songs with other people in mind".[219] Kelly and Carmody's "From Little Things Big Things Grow" was analysed by Sydney University's Linguistics professor James R Martin. "[They] render the story as a narrative ... with the familiar Orientation, Complication, Evaluation, Resolution and Coda staging". Martin finds that Kelly and Carmody made the point that when people exert their rights with support from friends, they may defeat those with prestige.[220]
Kelly understands that co-writing with other songwriters lends power to his songs. "You often write songs with collaborators that you would never write by yourself. It's a way of dragging a song out of you that you wouldn't have come up with".[26] One of his collaborators, Linda Bull, described Kelly's process: they would start with a simple chat. "We'd just chuck ideas around and he'd pick the best bits. He'd take all the bluntness and crudeness out of it and make it beautiful; that's his magic ... It's conversations that you have everyday [sic]".[19] Forster summarised his 2009 review of Kelly's compilation, Songs from the South, with "[his songs] sound easy and approachable ... Then you think: If the songs are so simple and the ideas behind them so clear, why aren't more people writing like Paul Kelly and sounding as good as he does?"[63] In 2010 Carmody and Kelly's "From Little Things Big Things Grow" was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia Registry.[221]
Personal life
Kelly's first marriage (1980–84) was to Hilary Brown; the couple had a son, Declan, who later worked as a radio presenter on 3RRR's Against the Arctic from 2006.[15][19] As of 2007, he was a DJ around Melbourne and played the drums.[222] For Paul Kelly: Stories of Me, Declan recalled his feelings whenever he hears "When I First Met Your Ma", which describes Kelly's courtship of Hilary Brown.[198] Brown remembered "songs written especially for and about her" but also about other women, she quipped "There are too many girls out there! One for every song!"[198]
Kelly's second marriage (1993–2001) was to actress Kaarin Fairfax.[72] The Monthly's Richard Guilliatt travelled with Kelly, his band and "his new love and future wife, the diminutive" Fairfax on a section of the group's US tour prior to the release of Under the Sun.[37] The couple have two daughters, Madeleine and Memphis.[15] From 1989 to 1992, Fairfax supplied backing vocals on tracks by Paul Kelly and the Messengers. In 1990, as Mary-Jo Starr, a country music artist, Fairfax released three singles and an album called Too Many Movies. Memphis Kelly starred alongside her parents in the Rachel Perkins short film One Night the Moon (2001) for which Paul Kelly composed the score.[15][107] After the couple separated in 2001, Madeleine and Memphis stayed with Fairfax, but Kelly maintained contact with his daughters.[19] In 2010, Madeleine and Memphis formed a pop indie trio, Wishful, with Sam Humphrey; they were later joined by Harley Hamer and Caleb Williams. In March 2014, Wishful performed at the Port Fairy Folk Festival.[223]
Kelly was in a relationship with Sian Prior, a journalist, university lecturer and opera singer, from 2002 to 2011.[19][138] They met when Kelly was interviewed on her Sunday Arts ABC radio program.[19] Kelly wrote "You're 39, You're Beautiful and You're Mine" for Prior who was already 40 by the time he finished.[19] Prior has played clarinet and provided backing vocals on some of Kelly's songs, as well as with the Stardust Five.[224] She has performed live with Kelly on several occasions, including clarinet on six tracks of his A – Z Recordings boxed set.[225][226][227]
In his memoir, Kelly credited Prior with inspiring him to give up his long-term heroin addiction, "I got lucky, I met a woman who said: 'It's me or it'. She gave me the number of a counsellor ... I thought about 'it' every day for a long time. Less now".[228] The couple had separated during the making of Kelly's biopic, however the separation is not mentioned and Prior is not interviewed in the film.[197][198] According to Prior after a date in 2011, "[we] came home. He sat on the bed. 'I've decided I want to be single again,' he told her. 'Yes, I have been with other women.'"[229] The split occurred after she had filmed her interview and "after the breakup, [she] requested the footage not be used. Her presence in Kelly's life is as a footnote in the credits. It's as if she was never there."[229]
Siân Darling became Kelly's partner. They met in 2014 performing in a theatre show called Funeral. The couple continue to live and work together from their St Kilda base. Darling is an artist, activist, curator and producer and has been working on Kelly's professional management team since 2018.[citation needed] Her influence on Kelly's work is noted in the Stuart Coupe biography. Darling is the subject of several songs and has produced and directed some of Kelly's music videos: "With the One I Love", "Sleep Australia Sleep" and "When We're Both Old and Mad". Darling produced the 2020 re-issue version of Carmody's album Cannot Buy My Soul.[230]
Kelly's brother, Martin, is the father of Dan Kelly, a singer-guitarist.[231] Dan has performed with his uncle on several of Kelly's albums, including Ways and Means, as a member of Paul Kelly and the Boon Companions, and on Stolen Apples. Dan and Paul were both members of Stardust Five, which released Stardust Five.
