Man still at work: Colin Hay unplugs for latest songs

Published March 31, 2009 4:00am ET



You know the kid smile, the crooked eyebrow and the voice, but unless you’ve tuned in to the music of Colin Hay in the past few years, you don’t know his music.

Sure, Hay — the former front man of ’80s mega-pop band “Men at Work” — still plays the hits that he made famous, including “Down Under” and “Who Can It Be Now,” plus plenty of new tunes. But the post-Men At Work difference is that Hay is now master of his own destiny, playing his own work — including several famous songs — the way he wrote them. That means they’re a bit slower, in different keys, and much darker.

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