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  • 6/2/2025
Following the Sunnyboys’ enigmatic frontman Jeremy Oxley from the band’s origins, breakthrough success and his subse | dG1fXzFNVDl1Z19YbEk
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00:00When I was young, I had to find answers to everything. Answers to the meaning of
00:13life. I was trying to find out what the right thing to do was.
00:19Sonny Boys are a group from Sydney and they're going to do really really big
00:24business. Here they are Sonny Boys, they speak for themselves alone with you.
00:30We can lock away the bad memories together.
00:33Peter wanted the success for Jeremy and Jeremy wanted to do it for Pete.
00:40Jeremy became internalized. He seemed to be unhappy but not a crying,
00:48weeping unhappy but just in a sort of scared way. It was always that he just wanted to withdraw so
00:56he could never explain what was actually happening.
01:00He said you think people are talking about you behind your back. I said I know they're
01:04talking about me behind my back and the doctor couldn't believe that and he said I'm sorry
01:11you've got schizophrenia you'll be on medication for the rest of your life. That's what he said to me.
01:15It was like a wasp after its nest has been disturbed. It was just off my head.
01:27He was just out of touch with reality. He was sort of alone and wanted to be alone and there seemed to
01:37do nothing we could do about it. He needs to meet you know a wonderful girl that's a nurse that can
01:44look after him you know and then all of a sudden you know she drops down. She fell from heaven.
01:52I thought I was a really good guy. You are. But I'm not a schizophrenic. Yeah you are but that
01:58doesn't make you a bad person. You're I think you're a schizophrenic. I think it takes one to
02:04no one. What a schizophrenic thing to say. Put the chocolate down. He's overweight. He's diabetic and
02:12now having these unusual heart rhythms.
02:16Do you reckon the Sonny Boys could play together though? These days after being so old? Oh yeah.
02:28But it'd be you know you'd really need to want to do it. See once you go into the public
02:34you've got to make sure that you're comfortable doing that and if you don't if you're not then
02:39you won't have a very nice time and it wouldn't be very good. Come on baby.
02:43I know what you want now. Yeah well it was the Sonny Boys against the world when we first started
02:54and the world passed through us and now we're ready to rock and roll again.

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