Musician and singer-songwriter Colin Hay joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about his Beatles influences, new album "Now and the Evermore" (on which Ringo Starr plays drums for the title track) and much more on "Everything Fab Four," a podcast co-produced by me and Womack (a music scholar who also writes about pop music for Salon) and distributed by Salon.
Hay rose to fame as the lead singer and guitarist of Australian rock band Men at Work, the group behind such '80s hits as "Who Can It Be Now?," "Down Under" and "Overkill." Growing up in Scotland, he was exposed to music through the local record shop owned by his parents. Hay says his biggest regret was giving up the piano as a child, but he took up guitar at age 12 and began to learn some of the chords from Beatles songs such as "She Loves You."
