
He looks like Australia’s answer to Mills & Boon. The video opens with John standing there, long blond 80s hair flowing, his breezy shirt open to the third button, showcasing his sweat-shined chest. It was Farnham in 1989 performing to a massive crowd. My grandmother was a cleaner, my mother was a cleaner, and then I was too (also the song is terrible).īut none of that matters any longer, because the algorithm that knows me better than I know myself showed me an important video. It didn’t help that, growing up, the only song of Farnham’s I really knew was Sadie (The Cleaning Lady). Before now I’d always taken my dad’s side, unimpressed with Whispering Jack, more impressed by Willie Nelson. Namely, that John Farnham absolutely rocks.

Now that I’m 40 I have discovered yet another thing my mother was right about.
