Bobtalk

February 12, 1986
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Sydney Entertainment Centre
Concert

Thank you, all right. We have a very special friend here tonight whose birthday is today. So if you all wanna help me out here, I want to sing Happy Birthday to my very special friend. Her name is Queen Esther. So, you know Happy Birthday. You know how it goes. It goes like this. (sings Happy Birthday) <inaudible>. Anyway, I had to do that, because I forgot to get her a birthday present.

Thank you. Thank you. Lets have some light up here. A little bit more light. All right, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are gonna play a few more songs for you so give 'em a warm hand. (after Ballad Of A Thin Man)

<inaudible> and she is here right here all the way from the shores of the USA. (before Knockin' On Heaven's Door)

All right, we're gonna try something different here. Here's something I wrote a while back, it’s all about the space program. I suppose you heard about this tragedy, right? I don’t need to tell you it really was a tragedy. It was a tragedy , it really was a tragedy. You see, these people had no business going up there. Like, there's not enough problems on Earth to solve? So I wanna dedicate this song to all those poor people, who were fooled into going up there. (before License To Kill)

All right, thank you. Thank you very much. Another hand for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. On the keyboards, Benmont Tench. On the drums, Stan Lynch. You can do better than that. Playing the bass, Howie Epstein. You can clap louder than that. On the guitar, Mike Campbell. And on, the center, Tom Petty himself. You know my singing girls are over there. I know you know who they are. It’s now that time ... (loud calls from the audience) Shut up! Shut up! Anyway it's that time of the night when we must part company. Anyway I wanna sing you a song about my hero. Everybody's got a hero, right? You know back in the States Ronald Reagan is a big hero to a lot of people. Sylvester Stallone he's also a hero. Ever heard of him? Or over here maybe Mad Max is a hero? Yeah we got a lot of heroes over in the United States at the moment. Michael Jackson, he's one of the biggest. And my good friend Bruce Springsteen. He's turned into quite a hero these days. I'll tell you something. I don't care nothing about none of these people. I got a different hero. He might have lived a long time ago, but you know what was good yesterday is still good today. He's the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. I don't know if these current heroes are gonna be. (before In The Garden)

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