The ‘agonisingly beautiful’ song from 1968’s Astral Weeks inspired the Hunters & Collectors singer to write love songs – and continues to taunt him
In this new Guardian Australia series, musicians share their favourite songs, what makes them perfect and how they shaped their lives
A rush of memory and I’m gone. Suddenly it’s 1986 and I’m driving the Pacific Highway with her, somewhere south of Lennox Heads, in a 58 Studebaker coupé, top down, the smell of wood smoke, clifftop visions of the great South Pacific pearl and a roadside kiss, lost in the arms of a beautiful girl …Get a grip, Seymour. Euphoria is dangerous. It leads to places, triggers uncouplings, broken hearts, messiness.
But the truth of it lies elsewhere. It is the sum of all parts that gives songs the power to change us, to lure us towards some heightened state. We follow willingly.has passed, like talismans to a perfect life they could never live but wish they had. I clung to Sweet Thing through the catastrophic London bombings of 1982, when Hunters & Collectors atrophied and were almost lost. I returned to Australia with the secret belief that I too could write a love song as eloquent and truthful. A song that would rise above my circumstances.
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