Paul Kelly's younger sister, Mary Jo Kelly, is a Melbourne-based pianist who performed with him on the track "South of Germany" for Paul Kelly Live at the Athenaeum, May 1992 (1992).[136] She has performed in Latin bands and worked as a music teacher at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School.[19][20] Mary Jo provided piano on Archie Roach's album Charcoal Lane (1990), which was produced by Kelly and Connolly.[232][233]
Awards and recognition
Paul Kelly has won several awards, including 17
In August 2022, the
Bibliography
Paul Kelly has written, co-written or edited the following:[84][240]
- Kelly, Paul; Paine, Richard (1990). Songs [musical score]. Sydney: Wise. ISBN 978-0-949785-27-5.
- Kelly, Paul; Paine, Richard (1993). Songs. Book two [musical score]. Sydney: Wise. ISBN 978-0-949785-31-2.
- Kelly, Paul (29 September 1993). Lyrics. Pymble, New South Wales: Angus & Robertson. ISBN 978-0-207-18221-1.
- ISBN 978-0-86819-380-9.
- Kelly, Paul (2004) [1999]. Don't start me talking: lyrics 1984–2004 (2nd ed.). St Leonards, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-1-86508-105-2.
- Kelly, Paul; Judith, Kate; National Educational Advancement Programs (2005). Don't start me talking: lyrics 1984–2004. Carlton, Victoria: National Educational Advancement Programs (NEAP). ISBN 978-1-86478-099-4.
- Kelly, Paul; ISBN 978-0-9805643-1-0.
- Kelly, Paul (21 September 2010). How to Make Gravy. Camberwell, Vic: Penguin Books (Australia). ISBN 978-1-926428-22-2.
- Kelly, Paul (19 November 2019). Love Is Strong As Death: Poems Chosen by Paul Kelly. Camberwell, Vic: Penguin Books (Australia). ISBN 978-1-760892-68-5.
Discography
Studio albums
- Talk (with the Dots) (1981)
- Manila (with the Dots) (1982)
- Post (1985)
- Gossip (with the Coloured Girls) (1986)
- Under the Sun (with the Coloured Girls) (1987)
- So Much Water So Close to Home (with the Messengers) (1989)
- Comedy (with The Messengers) (1991)
- Hidden Things (with The Messengers) (1992)
- Wanted Man (1994)
- Deeper Water (1995)
- Words and Music (1998)
- Smoke (with Uncle Bill) (1999)
- Professor Ratbaggy (with Professor Ratbaggy) (1999)
- ...Nothing but a Dream (2001)
- Ways & Means (2004)
- Foggy Highway (with The Stormwater Boys) (2005)
- Stardust Five (with Stardust Five) (2006)
- Stolen Apples (2007)
- Spring and Fall (2012)
- The Merri Soul Sessions (with Vika and Linda Bull, Dan Sultan, Kira Puru and Clairy Browne) (2014)
- Seven Sonnets and a Song (2016)
- Death's Dateless Night (with Charlie Owen) (2016)
- Life Is Fine (2017)
- Nature (2018)
- Seraphim Trio) (2019)
- Forty Days (2020)
- Please Leave Your Light On[241] (with Paul Grabowsky) (2020)
- Paul Kelly's Christmas Train (2021)
Films
See also
Notes
- ^ Award wins mentioned here are:
- Lantana award win for 'Best Original Soundtrack' at the ARIA Music Awards of 2002.[70][108] The award is shared with fellow composers and performers, Stephen Hadley, Bruce Haymes, Peter Luscombe and Shane O'Mara.[109] All were members of Paul Kelly Band and, except for O'Mara, were also members of Professor Ratbaggy.[34][104]
- One Night the Moon award win for 'Open Craft Award' at the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards in 2001.[110] The award is shared with fellow composers and performers Mairead Hannan and Kev Carmody.[110]
- One Night the Moon award win for 'Best Soundtrack Album' at the APRA Awards of 2002, Screen Music Awards presented by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australian Guild of Screen Composers.[111][112] The award is shared with fellow composers and performers, Mairead Hannan, Carmody, John Romeril, Deirdre Hannan, Alice Garner.[111][113]
- One Night the Moon award win for 'Best Music Score' at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards of 2002. The award is shared with Mairead Hannan and Carmody.[114][115]
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The album has now been refreshed with a 2020 edition, produced by Sian Darling, with the original 32 tracks, plus an additional six new versions
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External links
- Official website
- "From Little Things Big Things Grow" Audio sample and description at Australian Screen.
- Paul Kelly at IMDb